Rokurinsha Tokyo Ramen Street

Rokurinsha is the most famous tsukemen shop on Tokyo Ramen Street, known for queues of 30 to 60 minutes at lunch and consistent rankings at the top of Tokyo's tsukemen lists since opening here in 2009. The dining room is a bright, tight space built around an L-shaped counter and a small open kitchen — pure no-frills ramen-shop atmosphere where staff call out orders and turn seats fast. The signature dish is an ultra-rich double-broth tsukemen: pork and chicken bones simmered for roughly 13 hours together with niboshi, smoked mackerel and bonito, served alongside thick, chewy wheat noodles that are eaten cold and dipped bite by bite into the dense sauce. Diners finish with wari-jiru, a light yuzu-and-fish-stock broth poured into the leftover sauce to drink as soup. A lighter, soy-sauce-based morning tsukemen is also offered.