TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 11, 2025--
Gourmet X Corp. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Fumihide Tomizawa), which operates Japan's No.1 frozen ramen online shop “Takumen.com”, held the ceremony “Takumen Ramen Awards 2025” on Thursday, December 11, 2025.
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The event “Takumen Ramen Awards 2025” is one of Japan’s largest ramen award ceremonies, aimed at fostering the further growth of Japan’s ramen culture. Japan’s best ramen restaurants were awarded in the following two categories.
Full press release: https://gourmet-x.co.jp/news/20251212b/
Special Website (Japanese): https://www.takumen.com/st/lp/takumen-ramen-awards-2025/
The "Japan Best Ramen Awards" Category, Chosen by Renowned Ramen Restaurants Chefs and ramen enthusiasts
Based on a survey of 1,000 renowned ramen restaurant owners and 1,000 ramen enthusiasts across Japan, asking which ramen restaurants they truly consider the best, we are proud to announce the winners: PLATINUM (10 restaurants), GOLD (30 restaurants), and SILVER (75 restaurants). This lineup showcases the very best ramen establishments in Japan.
“Takumen.com” Ramen Category
Based on over 400 varieties of ramen sold on Takumen.com between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025, rankings were determined across multiple categories. The Grand Award winners are:
To see the award-winning ramen restaurants, please visit
https://www.takumen.com/st/lp/takumen-ramen-awards-2025/
About Takumen.com
Official Website:https://www.takumen.com/
Takumen.com delivers the authentic taste of Japan’s most renowned ramen restaurants directly to your door. Offering frozen ramen prepared without altering its original taste and with the same ingredients used in stores, Takumen.com has sold over 5 million servings to date, achieving the No.1 ranking in online ramen and tsukemen sales in Japan. *1
More than 800 renowned ramen shops nationwide have partnered with us, and we have served approximately 570,000 members, offering around 1,900 products to date *2.
Source: *1 TPC Marketing Research, June 2024 survey.
*2 As of the end of 2025.
Restaurants:https://www.takumen.com/statics/restaurants
Official X (formerly Twitter):https://x.com/taku_men
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Gourmet X Corporation Official Website:https://gourmet-x.co.jp/
Takumen Ramen Awards 2025: Gourmet X Honors Japan's No.1 Ramen Restaurants
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Days of torrential rain in Washington state has caused historic floods that have stranded families on rooftops, washed over bridges and ripped at least two homes from their foundations, and experts warned that even more flooding expected Friday could be catastrophic.
Washington is under a state of emergency and evacuation orders are in place for tens of thousands of residents. Gov. Bob Ferguson on Thursday urged everyone to follow evacuation instructions as yet another river neared record levels.
“I understand that many in our state have experienced significant floods in the past," he said on the social platform X. "However, we’re looking at a historic situation.”
About 78,000 residents of a major agricultural region north of Seattle were ordered to evacuate the floodplain of the Skagit River, which was expected to crest Friday morning.
The floods were impacting large parts of the state, with several bridges flooded and some major roads inundated or washed out. Some roads had no alternate routes and no estimated reopening time, including a large part of state Route 410.
A landslide blocked part of Interstate 90 east of Seattle, with photos showing vehicles trapped by tree trunks, branches, mud and standing water.
In the north near the U.S.-Canada border, the cities of Sumas, Nooksack and Everson were evacuated after being inundated. The border crossing at Sumas was closed and Amtrak suspended trains between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.
Sumas Mayor Bruce Bosch said much of the city has been “devastated” by the high waters just four years after a similar flood.
The Snohomish River surged nearly a foot (30 centimeters) higher than its record Thursday in the picturesque city that shares its name, while the Skagit River rose just above its record Thursday night in Mount Vernon, according to the National Water Prediction Service.
Earlier Thursday, the Skagit just missed its previous record as flooding surged through the mountain town of Concrete.
The waters stopped just short of getting inside Mariah Brosa's raised riverfront home in Concrete, but the raging river still slapped debris against her home and totaled her fiancé's work car, she said.
“I didn’t think it would come this high,” she said.
Flooding from the Skagit has long plagued Mount Vernon, the largest city in Skagit County with some 35,000 residents. Flooding in 2003 displaced hundreds of people.
A floodwall that protects downtown passed a major test in 2021, when the river crested near record levels. Water was at the foot of the floodwall as of late Thursday morning, Mayor Peter Donovan said.
In nearby Burlington, officials hoped dikes and other systems would protect their community from catastrophe, said Michael Lumpkin, with the police department.
Authorities across Washington state in recent days have rescued people from cars and homes after an atmospheric river soaked the region.
Helicopters rescued two families on Thursday from the roofs of homes in Sumas that had been flooded by about 15 feet (4.6 meters) of water, while the city's fire station had 3 feet (91 centimeters) of water, according Frank Cain JR., battalion chief for Whatcom County Fire District 14.
In nearby Welcome, erosion from the floodwaters caused at least two houses to collapse into the Nooksack River, he said. No one was inside at the time.
In a football field in Snoqualmie, a herd of elk swam and waded through neck-high water.
East of Seattle, residents along Issaquah Creek used water pumps as rushing floodwaters filled yards Thursday morning. Yellow tape blocked off a hazardous area along the creek.
Climate change has been linked to some intense rainfall. Scientists say that without specific study they cannot directly link a single weather event to climate change, but in general it’s responsible for more intense and more frequent extreme storms, droughts, floods and wildfires.
Another storm system is expected to bring more rain starting Sunday.
Rush reported from Portland, Oregon. Associated Press writers Gene Johnson and Hallie Golden in Seattle; Martha Bellisle in Issaquah, Washington; Mark Thiessen in Anchorage, Alaska; and Mead Gruver in Fort Collins, Colorado, contributed to this report.
Floodwaters surround barns in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)
A semi-truck crosses a flooded street in Abbotsford, British Columbia, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP)
A cow drinks from the flooded Snohomish River in Snohomish, Wash., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)
A n aerial view of a home and a barn surrounded by floodwaters in Snohomish, Wash., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)
