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 |