The Ramen Index

🍜 The Ramen Index

The theory: a neighbourhood with lots of ramen shops is a hip neighbourhood. So if you want to know where to live (or where to spend Saturday), follow the noodles.

How to use it

• Click anywhere on the map to get its ramen score: how many ramen shops are within 1 km.
• Search a continent, country or city to see its league table: countries, then cities, then areas. Rank by the number of shops or per 100,000 residents.
• Hotspots are the densest ramen spots: the most shops within 1 km. Zoom in to see and click individual shops.

What counts as ramen

Places in OpenStreetMap tagged with ramen cuisine, or restaurants, cafés, bars and food stalls with ramen, rāmen, ラーメン, らあめん, らーめん, 拉麺, 拉面 or 라멘 in their name. In Latin script the word has to start or end a word, so Kyuramen counts but Sacramento doesn't. Menus aren't in OpenStreetMap, so a place that only has ramen on its menu counts only if it's tagged with ramen cuisine.

Data

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, refreshed weekly via QLever. Country populations from Wikidata. Map tiles by OpenFreeMap.

Cities are OpenStreetMap's cities and towns; each shop belongs to the nearest one. Big cities whose districts are mapped as separate cities (Tokyo's wards, for example) include them as areas. Per-capita figures use the city's own population as recorded in OpenStreetMap, so treat them as a rough guide.

A shop missing? Add it to OpenStreetMap with cuisine=ramen and it shows up here after the next weekly refresh.