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Where to Find the Best Ramen in Hobart & Launceston
From tiny Hobart counters to Launceston noodle houses, these are the best ramen spots in Tasmania for tonkotsu, shoyu, miso, tan tan and winter-ready bowls.
Tasmania is good ramen weather. Hobart gets that clean southern cold that finds your sleeves; Launceston has the sort of winter streets where lunch needs ballast. A bowl of noodles makes sense here, not as a novelty, but as shelter: steam on your glasses, broth glossing the spoon, a counter seat, rain somewhere close.
The island’s ramen scene is small, but it has character. In Hobart, you’ll find izakaya bowls at Bar Wa, tiny-room precision at Ranita Ramen, and Kingston stops built for pork-bone broth, spice and sea-air detours. Launceston keeps things punchier, with tonkotsu, shio and mazemen sitting neatly among the city’s best casual eats. These are the best ramen spots in Tasmania for cold nights, quick lunches and days when only noodles will do.
The Best Ramen in Hobart
Bar Wa Izakaya
Bar Wa is a winter lunch that Hobart understands instinctively: steam on the windows, sake bottles behind the bar, ramen on the table before the afternoon has fully decided what weather it wants to be. The North Hobart izakaya serves ramen by day only, with tonkotsu the move for anyone chasing pork-bone depth, springy noodles and the particular satisfaction of a bowl built for cold Elizabeth Street air.
Specials change, and that is part of the fun, with past winter turns including smoky pork tonkotsu and miso beef meatball ramen. Go at lunch, order a Sapporo or yuzu highball if the day allows, and let Bar Wa do what it does best: Japanese pub energy with a distinctly Hobart edge.
216-218 Elizabeth Street, Hobart
Kodo Ramen
Kodo Ramen slips Sandy Bay into Hobart’s ramen conversation with a 10-hour pork broth and a menu that suits the suburb. Students, locals and wind-blown wanderers can settle into tonkotsu with pork belly, bamboo shoot, black fungus and egg, while the Oyster Ramen gives the bowl a briny little Tasmanian accent. The Vegan Dandan is no afterthought either, with sesame, peanut and mushroom mince bringing depth, heat and the right amount of winter heft.
Shop 15/236-244 Sandy Bay Road, Sandy Bay
RIN
RIN is less ramen counter, more small Hobart CBD Japanese favourite with a noodle bowl worth knowing about. The Macquarie Street restaurant is better known for bento boxes, sashimi, sushi rolls and karaage, but its ramen has the right winter credentials: soup made in-house from roasted chicken bones, vegetables and spices, with a Tonkotsu Ramen on the current menu for anyone wanting pork-bone broth without leaving the city centre. It’s a handy one for a fast lunch, an early dinner or a table where not everyone wants noodles.
196 Macquarie Street, Hobart
Ranita Ramen
Ranita Ramen is Hobart’s tiny lunch-hour treasure, a nine-seat Liverpool Street counter where Javi and Zoë García Tornel turn homemade noodles, careful broth and local produce into bowls worth arranging your day around. The shoyu is the classic move, layered with pork, chicken and dashi, while rotating specials might bring fish shio, spicy miso or whatever the kitchen has been quietly perfecting that week.
There is no great performance to Ranita, just a small room, a counter seat if you time it well, and the immeasurable pleasure of watching your bowl take shape across the bench. The care is in the broth, the noodles, the minute details.
Sitchu Tip: If the shiso leaf lemonade is on, order it.
206 Liverpool Street, Hobart
Panko Chan
Panko Chan brings ramen to Kingston Beach with a salty sea-air side quest. Better known as a Japanese-inspired fish market by day and japas spot by night, it also keeps a tight ramen list on the menu, from Tonkotsu and Miso to Goma and Spicy Tan Tan. The latter is the one for chilli loyalists, all rich, savoury broth and heat without turning lunch into a dare. Stay classic with gyoza or karaage, or make the beachside move and split the fish and chips while you’re there.
23 Beach Road, Kingston Beach
Iroyuki Ramen Bar
For tonkotsu ramen near Hobart, Iroyuki Ramen Bar is another hidden gem worth the short run down to Kingston. The kitchen specialises in Kyushu-style pork-bone broth, with a Tonkotsu Classic topped with chashu, corn, menma, black fungus, egg and spring onion. Tonkotsu Black folds in black garlic oil, while Tonkotsu Red brings chilli into the mix. Vegetarian and vegan ramen get proper space on the menu too, with soy-milk and miso-based broths, tofu and the same black-garlic or chilli treatment for anyone skipping the pork.
shop 5/14 Channel Highway, Kingston
The Best Ramen in Launceston
Pachinko
When Pachinko’s seasonal ramen lunch is running, it’s one of Tasmania’s most interesting noodle detours. The Quadrant Mall favourite usually works in a sharper, share-plate register at dinner, but its ramen menu has previously brought out bowls of tonkotsu with house charshu, ajitama, menma and spring onion oil, plus a dry mazemen with charshu, grilled mushrooms and the same salty, spring-onion snap.
Sitchu Tip: Check before you go, as ramen service has taken seasonal breaks in the past.
23 Quadrant Mall, Launceston
Gatsu Gatsu ガツガツ
Gatsu Gatsu is Launceston’s reliable ramen address for days when lunch needs heft. Since 2020, the Wellington Street ramen house has kept the city fed with a tidy menu of Japanese staples: Shiroi pork broth, Kuroi with black garlic, spicy Akai, Tsukemen for dipping, plus miso and shoyu bowls available with pork or vegetarian broth. Karaage, gyoza, takoyaki and onsen eggs round things out for anyone building a bigger table. In a city with a small ramen scene, Gatsu Gatsu holds its spot through hot broth, good sides and an easy central location.
17-19 Wellington Street, Launceston
From tiny Hobart counters to Launceston lunch spots, Tasmania’s ramen scene has more depth than its size suggests, with pork-bone broths, shio, shoyu, tan tan and mazemen worth seeking out when the weather turns. Still hungry? Keep eating your way around the island with our guides to the best Indian restaurants in Hobart and the essential restaurants in Launceston.
