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Meguro Ward is home to Meguro Station, Tokyo's 11th busiest hub with 640,000 daily passengers. However, the ward's finest ramen establishments don't concentrate around this major station—instead, they scatter throughout local train lines...

Before the 1980s ramen boom, when most establishments treated noodles as supplementary dishes enhanced by chemical seasonings, a handful of exceptional shops defied conventions through pure craftsmanship. Mysteriously, these pioneers con...