Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Announcing the Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards for the Ramen Walker Grand Prix, an honor chosen by Japan’s largest ramen media!! “Ramen Walker” Kyushu version, Kanagawa version, Shizuoka version, and Ibaraki versio

Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Co., Ltd. (2024.11.15) Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Co., Ltd. Announcing the Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards for the Ramen Walker Grand Prix, an honor chosen by Japan’s largest ramen media!! “Ramen Walker” Kyushu version, Kanagawa version, Shizuoka version, and Ibaraki version released Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, President: Noriko Kase) has announced the release of the Kyushu version (released on November 16, 2024) and the Kanagawa version (released on November 16, 2024) as the fourth edition of “Ramen Walker 2025”. The Shizuoka version (released on November 26, 2024), and the Ibaraki version (released on November 26, 2024) will be published sequentially. Image
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Thanks to you, we are No. 1 in actual sales nationwide! ※  This year, the ramen information magazine “Ramen Walker” is celebrating its 16th year, and the popular project “Ramen Walker Grand Prix” to determine the truly delicious ramen restaurants in each area has been significantly renewed. The judging method has been completely changed, and ramen restaurants representing each area will be recognized with three awards: Gold, Silver, and Bronze. The popular new store features and special benefits plans are further enhanced every year, and published in 14 areas nationwide. Following the first Tokyo edition, Tokai edition, and Hokkaido edition, the second edition Miyagi edition, Tochigi edition, and Fukushima edition, and the third edition Kansai edition, Yamagata edition, and Saitama edition, the fourth edition to be released in November is Kyushu. 4 areas: Ban, Kanagawa version, Shizuoka version, and Ibaraki version. We plan to publish the Chiba version in December. *Compiled fairly by our company based on sales company data (CDP_CANTERA, etc.) (Survey period August 2023 to June 2024) ■Announcing gold, silver, and bronze awards with a new judging method! “Ramen Walker Grand Prix” The newly-revamped “Ramen Walker Grand Prix” will be held in each area by the Ramen Walker editorial department, who will conduct an actual tasting survey of the restaurants eligible for judging (excluding Hall of Fame restaurants), and based on the results, the Ramen Walker editorial department will conduct a tasting survey of the restaurants eligible for judging (excluding Hall of Fame restaurants). Detailed evaluation from perspectives such as . After that, Hyakumenjin, the top professional group famous in the ramen world, ※ After rigorous discussions with the following, we will select and award Gold, Silver, and Bronze ramen restaurants. Hyakumenjin has welcomed two new members (Otsukemen Expo producer: Junya Inoue, comedian Ya-dan: Akira Nakajima), and has reformed not only the judging method but also the system. This is an authoritative award presented by Japan’s largest ramen media, both in name and reality. *“Hyakumen-jin”: Comprised of 10 “Top 100-men-people” such as celebrities and critics, as well as “Area 100-men-people” who are knowledgeable about local ramen situations, such as media personnel and bloggers. The “Top 100 Noodles” are Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Hantsu Endo, Takashi Tanaka, Takamitsu Kobayashi, Hirofumi Akaike, Brian McDuxton, Naru Narumi, Junya Inoue, Akira Nakajima, and Katsutaka Matsumoto.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-792ea64fba09cdfde37c3308af7133de-500×353.png ■More savings! More benefits and limited noodle plans!! In the featured content at the beginning of the book, you can get even more discounts on popular special benefits. There are plenty of great deals, including the Noodle Passport, which allows you to enjoy benefits as many times as you like during the validity period, as well as coupons that allow you to sample exquisite ramen for free or at half price. The limited noodle project, which is popular every year, also comes with a “limited noodle pass” that you can cut out and carry with you, so you can now enjoy the limited menu by showing the “limited noodle pass” without having to bring the magazine.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-1476d7de55f3b11b05e426daf461bca5-936×664.png “Ramen Walker Kyushu 2025”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-1a5ff316c7a2ca0b4620db40148233ad-500×713.png Kyushu version area special feature 1 “30 new stores with a variety of pork bones, rich and rich soy sauce, etc.” Special feature on new stores in Kyushu that opened between October 2023 and September 2024. This year’s hottest new faces will appear. “Ramenan Suzuna” is a wonderful combination of thick noodles that are rare in Kyushu and rich pork bone seafood, “Atafuta” is a specialty of dried sardines that brings out the rich flavor with aged soup, and the miso grilled on the skin of the pot is exquisite. Leading the next generation of Kyushu ramen, including “Menya Kinjiro,” “New Hikara,” which is popular for its beef bone soup tsukemen, and “Menya Daisen Kengun,” which serves Kumamoto’s best abura soba. We have a lineup of notable stores.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-4248acf0baa6ce3a7398df7af55be50d-800×280.png Kyushu version area special feature 2 “Currently approaching the ramen that interests you! The world of non-tonkotsu ramen” A genre called “non-tonkotsu ramen” is often talked about in Kyushu. There are literally ramen that don’t use pork bones, and there are restaurants that use pork bones in their soup but are gaining popularity as a “non-tonkotsu” genre. In this special feature, we will once again examine the definition of “non-tonkotsu ramen” and look forward to its future expansion as a ramen genre. There are four restaurants in total, including “Chinese Soba Kanade – Niboshi Edition” and “Tenjiku Ramen,” which are famous for completely non-tonkotsu, and “Ramen Hayagawa” is famous for its miso blended with spices. We will also introduce 4 other restaurants, including Yukimiya, which is popular for its meat-based soup.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-b40c888c70b92f92c6d6055f0bb1acee-400×269.png “Ramen Walker Kanagawa 2025”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-bb09d2e5561806900986d7ba49ac0e7f-500×712.png *The image is a work in progress. Kanagawa version area special feature 1 “Rising stars such as talented people from famous stores! 20 stores with high-level masterpieces” Carefully selected from new stores in Kanagawa that opened between fall 2023 and September 2024. We have talented chefs such as “Ramen Shinmugi” who trained at the famous restaurant “G Men 7 Group” and went independent, and “Tsukemen Sakuma” from Kuriyama. There are also new developments such as “Mendo Aburin,” where “Menya Shokudo” takes on the challenge of making abura soba, and “Yatai Ramen Hanare-chan,” an attempt by Sagamihara’s “Sagamihara Keyaki ~HANARE~” to create street food ramen that is only open during the day. Attention! In addition, we will introduce new stores based on popular genres and keywords, such as Kanagawa’s first store, rich miso, and chicken paitan.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-4248acf0baa6ce3a7398df7af55be50d-800×280.png *The image is a work in progress. Kanagawa version area special feature 2 “Musashi Shinjo has evolved into one of Kanagawa’s most competitive areas!”   Musashi Shinjo is a town with an
old-fashioned shopping street. In March of this year, the new business “Menraku Karunami” opened by “Kalpaci”, which produces popular spice curry, etc., has evolved into one of Kanagawa’s most competitive ramen areas. Within about a 10-minute walk from the station, there are many shops of various genres, including chain stores. There are shops full of individuality, such as “Menya Yuyaken”, which is popular for its unique interior with a public bath motif, “Niboshi Ramen Tanakaboru”, which attracts two-minded people, and “Mensouken Beni Musashi Shinjo”, which sells spicy miso. Crowded. We will unravel the ramen situation at Musashi Shinjo, including an interview with the owner, who asks, “Why did you come to Musashi Shinjo?”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-5594ba6526d128e9b49cd2ebad04b3ff-400×262.png *The image is a work in progress. “Ramen Walker Shizuoka 2025”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-45f40b7ff8673b5526a9ecd926d7ef5b-500×699.png *The image is a work in progress. Released for the first time in 8 years! Shizuoka version area special feature 1 “Niboshi-style noodles, shocking noodles, and those from famous restaurants! 17 new stores to watch” From fall 2023 to fall 2024, stores will open one after another that are sure to become a hot topic in the Shizuoka ramen world, and the Shizuoka version has been decided to be released for the first time in eight years since 2017. In the special feature on new stores, we will introduce “Ramen Kaoru,” which was opened by the owner who wanted to “give back to the local community” after training at a popular restaurant, and “Ichijo-ryu Chinese Soba Chisou,” which inherits the DNA of the famous restaurant. )” and “RAMEN VILLAGE CAFE,” which looks like a cafe and doesn’t look like a ramen restaurant at first glance. We will feature promising rising stars.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-ad99f558f608b4ab4ac547b7e053b6b5-800×275.png *The image is a work in progress. Shizuoka version area special feature 2 “Will it become a local noodle!? Tuna bowl & ramen” Since Shizuoka Prefecture is close to the port, the tuna bowl and ramen set menu is rapidly gaining popularity. Minori Takahashi, who loves ramen, visits and reports on “Sugai Honten”, which is popular for its tuna bowl made with high-quality black tuna ordered from all over the country, mainly from Yaizu Port, and the tonkotsu ramen trained in the authentic Hakata area. . What is the flavor of this pairing that seems to be a candidate for Oka’s local noodles? Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-1c29407fcb4101471fdebeb4b6a553a6-400×272.png *The image is a work in progress. “Ramen Walker Ibaraki 2025”
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-3eaef26c67a29f2d48fe9f1364a5337e-500×698.png *The image is a work in progress. Ibaraki version area special feature 1 “Salt and kelp water tsukemen that inherit the taste of famous stores! 18 new stores that are popular” We feature notable stores in Ibaraki that opened between November 2023 and October 2024. Super rookie chefs who honed their skills at well-known restaurants in their hometown of Ibaraki and Tokyo, “Menya Nakano” and “Ramen Shinkai,” and “Special Chicken Soba Ryusuke Tsuchiura Gakuen-dori Branch” and “Tsukemen,” which offer uniquely arranged and innovative kelp water tsukemen. There will be talented restaurants that should be noticed right now, such as “Mumei Wolf” and “Ken-chan Ramen Koga Branch,” which has already become a hot topic in Ibaraki for the first time.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-81ba614ac6b9c90c0b17ce394bb20497-800×277.png *The image is a work in progress. Ibaraki version area special feature 2 “It’s from Ibaraki! Shijimi & clam fish shellfish ramen” Ibaraki’s fish and shellfish boast some of the best catches in the country. Introducing carefully selected exquisite fish and shellfish ramen using clams and clams that can only be enjoyed in Ibaraki. Shiji Miramen, whose soup is appealing to all five organs, includes restaurants such as “Japanese Kappo Daikokuya”, a long-established restaurant loved by locals, and “Restaurant Uminokaze”, which is particular about local production for local consumption. We offer clam ramen that looks gorgeous, such as “Sushi/Kappo Nohara,” where the craftsmanship shines, and “Roadside Station Joso Inaho Shokudo,” which is a hot topic at the roadside station.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/17610/154/17610-154-056d1145f78b653315ee7449f3596ace-400×281.png *The image is a work in progress. [Summary] “Ramen Walker Kyushu 2025” Ramen Walker Mook List price: 900 yen (excluding tax) Release date: Saturday, November 16, 2024 ISBN:9784049112474 Magazine code: 62635-31 Format: A4 size, 116 pages Released by: KADOKAWA Co., Ltd. : Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Co., Ltd. Official website URL: https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/322408000111/ “Ramen Walker Kanagawa 2025” Ramen Walker Mook List price: 900 yen (excluding tax) Release date: Monday, November 25, 2024
ISBN:9784049112443 Magazine code: 62635-32 Format: A4 size, 108 pages Released by: KADOKAWA Co., Ltd. : Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Co., Ltd. Official website URL:
https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/322408000027/ “Ramen Walker Shizuoka 2025” Ramen Walker Mook List price: 900 yen (excluding tax) Release date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 ISBN:9784049112436 Magazine code: 62635-35 Format: A4 size, 100 pages Released by: KADOKAWA Co., Ltd. : Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Co., Ltd. Official website URL: https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/322408000026/ “Ramen Walker Ibaraki 2025” Ramen Walker Mook List price: 900 yen (excluding tax) Release date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024 ISBN:9784049112481 Magazine code: 62635-33 Format: A4 size, 100 pages Released by: KADOKAWA Co., Ltd. : Kadokawa ASCII Research Institute Co., Ltd. Official website URL:
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