Visiting the Koyama Ramen Shop

[rakko]

Following my post (here) about my friends and I visiting the ramen shop, many people asked me for more information about getting there.

So I've finally put this post together to add a little from my experiences to the information already circulating on the net from other fans. It was thanks to other fan reports that we were able to find our way there.







So as people probably already know, it's the Ryutaro Ramen Shop lcoated in Sobudai-mae and they're open Monday to Saturday from 7pm (and you can see this information on the menu along with the phone number)

This is the English version of the menu:




Getting to Sobudai-mae





Obviously the train connections you'll need to make will depend on where you're starting out from.

Sobudai-mae is on the Odakyu-Odawara Line (小田急小田原線) which runs from Shinjuku to Odawara.

The ramen shop is marked with the star on the left.



The night my friends and I went, we were coming from Odawara after a day trip to Mt Fuji. But afterwards, to get back to our hotel in Tokyo we took the Local line to Machida and then changed to the Odakyu Odawara Line Exp. to Shinjuku.

My major recommendation though is that you plan your excursion with the Hyperdia website:

Just click on the English link in the top left hand corner of the page and then enter your starting point and SOBUDAIMAE (it took me a few tries to work out what spelling the website was looking for). It will offer you a variety of routes and connections to any place you're looking to get, just play around with the travel times till you find an option with the least amount of sections.

I always use this site extensively for any trip to Japan, especially last time when we were needing to get from Tokyo to Sendai and Osaka to Fukui for NEWS concerts, as well as leaving our organised day trip in Odawara and heading back to Tokyo via Sobudai-mae.


Approaching our destination. The display inside the train telling us it's the next stop (in hiragana, kanji and romaji).





When you reach the station, take the North Exit





Once down on the street it's very close by. This photo is taken from the station and the restaurant sign is the yellow one on the right under the rainbow sign.




Getting closer ...



And looking back to the staion





Before our trip I also played around with finding the location on Google Street View, where you can see that you just head in under the sign and the restaurant is at the back of the alcove.







We were lucky the night we went that there was no queue, in fact there were only a couple of people inside eating. So we just headed to the back. It definitely started to fill up as time passed but there was still no queue when we left after a couple of hours.

So here are a couple of final pics from inside (pics of our food can be found in my earlier post).





 

Comments

[clutzynew.livejournal.com]

sdkfjsdlkfj;aslkdjf yay!!! hhehehehehhe IF i ever go, i will go there =DDD heheheh and bring a keychain with my flag on it? (beaver maybe?)

[bellemainec.livejournal.com]

great post, inala my dear! MMMMMM ramen.

[neo-hippie-cat.livejournal.com]

they have an english menu! cool! haha!
i wanna eat an authentic ramen :)

[haruka21.livejournal.com]

But were you homeless in Sobudai-mae? I think not!

[dw9lives.livejournal.com]

this post never showed up on my flist!! D:

i wanna go to the restaurant... first, I gotta get to Japan! lol.

[inala.livejournal.com]

oops I think I messed up the date. I was working on it before I actually made it public. So I've moved the date forward now but it's probably too late.

But ... when you do get to Japan ...

[unfenced-fire.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that, I'll use your description when I go to Japan next week ^___^

[missilver.livejournal.com]

wow so detail!^^
im a noodle freak and definately want to try koyama's ramen
one day... lol
thanks for this

-dee-
^^V

[watchful21.livejournal.com]

lol...I don't need to go there any more since I've lived it vicariously through this photoessay. I love your step by step instructions on how to get there. There should be no excuses...no one should ever get lost on their way to eat koyamamama's ramen! Thanks for sharing.

[seige-k.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for posting this!

[kitsunemd.livejournal.com]

Mem-ing this... too bad I wasn't able to visit the place when I went to Japan last March... maybe next time ^^

Thank you very much for the very detailed post :D

[yumenostalgic.livejournal.com]

I already have in my memories your 1st post with regards in going to the ramen house. Might as well put this on memories which will come in handy.

Thanks again.^ ^

[ayukas.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for sharing!
I'll definitely head there the next time I visit Japan :D

[chibi-news.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for sharing all this info :D
I'm planning on going to the Koyama ramen shop with friends at the start of next year and i'm sure all your info here will make sure i don't get horribly lost XD; It doesn't look too hard to get to but i'm sure i'd get lost anyways XDD

[gadegoi.livejournal.com]

Jumping into this entry and immediately bookmarking it.
Thank you so much for sharing this. :D

[selina-kido.livejournal.com]

omg!
that is sooooo coool~
i wanna go too!
and thanks for the link of Hyperdia ^^

[aures.livejournal.com]

thank you for this! :D looks amazing

[nvmeii.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!! This will come in handy, one day.
(wow.. there's century 21 in Japan O__O)

[kll-tcs.livejournal.com]

Wow... amazing!

I'm definitely bookmarking this for my Japan trip next year!

[babyshazam.livejournal.com]

thank you so much for this! ^^;
*adds to memories*

[arisa-draconis.livejournal.com]

Ne...

Do you have their address though? :D

Thanks for the post. Will save it for later :P

[murasaki-anna.livejournal.com]

thanks for this
im going to tokyo in 2 weeks time and more than anything, i wanna try the gyoza coz everyone i know who has been there says that its DELICIOUS!!
lol

[c-shayne.livejournal.com]

omg thank you so much for this
*memming*

[sutewi.livejournal.com]

thank you for this! :D
I've been searching for this lol
maybe I'll go there when I'm in japan ^-^

[c-ryo-c.livejournal.com]

waaa memories! :) i hope i'll get to go again. except we were too shy to talk. i just secretly stared at koyama kaasan and admired how kei-chan's and her profiles look exactly the same ^o^