Introducing Three Shops Offering Summer-Only Menus
Menkui Wanderer（麺喰ワンダラー）
Column 2025.08.08 Ippudo / Dried Dried Sardine Shop / Tachikawa Masimasi
01″Ippudo(一風堂)” (Available at 22 locations from August 5th)
A seafood broth is combined with beef stock and Ippudo’s pork bone broth to add richness. The overall flavor is brought together with sweet soy sauce and green onion oil, and the dish is served chilled with ice. The noodles are medium-thick, hand-kneaded, and curly.
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02.”Irikoya(いりこ屋)” (Oimachi Sta.)
This new ramen shop won first place in the Niboshi (dried fish = Iriko) category at the industry’s most prestigious “TRY Ramen Awards.(Tokyo Ramen of the Year)” This new chilled ramen was released on August 1st. The fried tofu on top is surprisingly delicious. If you want to add more, you can purchase the “Kitsune(fried tofu)” topping. The grated ginger (photo top right) that comes with the ramen adds a refreshing flavor later on.
03 “Tachikawa Masimasi(立川マシマシ)” (Tachikawa Sta.)
Here’s a popular summer menu item from “Tachikawa Masimasi,” a hearty ramen chain with multiple locations. Note that even the small noodle portion is 300g. The sweet and sour sauce and mayonnaise sauce combine to create a unique chilled Chinese noodle dish. Topped with richly seasoned pork belly, cucumber, and ginger, it’s quite an amazing chilled Chinese noodle dish.
Shop Information
01.Ippudo Gotanda East Exit Branch(一風堂 五反田東口店) Official Information
2F Kitahara Building, 1-14-14 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0022
02.Irikoya, Oimachi Stand-Up Chinese Noodles(大井町立食い中華蕎麦 いりこ屋) Official Information
3-13 Higashioi, 5-chome, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0011
03.Tachikawa Masimasi Tachikawa Main Branch(立川マシマシ 立川総本店) Official Information
1F Ramen Tamakan, 1-2-16 Nishiki-cho, Tachikawa-shi, Tokyo 190-0022
Autor of this article
■Hiroshi Osaki (大崎 裕史); Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ramen Databank Co., Ltd. One of the founders of the Japan Ramen Association. Executive Committee Chairman of the Tokyo Ramen Festa. Born in 1959 in Aizu, the land of ramen. While working at an advertising agency, he launched the ramen information site “Tokyo Ramen Shops” in 1995. Founded Ramen Databank Co., Ltd. in 2005. Became chairman of the board of directors in 2011. He has appeared in many magazines and on television as “the man who calls himself the man who has eaten the most ramen in Japan” (as of the end of June 2024, he has eaten about 14,000 ramen shops and about 29,000 bowls). His books include “Muteki no Ramenron” (The Invincible Ramen Theory) (Kodansha Shinsho) and “Nihon Ramen Hishi(Japan Ramen Hidden Story)” (Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing).