Tsuta Ramen (Japanese Soba Noodles 蔦) is a restaurant in the Tokyo metropolitan area notable for serving primarily Japenese Soba noodles ramen style with a salt soup or soy soup base.

The restaurant gained worldwide press and attention when the Michelin "2016 Tokyo Guide" edition awarded the small joint a coveted Michelin star, effectively making it the highest acclaimed ramen eatery in the world since no other restaurant has ever been awarded a Michelin star for serving noodles.

^[undefined] Tsuta also has been awarded #1 in Tokyo Ramen of the Year Magazines best ramen rankings.

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Tsuta was located on a small, old street corner in the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Due to its low seating capacity (seating only 9 customers at a time^[14]), manageable price (ramen starts at $8USD), and viral demand beginning in November 2015, Tsuta began to use a lottery system to distribute 'meal tickets' to customers waiting hours in line to have a chance to be seated for the day.

^[undefined] It has since announced plans to increase seating to alleviate wait times of up to four hours.

^[undefined] Tsuta has now moved location to Yoyogi-Uehara.

Unlike many ramen restaurants Tsuta fashions their own soba noodles in house using a wheat based recipe and stone ground wheat for a natural-grain noodly taste instead of the standard flour based soba noodles.

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As of May 2016, Tsuta's ramen noodle meal bowls are sold in local franchise super-markets around the Tokyo area as its name brand has become internationally famous.

This marks the restaurant's first foray into prepared cuisine.

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