Recommended bowl: Quality Jiro branch

One of the higher ranked Jiro shops in the Tokyo metropolitan area (now over 30 branches in Tokyo). There’s usually a long line and is commonly frequented by women customers, which is rare amongst Jiro shops. The bowls consist of the signature Jiro style salty, fatty tonkotsu shoyu soup, with thick-cut housemade noodles. The servings here are known to be just a tad bit smaller than most Jiro shops, with the regular shō (small) size still being large but manageable by Jiro standards. Regular bowls come with two pieces of pork chashu, yet options for five or double (10) piece bowls are on the ticket machine, too. Also quite popular is the shirunashi (soupless) bowl.