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Ajisen Ramen

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Japanese fast food restaurant chain

Ajisen Ramen (Japanese: 味千ラーメン, simplified Chinese: 味千拉面; traditional Chinese: 味千拉麵; pinyin: Wèiqiān Lāmiàn) is a Japan-based chain of fast food restaurants selling Japanese ramen noodle soup dishes. The company's logo, featuring artwork of a little girl named Chii-chan, can be found on their stores and products.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1968Founded1

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Ajisen Ramen (Japanese: 味千ラーメン, simplified Chinese: 味千拉面; traditional Chinese: 味千拉麵; pinyin: Wèiqiān Lāmiàn) is a Japan-based chain of fast food restaurants selling Japanese ramen noodle soup dishes. The company's logo, featuring artwork of a little girl named Chii-chan, can be found on their stores and products. Outside of Japan, Ajisen Ramen has outlets in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Marianas, Mongolia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United States, Vietnam, Morocco and Panama. There are over 700 Ajisen Ramen restaurants.2

The story

1968 – Pork bone white soup based Tonkotsu ramen from Kurume, Fukuoka was modified with garlic flavour by a Hakka person from Meinong, Taiwan in Kumamoto, Japan. He is the founder Takaharu Shigemitsu (Japanese: 重光孝治 Shigemitsu Takaharu), or original name Liu Tan Hsiang (Chinese: 劉壇祥).

1972 – Shigemitsu Industry Co., Ltd. was incorporated and a noodle and soup factory was established. Franchising was started by the company.

1994 – The first oversea joint venture business was started at Taipei, Taiwan. It ended three years later without success.

1996 – With the death of Takaharu Shigemitsu, his son Katsuaki Shigemitsu took over the business. Daisy Poon (Chinese: 潘慰) opened the first store in Hong Kong under license of Ajisen Ramen.

2007 – Ajisen Ramen (China) Ltd. was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ajisen Ramen, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • ramen

Listed on Wikidata.1

Japan

Hokkaido

Tohoku - Aomori Prefecture

Kanto - Ibaraki Prefecture

Chubu - Shizuoka Prefecture, Nagano Prefecture, Nagoya, Gifu Prefecture

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Kansai - Osaka Prefecture, Wakayama Prefecture

Chugoku-Shikoku - Hiroshima Prefecture, Kochi Prefecture, Ehime Prefecture

Kyushu - Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, Oita Prefecture, Miyazaki Prefecture

Kumamoto Prefecture - about 70 stores

Okinawa Prefecture

Hong Kong

There are several locations in Hong Kong, with one of them being at the Hong Kong International Airport.

China

Since its inception, Ajisen Ramen has made significant headway into the Chinese market, especially in the metropolis of Shanghai, where it has 132 locations. There are a total of 590 Ajisen restaurants in the China region as of August 2011. Those expansion of stores were started by present CEO of Ajisen Ramen (China) Ltd. (SEHK: 538), Poon Wai (潘慰) from Hong Kong in 1996.

The current president of the Hong Kong-listed Ajisen China Holdings is businesswoman Poon Wai. The company's executive directors were Poon Wai, her brother Jason Poon Ka Man (潘嘉聞), and Yin Yi Bing (尹一兵). Yan resigned on 18 July 2013.

In 2011 the Chinese company was fined 200,000 yuan for misrepresenting the nutritional content of its soup.

Canada

There are ten locations in the Greater Toronto Area:

Ajisen Ramen - two in Markham, Ontario

Ajisen Ramen - five in Toronto (Downtown, Chinatown, Yonge/Eglinton, North York, Scarborough)

Ajisen Ramen - Vaughan, Ontario

Ajisen Ramen - Newmarket, Ontario

Ajisen Ramen - Ajax, Ontario

Two in Windsor, OntarioOne in Waterloo, Ontario

United States

There are a number of locations in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and the first Ajisen Ramen restaurant opened in San Diego in November 2016.

Corporate manufacturing and distribution headquarters for U.S. operations supplies U.S. stores as well as Guam is located at S. El Monte, Los Angeles, CA.

Panama

Panama City

Ajisen Ramen Via Brasil

Ajisen Ramen El Dorado

Ajisen Ramen Costa del Este

Europe

Ajisen Ramen opened a new outlet at Helsinki Airport in Finland in 2019. This is the first location in the Nordic countries and the second in Europe. The restaurant opened in the newest part of the ongoing terminal expansion at the airport in early 2019.

Ajisen Ramen also has an outlet in Rome Fiumicino Airport.

Singapore

There are currently 14 outlets in Singapore, a few being located at:

AMK Hub

Bedok Mall

Compass One

Waterway Point

Vivocity

Philippines

Robinsons Place Manila

Sto Domingo, Quezon City

V.A. Rufino St, Legaspi Village, Makati

Ortigas Center, Pasig

Robinsons Place Las Piñas

Double Dragon Meridian Plaza

Robinsons Magnolia

Robinsons Galleria

Ayala Malls Manila Bay

New Zealand

Newmarket, Auckland

Henderson, Auckland

Takapuna, Auckland

From Wikipedia’s article on Ajisen Ramen, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

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