Moritaya Shiten Ota-ten (Miso Ramen)
Ranked #1 miso ramen shop in Gunma (Ramen Database 2024, multiple times; also #1 in April 2025). Uses Sano-style noodles with a uniquely sweet-spicy miso soup — white miso base with garlic and chili. Old-fashioned diner atmosphere loved by local families for many years. Parking lots often full at lunch, with indoor waits common. Tabelog 3.53/160.
Tabelog 3.53/160. #1 miso ramen in Gunma (Ramen Database, multiple times in 2024 and April 2025). Reports of 'tables full at lunch, wait needed' and '6 customers already at opening'. Regulars say 'the taste I keep coming back for' and 'I've been coming since childhood.' Only Ota store in the Sano-chain offers miso and curry. No PR. Decades of local trust.