Tonkotsu ramen is very popular currently. The best Tonkotsu ramen restaurant in Tokyo is KOHMEN!

Many people wish to try Japanese-style ramen noodles when they visit Japan. Ramen is usually categorized by different types of soups. The standard flavors of soups are soy sauce, salt, miso paste, etc. Recent trends include even more various soups such as baitang (which usually indicates a cloudy soup cooked with chicken) and vege-pota (similar to vegetable potage soup), etc.

▼KOHMEN, a ramen restaurant introduced in this article, has a variety of menus from standard ones to limited-time only menus including Abura-noodle, which maintain its deliciousness without soup.

Among their menus, Tonkotsu flavored noodles has gained special attentions from tourists. The key of the popularity is its thick and rich flavor. As its name suggests, Tonkotsu (Ton: pork, Kotsu: bone) noodle soup is made with a pork broth soup that is flavored with soy sauce, miso, salt, etc. Each of them is called Tonkotsu Soy Sauce Ramen, Tonkotsu Miso Ramen, Tonkotsu Salt Ramen, etc.

This article introduces a ramen restaurant called KOHMEN, which Tonkotsu ramen is very popular. Established in Ikebukuro in 1995, the famous restaurant, also called a pioneer of Tokyo Tonkotsu ramen, has succeeded in maintaining the popularity since then. Currently KOHMEN has nine road-side stores in Tokyo. The fine flavor of their soup is surely the key of the popularity, but the wide range of menus and the opening hours (opens until late night) also the point that attracts many customers.

The most popular menu of all the ranges is Jukusei-Kohmen (￥780 including tax), a Tonkotsu Soy Sauce Ramen that represents the restaurant. The curly noodles match to a broth soup, which are cooked for 8-12 hours to extract tastiness and flavors off pork bones.