Chuka Soba no Mise Minohi is a ramen and tsukemen shop on the Shimura Ginza shopping street (Shimuran-dori), about two minutes on foot from Exit A4 of Shimura-sakaue Station on the Toei Mita Line. It opened on 14 September 2024. In the 26th TRY Ramen Award 2025-2026 (published 21 October 2025), it took 1st place in the new-shop MIX category and tied for 3rd in the overall new-shop award.
About the shop
The name "Minohi" comes from mi-no-hi, the "day of the snake" in the traditional Japanese calendar. According to the local outlet Itabashi Times, both the day the lease was signed and the opening day fell on a day of the snake, and the name also nods to Benten — the Narimasu ramen shop the owner loves — since the snake is by tradition said to be Benten's messenger. The owner is a ramen enthusiast who reportedly eats around 400 bowls a year, and the shop is run by its manager, Soma (相馬皇士郎), who trained at the Nerima shop Mendokoro Inosho.
The broth uses no vegetables at all: an animal base made from bones and water, layered with mackerel niboshi (dried mackerel), thick-shaved mackerel flakes, and aromatic mackerel oil. The noodles are medium-thick noodles from Mikawaya Seimen, served at 230g with the ramen. Seating is counter only, in a row of shopfronts on the shopping street next to a Chiyoda Sushi.
What to order
The signature bowl is simply "Ramen," reported at 1,050 yen as of October 2025 (it was 1,000 yen at opening). The same report notes a thin-noodle bowl called Ton-Gyo-tsu Ramen offered only after 15:00. Tsukemen (noodles served separately with a dipping broth) is the other pillar of the menu, though the shop paused it for a period right after opening, so what is available can vary by day.
Prices and the menu line-up change, so check the shop's official X (@minohi199537) or Instagram for the latest before you visit.
Tips for visiting
You order at a ticket machine by the entrance, buying a meal ticket before you sit down. At opening, the shop advised that the machine does not accept 5,000- or 10,000-yen notes, so bring 1,000-yen notes or coins.
Hours have changed more than once since the shop opened. As of the October 2025 report, the hours on record were 10:00–20:00 Monday to Friday and on public holidays, and 10:00–15:00 on Saturday and Sunday, with no regular closing day. The shop does close on an ad-hoc basis and sometimes sells out early, and it announces each day's trading on its official X, so check there before heading over.
The walk from the station takes about two minutes and the shop sits inside a shopping street. There are few sights nearby that hold you for long, so it works best as a stop built into a trip along the Mita Line.