Tokyo Ramen Festa
Komazawa Olympic Park is hosting its annual ramen festival for the last time this autumn with a dozen booths serving Japanese noodles from different prefectures throughout Japan. You can go for a simple shoyu (soy sauce) or shio (salt) ramen, or a bowl with rich tonkotsu pork broth, or one topped generously with chicken. Be warned though: some stalls are expected to have up to two hours wait time, as they are exclusive to the festival or have won the Ramen Grand Prix in recent years.
Instead of being split into multiple parts like previous versions, Tokyo Ramen Festa 2026 is a single, continuous five-day event. This year's lineup includes highlights such as Sapporo's Menya Nanabei with a premium local-chicken broth miso ramen, and Fukuoka's Honda Shoten, serving up rich, aged yobimodoshi-style tonkotsu ramen brought directly from the birthplace of tonkotsu ramen. You'll also find a rich Shinshu chicken paitan collaboration bowl between Nagano's Kimuzukashiya and Tokyo's Hongare Gyorai, and so much more. As a special addition for its final year at the park, the festival is also offering its first-ever rice dish – a ramen-broth curry called Ra-kare made with dried sardine broth soup.
Admission is free, while a bowl of noodles costs ¥1,100. Meal tickets can be purchased on-site or via Seven Ticket, which you can pick up at Seven Eleven outlets nationwide. We recommend purchasing tickets earlier rather than later, as popular bowls can sell out towards the end of the day.