Ramen Jiro　Mita Main shop

A must for ramen lovers. Get there early as the wait can be long. The soup is full of pork and garlic and aubra (pork fat), I ask for the extra garlic and extra aubra (I recommend taking a long walk after to work off some of this deliciousness!)
It is highly recommended to know a some Japanese to order here. You buy your ticket at the machine but the staff may ask if you want garlic added to your bowl also confirming your bowl size.

Jiro san… ごめんなさい！
I wanted so hard to love your ramen. Your line of salary men outside your door was telling. The cheap ¥600 prices of your machine took me by surprise! Your willingness to make room for three of us to sit together was admirable. 本当にありがとう、でも。。。
I can’t say that I would come back right away. I love ramen and all the flavors Japan has to offer that will tease my tongue and make me go crazy over broth and noodles. Unfortunately, we may just not be a match made with Kami-sama’s ramen heaven.
I’ve broken so many taboos here with you:
* I wasn’t able to finish my bowl. Damn, your portion was huge. As an American, I was loving it all and was so happy you gave us more and more garlic and bean sprouts. I think it may have been a bit too much for me. Forgive me for not finishing your hearty bowl.
* The high sodium, shio broth with shoyu mixed in was so hard for me to finish. I’ll admit– I am more of a tonkotsu (pork bone) based ramen fan, but shio comes a close second. Maybe it was the garlic, but I felt it was a struggle to even finish half of your bowl.
* The huge pork chunks were amazing, especially the fatty pieces. However, if it wasn’t fatty, it was quite dry and hard to chew. I don’t think I was prepared for this much meat in the first place. I couldn’t finish it.
By no means were you not anything but delicious. I really enjoyed the first few digs into your massive bowl of ramen, but it quickly became a trial. Perhaps one day I will return and try again. I will prepare myself beforehand to ensure I can have all of your ramen. For now, I will need to step down in battle and say… ちょっと。

If ramen was something that could be taken to go, this would have been at least 3 meals for me and I eat a lot. HUGE ramen. When you first get your bowl, it may not seem that way but I worked on it for a while and when I started feeling full, I looked down (I was enjoying it too much to pay attention to how much was left), the bowl looked like it had barely been touched.
So now you know it’s big but was it good? Yes! It was one of the 2 best bowls of ramen I had in Tokyo (out of more than 10) and one of the three best I had in all of Japan. A ton of garlic but the guy asked me if that was okay before serving me and I was completely fine with it. One piece of advice that I have would be to focus on the fattier pieces of meat first and once you’re done with those, move on to the others. I had fatty pieces left by the time I was full and felt bad wasting them so I finished them and felt terrible afterwards. Like I could barely walk terrible.
Great ramen, huge portions. Might have to wait in line for a bit but it moves quickly. Also one of the cheapest good ramen places I visited. Would recommend if you’re in the area.

This shop holds a very special place in my heart, the shop where I experienced the best bowl of noodles in my life! My dad found this place from a chat thread on chowhound before we traveled to Tokyo back in 2005. This was sort of before the days of Unilocal.
I recall I had my ramen with extra pork and fresh minced garlic. The broth here is so fatty and rich *droool*. At first i saw this big layer of fat on top of the soup and was a little turned off, but actually it’s damn good. Now when you search the web for this place there are all kinds of articles written about their noodles! who knew?

Now Unilocal is more widely used in Japan!
Japanese living in the U.S., I can write informative reveiw in English.
This is the original and headquater of Ramen Jiro, now hundreds of branches all over in Japan. Jiro is considered a different type of dish, not just ramen. You will be full. It’s is more than you expect for sure.
I was shocked when I first ate Jiro. Literally it is a mountain of vegetable, and pork on the top or noodles. You can order extra extra (X2) vegetable, and gralic flavor to add. However, you need to say in Japanese, «yasai mashi mashi ninniku».
The price is reasonable around $ 8. No tip system in this country!

Yeah, when Tokyokko after Tokyokko said Jiro’s «oiishi» (delicious) but they don’t eat there ’cause they can’t finish it, I chalked it up to their smaller portion sizes and, one would assume, appetites. Wrong. This is the biggest bowl of ramen I have ever seen. I barely finished half of it. That’s not to say it isn’t absolutely «oiishi.» It is. From the super-​rich shoyu (soy) broth to the oddly thick noodles to the flavorfully thick pork slices and heaped cabbage on top, one taste and you’ll understand why this place is packed at 9 in the morning. But be warned: have this for breakfast and you’ll be burping garlic (you might want to tell Jiro-​san to delete it) and doing gastric gymnastics all day long.