Ganso Ramen Yokocho Sapporo
Narrow alley of side-by-side ramen counters rebuilt from a nineteen-fifties noodle row.
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This guide to Ganso Ramen Yokocho in Sapporo traces the alley back to 1951, when eight small shops opened as the Koraku Ramen quarter, and to Ajino Karyuryu, the one shop still tracing its line straight to that year. It follows the road widening that forced the whole row off its original ground ahead of the 1972 Olympics, and the Asahikawa-style shop Tokuichi Tomiya, opened in 1975 by a cook whose son grew up embarrassed by his father's trade before taking over the counter himself. Walk the seventeen doorways and see which ones carry that same second-act history.
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