One of my students Mai, took me here once. Many of my students agree this is the best ramen shop in Toyohashi. However it is just not reachable from where I lived and worked by bike. I biked all over Toyohashi but this was outside of the areas of town I was familiar with. I learned a lot about ramen when I ate with Mai, before I had to try to figure out the menus on my own. She taught me the oomori extra noodles trick. I tend not to get the extra noodles but I'd often get the chashumen which is ramen with extra slices of meat.
Eight months after I left Toyohashi, I was able to recollect the name of this place despite only visiting it once. I made a point of asking my students what the best ramen shops in town were. The most common answer I got was Momoyama 桃山. Here is a review in Japanese. There are more characters than just momoyama, but the fact that the characters match my memmory has to be a good sign.
In 2026, I returned to Toyohashi, but I never saw any of my former students and I never visited any of the ramen shops I carefully chronicled. Some may be gone after twenty plus years. Since I knew the name of this one I could have Googled it. But I was alone and on foot so stayed close to the station and my old stomping ground. I suppose I could have Uber'ed somewhere in 2026, however I had made plans to meet someone for dinner and let them, a longtime Toyohashi resident choose where we ate.
According to TripAdvisor in 2026, Momoyama is still open, but it is way down the list of best Ramen in Toyohashi, though this webpage does rank for that term after well over twenty years. I prefer to support independent voices, nowadays everyone is making videos, typing up a carefully researched article is so old fashioned. Here is a more recent top reman in Toyohashi recommendation, it is in Japanese, but when I watched it on YouTube it auto translated. Not sure I can get that to just work in static HTML. This is the short version of his video, there is a longer version which recommends even more ramen shops in Toyohashi.
I actually ate a lot of Ramen in China, first in Beijing when I was a student there and later in Shanghai where I again taught English.
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