ちゃぶ屋 とんこつらぁ麵 - Chabuton, Akihabara

とんこつラーメン - Tonkotsu Ramen, ￥680

    Some say that Akihabara is a must-visit part of Tokyo if you're visiting while others (including me obviously) would say that you must eat ramen while you're in town. So why not kill the proverbial two (three?!) birds with one stone and do it on the dining floor of one the largest electronics stores in the world, Yodabashi Akiba?

   As you're most likely aware, the big Tokyo department stores have restaurant floors occupying at least one of the upper levels and since Yodabashi resembles a department store in area, it stands to reason it will also have a few restaurants up on the 8th floor. Once you're there you can tell them how you really feel.

    The original Chabuton actually came into existence in the often forgotten (not by this blog) Arakawa ward, but has since moved on to bigger, but not necessarily better, things and can be found in electronics stores in Yokohama and Osaka. I guess most of them serve up something like this.

It's a pretty handy hakata style bowl of ramen with some pretty minimal, standard toppings and some sesame seeds floating around at the top. They don't seem to offer a great deal, aside from the odd one catching onto a noodle, since one doesn't normally chew on soup...

   Not that one needs to in order to finish a bowl of it...

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