Ramen Daisuki Koizumi-san - Vol. 4 Ch. 34 - Train Station Platform
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Good news:
The standing ramen stand in Kasukabe station on platform 7/8 (Urban Park line) is called Tobu Ramen, and yeah, they do serve the croquette ramen. Not sure if it’s actually called Prince Croquette ramen, but it could be a fictional clue to ID the place…Tobu railway’s competitor Seibu also own the Prince hotel chain.
If Koizumi came in from Tobu Zoo off a Tokyo Metro Hanzomon line train (that’s a Tokyo Metro 08 model train that she stepped out of…which is only used on the Hanzomon line) and if she’s rushing towards Kita-Senju, she would be on the other island platform (2/3, Tobu Skytree line) - it does explain why she had to run on that underpass to make it on that next train. Even if she didn’t hop off for croquette ramen she would have to change trains later on anyways as she’ll need a Hibiya (not Honzomon) line train for Kita-Senju.
Bad news:
The beef bone soup ramen place that she’s heading to near Kita-Senju (Matador Gyukotsu)…closed down recently. Pity too, since it made it on multiple “best of” lists before 2020. Haven’t been, but I had Gyukotsu from Kamitoku (which have locations in Tottori, Ginza and Ward village in Honolulu)…really good stuff.
Thanks to inflation many small ramen shops will likely not make it, so savor them while you can.
The standing ramen stand in Kasukabe station on platform 7/8 (Urban Park line) is called Tobu Ramen, and yeah, they do serve the croquette ramen. Not sure if it’s actually called Prince Croquette ramen, but it could be a fictional clue to ID the place…Tobu railway’s competitor Seibu also own the Prince hotel chain.
If Koizumi came in from Tobu Zoo off a Tokyo Metro Hanzomon line train (that’s a Tokyo Metro 08 model train that she stepped out of…which is only used on the Hanzomon line) and if she’s rushing towards Kita-Senju, she would be on the other island platform (2/3, Tobu Skytree line) - it does explain why she had to run on that underpass to make it on that next train. Even if she didn’t hop off for croquette ramen she would have to change trains later on anyways as she’ll need a Hibiya (not Honzomon) line train for Kita-Senju.
Bad news:
The beef bone soup ramen place that she’s heading to near Kita-Senju (Matador Gyukotsu)…closed down recently. Pity too, since it made it on multiple “best of” lists before 2020. Haven’t been, but I had Gyukotsu from Kamitoku (which have locations in Tottori, Ginza and Ward village in Honolulu)…really good stuff.
Thanks to inflation many small ramen shops will likely not make it, so savor them while you can.
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Do you live in Japan or something? That information sounds like something only someone who lives there would know.
Not really, but I do visit regularly.
Also, there is a video of someone ordering and eating the croquette ramen at Tobu Ramen (no reference to “prince”), although I got the impression that it’s just “fine”.
Wait…Does that sign at Tobu Ramen say コロッケ王子ラーメン (korokke oji ramen - croquette prince ramen) or コロッケ玉子ラーメン (korokke tamago ramen - croquette egg ramen)?
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ahhhhh! okay, you're right. i misread the kanji and didn't see the extra dot on 玉. hold on, i'm going to update a bunch of things
Edit: It should be there now, my bad again.
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Eh, no worries. Mamoru Oshii made a surreal comedy based on tachigui culture set in the Jin-Roh universe (well, the characters are from that universe, but the setting is not easy to figure out) called The Tales of the Fast Food Grifters (Tachiguishi-Retsuden 立喰師列伝), which does go into some slightly embellished oral history of stand-up joints. That being said, there are tachigui places that feature simple stools - there is a place at Shin Umeda Shokudo-Gai 新梅田食道街 (New Umeda eatery street) in central Osaka that I really enjoyed. it’s called Warau 笑卵 and made a hell of a curry tsukimi-don. It’s just a counter with stools, a ticket machine, you hand over a ticket and they serve you a bowl. That entire Shokudo-gai is packed full of stand-up or hole-in-the-wall joints just like that, and it’s attached directly to Osaka’s main train station. I personally consider that more indicative of the city’s Kudaiore (eat until you drop) culture than, say, Dotonbori.
I don’t think those restaurants switch between ramen and soba since I remember seeing standing shops in Nagoya train stations doing Udon noodles, which can serve up a good bowl just as fast. It’s just that it’s easier and faster to crush a hot bowl of soba (or have it cold with a dipping sauce) when you have only 5-7 minutes max between getting a bowl and rushing onto an inbound train, while ramen and udon takes a bit longer to cool down.
Oh yeah, more Saitama manga trivia - Iwatsuki is not too far from Kasukabe on the Tobu Urban Park line, and It’s known as the home of a certain cosplaying power couple.
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