2021 Top 100 East Japan Ramen Restaurants According to Tabelog

Every year, Tabelog, a Japanese food site similar to Yelp or Tripadvisor, publishes a top 100 list in every imaginable cuisine type offered in Japan. Some of the more popular cuisines will have lists specifically for Tokyo as well as East Japan and West Japan. Ramen is in fact one of these popular cuisine types in which Tabelog publishes multiple lists for the respective areas of Japan. Below is the 2020 list for East Japan. I organized them by Prefecture (as they do in the actual guide) and linked them to my own review if I have written about them.

Chiba (7)

  • Chuka Soba Tomita

  • Chuka Soba Toku Toku

  • Tonikaku Matsudo Honten

  • Ajidokoro Musashino

  • Tora Shokudo Matsudo

  • Sugita-ya Chiba-ten

  • Koimen Kurage

Kanagawa (44)

  • Tsukemen Gyoku

  • Sagamihara Keyaki

  • Chuka Soba Takano

  • Atsugi Honmarutei

  • Shina Soba-ya Touka

  • Kan2ya

  • Chuka Soba Efu

  • Kuriyama

  • Ramen Iida Shoten

  • Hikage

  • Sugitaya

  • Yokohama Chuka Soba Ishin Shoten

  • Ramen Inoue

  • Ryuseiken

  • Umaiyo Yu-chan Ramen

  • Ramen Mu

  • Suzukiya

  • Mendokoro Futokoroya

  • Sakurai Chuka Soba-ten

  • Yoshimuraya

  • Ramen Atsugiya

  • Menya Rokutousei

  • Chuka Soba Shigure

  • Hoshino Chuka Soba

  • Susurimasenka

  • Chuka Soba Menya Shokudo

  • Mendokoro Akimoto

  • Nakamuraya

  • Nakamura Mensaburo

  • Ramen Hoshijirushi

  • Ramen Moriya

  • Ramen Jiro Nakayama Ekimae-ten

  • Ramen Trick

  • Ramen Sugimoto

  • Zund Bar

  • Ramen Suehiroya

  • Hechikan

  • Iekei Ramen Torakichiya

  • Butaboshi

  • Kaigaraya

  • Kawa no Saki no Ue

  • Shina Soba-ya

  • Ramen Toki

  • Ramen Jiro Yokohama Kannai-ten

Saitama (15)

  • Ramen Kanekatsu

  • Ganjya Honten

  • Kotobuki Seimen Yoshikawa Kawagoe-ten

  • Zenya

  • Chuka Soba Fukamidori

  • Mendokoro Arisa

  • Wafu Ramen Yondaime Hinodeya

  • Oranda Ken

  • Noroshi Honten

  • Tori Soba Issa

  • Chuka Soba Yoshikawa

  • Niboshi Ranpu

  • Noodle and Spice Curry Kyou no Ichiban

  • Jikasei Temomimen Suzunoki

  • Chuka Soba Yotsuba

Hokkaido (11)

  • Menya Saimi

  • Sapporo Jyunren

  • Men Eiji Hiragishi Base

  • Menya Rei

  • Menya Keserasera

  • Ramen Yoshi

  • Menya Nanabe Honten

  • Menya Takahashi

  • Menya Yuki Kaze Susukino-ten

  • Ramen Mokuyoubi

  • Japanese Ramen Noodle Lab Q

Miyagi (1)

  • Chuka Soba Kaichi

Fukushima (4)

  • Tora Shokudo

  • Menya Urota

  • Shokudo Namae

  • Bannai Shokudo

Tochigi (2)

  • Aotake Teuchi Ramen Hinataya

  • Menya Yosuke

Ibaraki (3)

  • Niboshi Chuka Soba Ichikawa

  • Hariken Ramen Honten

  • Kigenmon

Gunma (1)

  • Ramen Shibahama

Aichi (8)

  • Menya Josui

  • Ramen Kanade

  • Karamiso Ramen Fukurou Honten

  • Ramen Asuka

  • Ramen Ajisai

  • Menya Shishimaru

  • Narutoya

  • Ramenya Shio Soba Shizuku

Gifu (1)

  • Ramen Nageyari

Shizuoka (1)

  • Men Soushin

Niigata (2)

  • Ichii

  • Koushouten