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Ramen Tasting Tour: Tokyo's Unique Flavors
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Bunkyo City
Embark on Tokyo’s first ever Ramen Tasting Tour and explore the city’s award-winning ramen shops. Taste 6 unique mini bowls of ramen, learn about its history, and experience the flavors of light chicken ramen to creamy pork bone ramen.
Embark on Tokyo’s first ever Ramen Tasting Tour and explore the city’s award-winning ramen shops. Taste 6 unique mini bowls of ramen, learn about its history, and experience the flavors of light chicken ramen to creamy pork bone ramen.
Duration:
3 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Shibuya Crossing - Known as the “Scramble Crossing,” Shibuya is the busiest intersection globally!
- Shibuya Crossing - Known as the “Scramble Crossing,” Shibuya is the busiest intersection globally!
What's Included
- Local guide
- Lunch
- Food tasting
- Local guide
- Lunch
- Food tasting
What's Not Included
- Transportation to/from attractions
- Transportation to/from attractions
Additional Information
Experience Tokyo’s exclusive Ramen Tasting Tour, featuring mini bowls that are a quarter of the size of regular ones!
Savor six distinct varieties of delectable ramen at three renowned ramen establishments. Participants can select their six ramen choices from a menu offering 11-12 different types, ensuring a fun and personalized experience. Each ramen…
Experience Tokyo’s exclusive Ramen Tasting Tour, featuring mini bowls that are a quarter of the size of regular ones!
Savor six distinct varieties of delectable ramen at three renowned ramen establishments. Participants can select their six ramen choices from a menu offering 11-12 different types, ensuring a fun and personalized experience. Each ramen presents unique flavors, ranging from a light, salt-based chicken ramen to a rich, creamy pork bone ramen.
Additionally, during the three-hour tour, participants will gain insights into ramen’s history and future, its preparation methods, and the art of eating it like a local.
- The tour commences in Shibuya, Shinjuku, or Ueno and concludes in Ebisu, Akasaka-Mitsuke, or Ueno.
- Please verify your booked route as each starting point differs (SHIBUYA, SHINJUKU, UENO).
- All ramen broths include chicken, pork, and fish. For vegan or vegetarian options, please book our Vegan / Vegetarian Ramen Tasting Tour.
- The tour includes a significant amount of walking (approximately 3 kilometers or 1.86 miles) and is not recommended for those with low fitness levels.
- 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.
Location
Akafudado Nezuten
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Gylm2016
May 24, 2026
Excellent variety of excellent ramen - 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.
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684categ
May 23, 2026
Incredibly enthusiastic guide...incredible ramen - The guide (Sahali) was WONDERFUL...and who knew that ramen came in so many flavors and forms? An awesome experience.
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Jacob_s
May 8, 2026
Slurping Through Shibuya with the Ramen Whisperer - 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.
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Gavin
May 7, 2026
5am Ramen Tour - 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.
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Jana_s
Apr 18, 2026
Fantastic 1:1 ramen experience with great variety - 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.
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Andrea_t
Apr 18, 2026
Very fun walking through... - Very fun walking through streets of Tokyo to places you would not know to go and trying all types of ramen. Brian was our guide and did a great job explaining the history of ramen. A great tour for the ramen lovers.
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Taina_v
Apr 11, 2026
Ramen and la carte - Makayla was an guide ✨️ we learned so much about the history of Ramen and the different types, so much so my partner and I learned which one was our favorite for future trips! The lortions were small thay we were able to taste each place without feeling too full and ever dish had its unique flavor and personality. She had so much passion for food and the for the area, we got to explore so much of Shinjuku because of her. I absolutely loved her and would come back again for any other tour with her ❤️
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Clarehq7720yk
Apr 1, 2026
So much delicious ramen! - We absolutely loved our tour with Sara. Delicious ramen, great company, and we learnt about the history of ramen too. Definitely recommend if you're looking for a fun foodie night out
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Rhondaa646
Mar 30, 2026
Ramen joy! - Wow! This was such a wonderful experience. My son and I visited three ramen shops and tried 12 exquisite ramens (4 smaller bowls at each stop). Our guide Makayla was fantastic. She knew her stuff, giving detailed descriptions of each bowl (geographical influence, signature ingredients, spice levels, etc.). She was also incredibly personable, friendly and fluent in Japanese and English (native Californian but speaking Japanese since the age of 8). Makayla would be perfect for both the ramen connoisseur or someone wanting an introduction to Japanese food culture. We finished our tour very satisfied. My son and I travelall over the world. This was one of the best food tours we’ve ever done.
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Danielle_w
Mar 14, 2026
My family and I had a... - My family and I had a great time! It was really cool getting to try so many types of ramen in one outing - really allows you to compare and experience the differences in the various ramen styles/flavors. We also learned a ton! Our guide Brian was so knowledgeable, engaging, and personable - we had a lot of fun chatting and exploring the shibuya area with him. Highly recommend!!
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