Recommended bowl: Chicken & gyokai

This shop located near Yamagata station serves a crisp medium thick double soup of chicken and gyokai (dried fish). No MSG. Noodles are house-made, and the recommended 'iwanori' option comes topped with bean sprouts and dried seaweed. The master previously trained at the Tokyo shop Zurumen Ikeda in Meguro, also at a French restaurant in Hakone. Open since May, 2010.