{{Short description|Place in Tokyo, Japan}}thumb|Customers lined up to get tickets for the ramen shops, 2019 '''Ramen Street''' is an area in the underground mall of the Tokyo Station railway station's Yaesu side that has eight restaurants specializing in ramen dishes.<ref name="Russell 2013"/><ref name="Rosenbloom 2015"/><ref name="SE-Rokurinsha 2017"/><ref name="Serious Eats 2017"/> Some of the restaurants at Ramen Street include Rokurinsha, which specializes in ''tsukemen'', Kanisenmon Keisuke, specializing in crab ramen dishes, and Nidaime Keisuke Ebi Soba Gaiden, specializing in prawn ramen dishes.
An unrelated, unofficially-named "Ramen Street" also exists on the top floor of Kyōto Station in Kyōto.<ref name="Siese 2016"/>
==Overview== Tokyo Station is located in the Marunouchi business district of Tokyo, Japan, and Ramen Street is located on the basement floor of the underground mall.<ref name="SE-Rokurinsha 2017"/><ref name="Swinnerton 2012"/><ref name="WLS Dolinsky 2016"/> Tokyo station also has an area called "Kitchen Street" that purveys foods.<ref name="Goode 2014"/>
===Restaurants=== [[File:Tsukemen at a Tokyo restaurant.jpg|thumb|''Tsukemen'' at a Rokurinsha restaurant in Tokyo]] As of January 2017, eight ramen restaurants are located at Ramen Street,<ref name="Russell 2013"/><ref>Crossley-Baxter, Lily (January 31, 2017). [https://tokyocheapo.com/food-and-drink/tokyo-ramen-street/ "Tokyo Ramen Street – A One-Stop Noodle Shop"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304125830/https://tokyocheapo.com/food-and-drink/tokyo-ramen-street/ |date=2017-03-04 }}. Tokyo Cheapo.</ref> and in 2011 it had four restaurants.<ref name="Richmond Dodd 2011"/> All restaurants use a ticketing system, where consumers purchase a ticket from a central vending machine to select their order, after which the ticket is given to wait staff to order food.<ref name="Russell 2013"/><ref name="Silverstein 2013"/> In 2013, prices varied between approximately 850–1000 yen.<ref name="Silverstein 2013"/> The restaurants at Ramen Street serve a great deal of commuters,<ref name="Russell 2013"/><ref name="Silverstein 2013"/> along with general travelers and train company personnel.<ref name="WLS Dolinsky 2016"/>
Rokurinsha restaurant is one of the most popular restaurants at Ramen Street, and sometimes has long lines of people waiting to be served that overflows outside of the restaurant, with waiting times that can sometimes range from 40–60 minutes.<ref name="Rosenbloom 2015"/><ref name="SE-Rokurinsha 2017"/><ref name="Swinnerton 2012"/> Rokurinsha is well-known for specializing in ''tsukemen'', a dish in Japanese cuisine consisting of separate servings of noodles and soup or broth, whereby the noodles are dipped in the soup.<ref name="Goode 2014"/><ref name="Quek 2016"/>
Other restaurants at Ramen Street include Kanisenmon Keisuke, which specializes in crab-based ramen dishes (カニ専門 ''kani senmon'' "specializing in crab"), Nidaime Keisuke Ebi Soba Gaiden, which opened in 2009 and specializes in prawn-based ramen dishes, and Kagari.<ref name="Silverstein 2013"/><ref name="Quek 2016"/><ref name="Swinnerton 2016"/>
==See also== {{portal|Food|Tokyo}} * Food court * Food hall * List of noodle restaurants * Ramen shop * Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Museum
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}}</ref> <ref name="WLS Dolinsky 2016">{{cite web | author=WLS | last2=Dolinsky | first2=Steve | title=ABC7's Steve Dolinsky eats his way through Japan | website=ABC7 Chicago | date=February 18, 2016 | url=http://abc7chicago.com/1205019/ | accessdate=February 22, 2017 | archive-date=February 23, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223042445/http://abc7chicago.com/1205019/ | url-status=live }}</ref> }}
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