It looks like the Ippudo along Route 171 will be holding an event on Wednesday, October 16 where you can eat ramen for free.
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As the first part of Ippudo’s 34th Anniversary Founding Festival, they’ll apparently be offering free ramen through an event called the “Furumai Ramen Festival.”
They’ll be serving 340 bowls at lunch and 340 bowls at night, and it looks like numbered tickets will be handed out.
Ippudo Nishinomiya Kitaguchi↓
Here it is on the map↓
The address is 4-60-1 Maruhashi-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyogo.
Event Details
The event will be held for one day only, on Wednesday, October 16.
Ippudo’s business hours are from 11:00 to 0:00.
The free ramen will be one bowl of either “Shiromaru Motoaji” or “Akamaru Shinaji,” with a total of 680 bowls offered for free (lunch: 340 bowls, evening: 340 bowls). It also looks like you can order up to one extra serving of noodles.
About Numbered Ticket Distribution
The time when numbered tickets will be distributed seems to vary by Ippudo location.
For the Nishinomiya Kitaguchi location, the Ippudo website http://www.ippudo.com/ said the ticket distribution time was scheduled to be announced around 13:00 on October 11, but it hadn’t been posted yet.
List of Stores Offering Free Ramen
For anyone thinking, “I won’t be in Nishinomiya that day.”
Here’s the full list of locations offering free ramen this time.
＜3 stores in Kyushu＞ Daimyo Main Store, Nishidori Store, Kumamoto Juzenji Store
＜15 stores in Kanto＞ Ebisu Store, Kichijoji Store, Ikebukuro Store, Ueno Hirokoji Store, Komazawa Park Store, Gotanda East Exit Store, Shinjuku Island Tower Store, Machida Store, Yokohama West Exit Store, Shonan SEASIDE, Cross Garden Kawasaki Store, Hon-Atsugi MYLORD East Store, Chiba Store, Omiya Store, Takasaki Store
＜1 store in Hokkaido＞ Sapporo Hiraoka Store
＜3 stores in Tohoku＞ Sendai Aoba-dori Store, Sendai East Exit Store, Morioka Store
＜2 stores in Koshinetsu/Hokuriku＞ Niigata Store, Toyama Store
＜1 store in Tokai＞ Nagoya Main Store
＜5 stores in Kansai＞ Namba Store, Takatsuki Store, Kobe Motomachi Store, Nishinomiya Kitaguchi Store, Himeji Store
＜4 stores in Chugoku/Shikoku＞ Okayama Store, Matsuyama Store, Hiroshima Fukuromachi Store, Fukuyama Store
※The stores listed above will not be operating under regular business hours.
In Osaka, there are locations in Namba and Takatsuki, as well as Kobe Motomachi and others.（Links go to maps）
Finally
If this is the first part, that means there’ll be a second part too, right…?
They also ran a campaign in August where up to five draft beers were free, so Ippudo has been holding surprise events one after another.
