Recommended bowl: Legendary tanmen

Open since 1961, Hatsune is famous across Tokyo for its tanmen. The shop is run by a husband and wife; she is the daughter of the OG master, keeping the shop alive for a second generation. Her husband, the current master, used to be a Japanese chef. He arrives at the shop at 8am every morning to begin making the soup. The soup contains pork bones, vegetables, pork meat and chicken fat. The master brews up a new pot of soup every day. He sources the soup's vegetables from a local veggie shop just around the corner. The noodles are supplied by Kusamura Shouten, and toppings include yaki chikuwa (fish cake) instead of menma. The shop, although somewhat famous, is known to turn down interviews and media coverage.