Ramen Nagi in Japan: The Golden Gai Original and Shops Abroad
ラーメン凪 · started in Tokyo (Shinjuku Golden Gai)
Where to start in Japan: Sugoi Niboshi Ramen Nagi, Shinjuku Golden Gai Honkan, Tokyo. More Ramen Nagi shops below
Where it started
Satoshi Ikuta started Ramen Nagi in 2004 in a tiny space in Shinjuku's Golden Gai: eight seats, open one day a week in a rented slot. Word of mouth added more days and, in time, queues of more than 100 people. Ikuta used those days to try a different bowl each time and settled on a strong niboshi ramen that tastes like biting into the dried fish.
The style
Two lines. Sugoi Niboshi Ramen Nagi is the dried-sardine bowl; Nagi says it buys more than 5 tonnes of niboshi a month.
Ramen Nagi Butao is the pork line, and it is the one most shops outside Japan serve.
Ramen Nagi outside Japan
Every overseas shop on Nagi's official list is labelled Butao, and the Philippines has by far the most of them.
Philippines
Metro Manila (Makati, Pasay, Quezon City, Pasig and more), Baguio, Pampanga, Laguna, Batangas, Cavite
Taiwan
Taipei, Taichung
United States
Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Los Angeles, San Diego, Costa Mesa
From the sources below, checked 2026-10-27. Branches open and close, so check the Ramen Nagi official site before you go.
Eating Ramen Nagi in Japan
The niboshi bowl that made Nagi's name is the reason to go in Japan, since it is not on the overseas list.
Its Golden Gai shop, the Honkan (main shop), is on the second floor of a building inside Golden Gai, about three minutes on foot from Shinjuku-sanchome Station.
If you want to compare with the Butao you had abroad, the Butao shop in Shibuya serves that line.