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Kyoto is an internationally well-known historical city of Japan. Despite of its classical characteristics, casual food like ramen is widely loved by many people. Kyoto has many different types of ramen shops rather than having a specific style of local ramen, which include light flavoured soup using traditional Japanese soup broth. Also, nationwide ramen franchise Tenkaippin famous for thick chicken soup is also from Kyoto.
Musoushin
Musoushin is a ramen shop group with three locations in Kyoto. These shops are popular among local customers but in addition to them, their ramen cooking workshop held at Musoushin’s noodle factory in Gion draws huge attention from tourists. In the workshop, visitors can use professional noodle making equipment including a noodle making machine. After an orientation with an instructor, visitors knead, roll, and cut dough. After tasting three types of noodles of different thickness, participants will enjoy their own original ramen soaked in Musoushin’s special soup. This is a fantastic experience of tasting freshly made delicious noodles. The place is located in the middle of Kyoto city, easy to access and schedule in your travel plan.
Musoushin
Address: 73 Hakata-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto
TEL: 090-1440-3001
Lesson hours: 10:30 – 11:30/13:00 – 14:00/16:30 – 17:30 daily
Fee: ￥5,000
Nariko’s Kitchen
A small ramen & gyoza cooking class for up to 7 people. This class uses commercially available noodles (You’ll make dumpling pastries from scratch). The light chicken-base soup is the instructor’s mum’s secret recipe. The motto of this class is making tasty ramen with ordinary daily ingredients with simple process. After attending this class, you will be able to make a set of ramen and dumpling, the most beloved combination lunch in Japan, at your home.
Nariko’s Kitchen
Meeting point: Exit 1, Matsugasaki Station, Kyoto Subway Karasuma Line
Lesson hours: 3 hours from 10:00
Fee: ￥13,000
Ramen Factory Kyoto
Ramen Factory in Kyoto provides the most professional type of ramen class among all one-day ramen cooking classes held in Japan. In the fully equipped kitchen, participants will learn making ramen noodles from scratch, making soup broth, cooking noodles perfectly, arranging topping. The kitchen has everything you need for ramen making and procedures are straightforward. Even people who don’t know much about ramen can enjoy cooking ramen here. You can choose topping and soup base from several options to make delicious and unique ramen dish of your own.
Ramen Factory Kyoto
Address: BF1 Plantan Building 447-14 Kajiicho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto
TEL: 075-708-8881
Lesson hours: Starts 11:00, 13:00, 16:00, 18:00 daily
Fee: ￥15,000
Vegan Ramen and Gyoza by Sakiko
Do you have trouble in finding a vegan ramen shop? If so, don’t you wish you could make vegan ramen at your place by yourself? This class teaches how to make vegan style ramen soup broth and dumplings. Noodles and dumplings pastries used in this class are commercially available products. This is a great class for vegetarians who wants to learn how to make delicious soup broth without using animal-oriented ingredients.
Vegan Ramen and Gyoza by Sakiko
Meeting point: Higashiyama Station, Subway Tozai Line
Lesson hours: 18:00 – 20:30
Fee: ￥9,500
Kyoto style Tantanmen by Yuko
You know, ramen has so many types such as soy sauce-based, miso-based, salty flavour, pork bone broth, seafood broth, etc. This class teaches how to cook tantanmen, one of the hugely popular types of ramen in Japan. Tantanmen is originally a Chinese dish, but it is also commonly eaten in Japan. Slightly spicy, rich soup with noodles and nikumiso is yummy and filling. In this class, you will learn making home-made delicious soup broth and nikumiso. The recipe is easy to re-make at home based on the motto cook ramen with commonly available ingredients.
Kyoto style Tantanmen by Yuko
Nearest station: Iwakura Station, Eizan Kurama Line
Lesson hours: 11:00 – 12:00, 13:00 – 14:00, 15:00 – 16:00
Fee: ￥8,800
Bon appétit !
Kyoto is one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world. You may remember this city with a memory of sophisticatedly seasoned traditional Japanese cuisine. But surprisingly, casual food like ramen is one of the most loved foods in this historical city. The classes introduced in this column offers different types of ramen dish. All locations are easy to access from the center of Kyoto so that participants can make a booking during their visits in Kyoto. So, let’s master ramen cooking while you we experience classic and traditional Japanese culture.
