No. 24 in the world · November 2026

Honke Daiichi-Asahi

Near Kyoto Station · Kyoto, Japan

The one bowl to order

The tokusei ramen: shoyu-pork broth with extra sliced pork and green onions

The line to expect: There's nearly always a line, but it's fast; it opens early and closes late.

Kyoto's best-known shoyu ramen, by the station since the 1950s; a pork-and-soy broth with a mountain of Kujo green onions.

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Shoyu ramen with chicken broth and soy tare

4 hr broth (30 min hands-on), 20 min to serve · 4 bowls. Tokyo's oldest ramen: a clear chicken and pork broth, seasoned in the bowl with a soy tare. Make the broth and tare a day ahead and a bowl takes ten minutes.

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