Tokyo Ramen Tasting Tour with 6 Mini Bowls at 3 Ramen Shops
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Join Tokyo's only Ramen Tasting Tour (with mini bowls, each 1/4 the size of full bowls)! You'll taste 6 wildly different types of delicious ramen at 3 award-winning ramen shops. You'll even get to choose the 6 ramen from 11-12 types, via fun, customizable menus. Each ramen boasts unique flavors - whether a light, salt-based chicken ramen or a creamy pork bone ramen. Furthermore, you'll learn all about ramen during the 3 hours - its history and future, how it's prepared, and how to eat it like a true local. * The tour starts in Shibuya *OR* Shinjuku *OR* Ueno and ends in Ebisu, Akasaka-Mitsuke, or Ueno. * Please double check your booked route: each meeting point is different (SHIBUYA, SHINJUKU, UENO) * All ramen broths contain chicken, pork, and fish. For vegans or vegetarians, please book our Vegan / Vegetarian Ramen Tasting Tour. * The tour involves a good amount of walking (approximately 3 kilometers, or 1.86 miles) and isn't recommended for people with a low level of fitness.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Infants can join for free but will share food with other group members. If you’d like them to have their own portions, just let us know and we’ll be happy to arrange it for an additional cost.
Reviews(145)
We had a wonderful food tour with Makayla. She did a wonderful job of explaining the history of not just Ramen but food in Tokyo in a way we weren’t even aware we were learning. Hee conversational and friendly approach to being a food tour guide makes her exceptional in a world filled with many, many food tour options.
We did a ramen tour with Annie and it was a highlight of our trip. She explained things clearly, was friendly, answered all of our questions, handled everything including skipping the line! We had a great time.
I loved this tour and our tour guide, Sahori was so energetic and passionate! The ramen portions were generous too!
We went to 3 different locations to taste 2 ramen dishes at each spot. The tour is long; we took the train to get to one spot. Each dish was a generous size; bring your appetite. Bunga, our guide was friendly and extremely knowledgeable about ramen. Great time!
Olivier was a awsome host!! It was our first night inTokyo and we were super tired but this was a great introduction to authentic Ramen dishes. Olivier was extremely knowledgeable about the different ingredients and flovors of all of the tastings. We would definately recommend this tour!
The impressive thing about this tour is that we really got to taste 6 different types of ramen (we had a choice of 12 to choose from). 3 stops, two types of ramen at each stop. It was tsukemen at the 3rd stop. Each ramen tasted different from the others, so it was a real variety. Ever one was tasty. We were clearly eating at real ramen shops that locals frequent, not tourist traps. Going for good walk between each restaurant was a good idea. Bill was an excellent guide.
The guide (Sahali) was WONDERFUL...and who knew that ramen came in so many flavors and forms? An awesome experience.
Sahori is energetic, expressive, and knowledgeable on all things ramen. Goes out of her way to go beyond. I think she even took a partial shift at one of the ramen shops when other customers thought she worked there and she was passing orders back to the workers (maybe I misread the situation). Talk about dedication. When signing up for this, part of me thought this would be gimicky and we would be going to chain restaurants, but no, these were indeed small local shops allowing us to try small portions as part of this tour. The options of types of ramens were impressive. 3 shops, 12 different potentials (with you getting 6 mini bowls throughout the tour or 1.5 fulls bowls of ramen aggregated). You can also order extras like beer for a surcharge if you want (It was only like 400 yen). You also get to see more of the city. You start in the heart of Shibuya and work your way to the outskirts which I liked. Overall, great tour, would recommend to anyone that likes ramen.
We had a ramen tour with the 5am Ramen Tour company and our guide Oliver. Oliver was fantastic. He was very personable and social explaining the history and components of ramen. We went to two ramen stores both with different styles of ramen, the ramen stores were nothing short of mouth watering. Oliver also showed us Shinjuku City and explained the inner workings along with the places to be. I recommend 5am ramen and our tour guide Oliver to anyone who wishes to have a superb and engaging time tasting the greatest ramen tokyo has to offer.
This was a fantastic experience. It ended up being one-on-one, which made it feel very relaxed and personal. We visited three very different ramen spots, all excellent, with some background and history on each style. The portions are on the smaller side, which works well—you can try more if you come hungry. Great conversation throughout, and a really enjoyable way to spend the evening in Shibuya. Highly recommend.
