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A bowl of shoyu chashu-men from Ramen Higuma's Ojiya main shop, topped with sliced chashu pork, menma and green onion

Food / Niigata

We arrived right at opening. There was already a line.

A ginger-spiked shoyu ramen shop in Ojiya, Niigata, where the line starts before the shutters even go up. What we ordered, the wait, and what to know before you go.

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