Ramen restaurant in Japan
Source: NTT iTown page
Rank | Prefecture | No. of Ramen
Restaurant |
No. of shops
per 10,000 people |
population (1,000 people) |
1 | Yamagata | 751 | 6.6 | 1,130 |
2 | Tochigi | 955 | 4.8 | 1,999 |
3 | Niigata | 1,007 | 4.3 | 2,319 |
4 | Saga | 358 | 4.2 | 842 |
5 | Akita | 401 | 3.8 | 1,043 |
6 | Kagoshima | 634 | 3.8 | 1,680 |
7 | Fukushima | 737 | 3.8 | 1,954 |
8 | Okinawa | 547 | 3.7 | 1,461 |
9 | Aomori | 495 | 3.7 | 1,338 |
10 | Hokkaido | 1,972 | 3.7 | 5,401 |
11 | Toyama | 393 | 3.6 | 1,080 |
12 | Miyazaki | 405 | 3.6 | 1,128 |
13 | Nagano | 764 | 3.6 | 2,138 |
14 | Kumamoto | 645 | 3.6 | 1,810 |
15 | Ishikawa | 408 | 3.5 | 1,157 |
16 | Gunma | 690 | 3.4 | 2,005 |
17 | Tokushima | 263 | 3.4 | 770 |
18 | Yamanashi | 280 | 3.3 | 850 |
19 | Miyagi | 744 | 3.2 | 2,324 |
20 | Fukuoka | 1,632 | 3.2 | 5,122 |
21 | Ibaraki | 914 | 3.1 | 2,970 |
22 | Hiroshima | 871 | 3.0 | 2,863 |
23 | Shimane | 210 | 3.0 | 701 |
24 | Iwate | 377 | 2.9 | 1,289 |
25 | Tottori | 167 | 2.9 | 579 |
26 | Ooita | 335 | 2.8 | 1,184 |
27 | Fukui | 224 | 2.8 | 799 |
28 | Nagasaki | 389 | 2.8 | 1,404 |
29 | Sjizuoka | 981 | 2.6 | 3,771 |
30 | Okayama | 483 | 2.5 | 1,934 |
31 | Tokyo | 3,304 | 2.5 | 13,415 |
32 | Kochi | 176 | 2.4 | 740 |
33 | Ehime | 335 | 2.4 | 1,416 |
34 | Gifu | 474 | 2.3 | 2,076 |
35 | Yamaguchi | 322 | 2.3 | 1,420 |
36 | Chiba | 1,396 | 2.2 | 6,266 |
37 | Aichi | 1,489 | 2.0 | 7,510 |
38 | Kyoto | 505 | 2.0 | 2,575 |
39 | Kagawa | 189 | 1.9 | 1,002 |
40 | Wakayama | 176 | 1.8 | 994 |
41 | Mie | 326 | 1.8 | 1,850 |
42 | Shiga | 241 | 1.7 | 1,420 |
43 | Kanagawa | 1,517 | 1.7 | 9,136 |
44 | Saitama | 1,207 | 1.6 | 7,323 |
45 | Osaka | 1,239 | 1.4 | 8,866 |
46 | Hyogo | 742 | 1.3 | 5,621 |
47 | Nara | 176 | 1.3 | 1,388 |
Total | 32,846 | 2.6 | 128,066 |