Rokurinsha Tokyo Ramen Street

The experience

The tsukemen shop that anchors Tokyo Ramen Street, the eight-shop noodle corridor in the B1 basement of Tokyo Station's First Avenue. Thick chewy noodles come cold and separate from a dense pork-and-fish dipping broth, finished with fish powder; you thin the leftover broth with soup at the end. It is a stand-in-line, eat-fast, give-up-your-seat kind of room.

The bowl most often named as Tokyo's benchmark tsukemen, and it is inside the station you are probably passing through anyway.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.