Ichijoryu Ganko Ramen may be a familiar name among Shinjuku-area noodle fiends: its cow-skull symbol once decorated the walls of Ichijoryu Sohonke in Yotsuya. That storied shop was replaced by a successor not too long ago, and now the Ichijoryu name lives on way out east in Kanamachi too.
Opened in June 2025, the shop’s speciality is the ‘100’ ramen (¥1,100), a 100-percent soup, no-sauce spectacular featuring a seafood-based broth made out of a daily changing mixture of shellfish, shrimp, crab and turban shells. If that sounds too fishy for you, they also do more orthodox shoyu and shio ramen in both johin (‘refined’) and kotteri (‘thick’) versions, plus tsukemen and soupless mazesoba.