Recommended bowl: Chicken & vegetables

Kazahana is a home-style ramen shop, more popular with locals than tourists. The chicken-based soup is made with seven types of vegetables, and the shoyu tare contains two varieties of soy sauce — one from Kanazawa and one from Shōdo island, Kagawa prefecture. Most customers order the chashumen or the wonton tamagomen. When the master pulls the noodles from the pot he shakes the draining baskets low to the ground, with trance-like movements. Japanese precision.