Niboshi Ramen Matoka is a popular ramen restaurant that has seen queues since it opened on August 2024, 8. It is located in a corner of a tenant building in Ozato, Kofu City, and as soon as it opens at 23:11, a queue forms!

Buy your meal ticket from the ticket machine right after entering the store. You can choose between salt or soy sauce, with the signature "Niboshi Ramen" and "Hanakatsuo Ramen" as the main dishes, and each has a wide variety of menus such as luxurious special, tsukemen, and light. Today, I clicked on the soy sauce for the "Special Niboshi Ramen" topped with five slices of roast pork, four bamboo shoots, three pieces of nori seaweed, and a seasoned egg.

As I was dining alone, I sat at the counter. There was also a raised tatami room with two tables that seated four people.

Apparently the owner trained at "Maguchan Ramen," a famous ramen shop in Minami-Alps City that serves dried sardines, before going independent. Now that you mention it, the visuals are quite similar.
We also offer extra-large servings of noodles and rice, perfect for growing boys!

The cloudy seafood-based soup is 9% dried sardines! It is said to be an original blend of various ingredients. Slurp up the delicious soup, which is rich in flavor and has a slight sweetness from soy sauce. It has a gentle and refined taste and is easy to eat, so even if you don't like dried sardines, we highly recommend it for those who are trying them for the first time.

The noodles used are medium-thick, firm and crisp noodles from Kyoto noodle factory Teigaku, and they go down extremely smoothly.

There are five thinly sliced ​​pieces of pork of this size! They are moist and soft, so you can eat them all in no time.

Besides ramen, they also have chicken nanban, fried gyoza, and huge fried chicken. They also have small sizes so you can eat them with your ramen.

Next time I want to try the salted noodles and the tsukemen. I'll have to keep coming back!!