13 ramen places in Hiroshima we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Hiroshima | Ramen across every city.

Bakudanya Honten ★ 4.5

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shintenchi · 2-12 Shintenchi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima

Bakudanya is the Shintenchi shop that pushed Hiroshima tsukemen beyond the city: cold noodles dipped in a chilli and seafood-stock sauce you grade yourself.

Chukasoba Youki Eba Honten ★ 4.5

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eba · 3-4-1 Ebaminami, Naka-ku, Hiroshima

Chukasoba Youki has cooked one dish in Eba since 1958, and its soy and pork-bone bowl is exactly what Hiroshima people mean when they say chuka soba.

Musashibo ★ 4.4

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otemachi · 5-12 Fujimi-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima

Musashibo serves Hiroshima's broth-free tantanmen a short walk from the Chudenmae tram stop, ordered by vending machine and graded by heat at no extra cost.

Mongoi-tei Tanna Honten ★ 4.2

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minami-ku · 1-38 Tanna-cho, Minami-ku, Hiroshima

Mongoi-tei in Tanna builds a chicken, pork and seafood broth finished with dried fish and prawn oil, one of Hiroshima's busiest late ramen rooms.

Tsubame Ramen ★ 4.0

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nishi-ku · 3-2 Higashikanon-machi, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima

Tsubame Ramen works a small Higashi-Kanon room in western Hiroshima, a neighbourhood chuka soba counter rather than a stop on any visitor circuit.

Rai Rai Tei ★ 3.9

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minami-ku · 3-3 Nishi-Midori-machi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima

Rai Rai Tei is a plain Minami-ku noodle room in Hiroshima with a split lunch and dinner service and a queue that forms without any signage at all.

Wadato Hiroshima Ekimae ★ 4.0

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ekimae · 5-12 Enkobashi-cho, Minami-ku, Hiroshima

Wadato works a Hakata-style tonkotsu bowl beside Hiroshima Station, open through the afternoon at weekends and until 23:30 for the last-train crowd.

Mongoi-tei Tanna Honten ★ 4.2

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minami-ku · 1-38 Tanna-cho, Minami-ku, Hiroshima

Mongoi-tei keeps its Tanna counter open to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, which makes it the practical late ramen bowl in southern Hiroshima.

Bakudanya Honten ★ 4.5

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shintenchi · 2-12 Shintenchi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima

Bakudanya sells Hiroshima tsukemen for under 1,000 yen in Shintenchi: cold noodles with cabbage, cucumber and a chilli dipping sauce you grade yourself.

Chukasoba Youki Eba Honten ★ 4.5

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eba · 3-4-1 Ebaminami, Naka-ku, Hiroshima

Chukasoba Youki in Eba has sold one bowl of Hiroshima chuka soba since 1958, and it remains among the cheapest good lunches anywhere in the city.

Musashibo ★ 4.4

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otemachi · 5-12 Fujimi-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima

Musashibo sells Hiroshima's broth-free tantanmen from a ticket machine in Fujimi-cho, with every heat level priced exactly the same as the rest.

Rai Rai Tei ★ 3.9

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minami-ku · 3-3 Nishi-Midori-machi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima

Rai Rai Tei is a plain Minami-ku noodle shop in Hiroshima where a full bowl of chuka soba still lands comfortably under 1,000 yen at either service.

Tsubame Ramen ★ 4.0

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nishi-ku · 3-2 Higashikanon-machi, Nishi-ku, Hiroshima

Tsubame Ramen feeds western Hiroshima a cheap soy-and-pork chuka soba from a small Higashi-Kanon room a few minutes from the Tenmacho tram stop.