ABOUT US
We want you to experience Hokkaido ramen culture!
People come to Japan and fall in love with ramen! The ramen trend has gone viral in North America. In recent years, many new ramen restaurants have opened in many major cities, and there have been a lot of ramen festivals and contests.
To deliver Hokkaido gourmet ramen to the rest of the world, popular ramen restaurant owners from Japan have gathered together. During the 3 months festival, they come and serve you authentic bowls of ramen, and there are going to be new restaurants every 2 weeks!
The festival is taking place in Hawaii from April to July 2023, and then in Los Angeles from September 2023. Do not miss this opportunity to try Japanese delicacies!
HAWAII venue
At Mitsuwa marketplace Waikiki, 3 new restaurants every 2 weeks with total of 18 popular ramen restaurants participating. The line-ups include seafood yakisoba, Sapporo miso ramen, NISEKO maze soba and more. There is going to be limited menu items specially created for this festival. Enjoy 1 hour free parking with parking validation. Experience the world of premium ramen with all five of your senses.
VIEW MORELOS ANGELES venue
2nd：09.08.2023 - 09.10
At Seiwa Market and Mitsuwa Market place,
the festival is going to be held for 3 days at each location!
In addition to all the Hawaiians’ favorite miso ramen shops, new seafood rice bowl restaurant has joined with us. Visit us and experience the full Hokkaido food culture!
EXHIBITORS
HAWAII
Yukiguni Story
We, Yukiguni story, specialize in handling Hokkaido seafood. For this festival, we prepared salt Yakisoba with Hokkaido scallops - so called ocean’s steak. Our flavors are simple, so that you can really taste the scallops’ natural umami. Extra scallops can be added as toppings, please enjoy ocean’s steak as much as you’d like.
Sapporo Ramen Sanomaru
In Susukino, the largest red light district in Hokkaido, this restaurant sadly closed its door after 13 years. Now, we can enjoy the legendary ramen again in Hawaii! Our double broth with chicken and tonkotsu is rich and smooth. Hokkaido miso goes very well with the soup! The miso’s flavor and aroma will satisfy your cravings. Adding rich and flavorful butter corn as a topping is highly recommended, you can’t stop eating once you tasted this ramen. Spicy miso is also recommended!
Niseko ramen Tokin
Our soup is light and flavorful with chicken and vegetable broth. We use 3 different miso with a lot of sesame seeds to create iconic, addictive flavors. Our delicious soup tastes even better with minced meat, its spiciness will stimulate your appetite. Our soup-less MAZESOBA is also one of the popular items, the spicy flavor is a must in a hot day!
TOMEJI
On 4.20.2020, the owner, who has been appearing in Hokkaido’s local media scene for more than 20 years, opened this restaurant. We won 2nd place in the best new restaurant award in 2021, well-known through a lot of food events in major cities. For this festival, we prepared Sapporo shrimp miso ramen as Hawaii special limited item!
Kiichiro
In Hokkaido, the vast land in the north, locals have been loving our ramen for more than 10 years. We take pride in using local quality ingredients and we have grown together with our customers. Our most popular item is miso tonkotsu ramen, it is rich and aromatic. We’d love for you to enjoy the flavors we developed over 20 years.
Sakurajima
The soup is the essence of Sakurajima. Melt plenty of vegetables in the pork bones soup and enjoy the refined richness that can be tasted only in Sakurajima, where Japanese-style broth is cut in, until the last drop. We want to meet the smile of you after ate "SAKURAJIMA RAMEN"!
Rishiri Ramen Miraku
Rishiri Island, the farthest north of Hokkaido! Rishiri Ramen Miraku! Richly flavored soup combining chicken pork and vegetable soup stock with kelp soup stock. Fragrant and mellow soy sauce ramen grilling the soy sauce until just before it burns. Enjoy the ramen that won the Bib Gourmand for two consecutive years in the Michelin Guide Hokkaido 2012 to 2017.
Menya Arashi
We serve rich and mild Sapporo ramen made with Sapporo tonkotsu blended with special miso or soy sauce! Customize toppings to create your original ramen, savor the flavor only in Hawaii. We make no compromises on side dishes as well!
Hacchome no Fukuro
Our flavorful soup with chicken collagens goes so well with our noodle, the soup has rich yet sophisticated taste to it. Our Sapporo style middle thickness wavy noodle goes down smoothly. Slow cooked delicious Chashu is our speciality. Everyone has different preferences on ramen, we thrive to serve bowls which both locals and tourists can keep loving for a long time.
KIFUH
Since its opening, KIFUH has been a popular ramen restaurant with lines out the door every day. We offer unique ramen that you cannot find anywhere else. We hope you will try our Miso Ramen, the most popular ramen in Sapporo.
KARAICHI
This is the hottest ramen restaurant in Sapporo. Not only is the broth spicy, but it is also delicious and rich, and we are proud of the fact that you can drink every last drop of it.
MEN-YA ASAHI
This new restaurant opened last year in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. The broth is a blend of pork bone and seafood, and the original medium thin noodles are well mixed with the broth.
KIRARA
A matured miso ramen with a rich, mellow, deep flavor! We use a special miso sauce made from a golden blend of red miso paste to match our signature extra-thick pork bone broth. We offer ramen with a full-bodied and punchy flavor!
GANTETSU
The owner's special ramen. The owner of the Gantetsu has been eating all over Japan, searching for the best pork bone salt. We have faithfully reproduced the same delicious ramen in Hawaii without making any compromises! We hope you will give it a try!
ARATA
Delicious! I want to have it again! We are dedicated to making our dishes taste as good as possible so that we can hear our customers say these words. The deep, secret miso paste is a carefully selected blend of five different kinds. We also use different types of noodles according to the taste to bring out the best flavor.
RIKUBETSU RAMEN
We are opening a restaurant from the coldest place in Japan to the warmest place in Hawaii! We carefully select Hawaii ingredients and carefully and meticulously create a blissful cup of ramen.We have a variety of menu items available for your enjoyment.
GORO RAMEN
Furano is located in the center of Hokkaido.GORO RAMEN, which has a restaurant in Furano, offers ramen noodles made with high-quality Furano's delicious vegetables.We hope that people in Hawaii will enjoy the taste that has been loved in Furano for many years!
TORI soba KAMOSHI
Opened in 2016, this restaurant specializes in chicken broth ramen.We are proud of our chicken broth that maximizes the flavor of chicken.We hope everyone in Hawaii enjoys the refreshing taste of chicken broth ramen!
LOS ANGELES
SAKURAJIMA
Enjoy the elegant richness unique to Sakurajima to the last drop, with plenty of vegetables dissolved in the pork bone broth and Japanese-style soup stock.
ARATA
The deep secret miso is made from a carefully selected blend of five different kinds of miso. To maximize the flavor, different noodles are used for different tastes.
GANTETSU
The owner, who has traveled all over Japan in search of the best pork bone salt, takes great care in the preparation of his ramen.
shochanchi
A homemade miso sauce is added to a clear broth made from pork bones and vegetables. Please enjoy our mild and rich soup.
Menya Arashi
Sapporo tonkotsu (pork bone) ramen blended with special miso and soy sauce for a mild and rich flavor!
RAMEN MISORA
Sapporo ramen, including the "miso la" ramen that gave the restaurant its name, can be found in Los Angeles. The miso ramen is a spicy soup with garlic and ginger, and is topped with cubed pork, minced meat, green onion, and fried garlic. Take this opportunity to try it.