A no-auth MCP ramen map for 62,000 Japanese shops
TaleNo4998 · reddit · 2026-07-20
The author built a no-auth MCP server for 62,000+ Japanese ramen shops, designed to be queried directly from Claude Desktop.
What it includes
- Coverage across all 47 prefectures
- No API key, signup, or auth required
- Each shop record includes Japanese and romanized names, address, latitude/longitude, nearest station and distance, style classification, and monthly re-crawl–based liveness status
How to use it
Add this MCP config in Claude Desktop and query it like a live ramen map:
- find ramen shops on remote islands
- locate the northernmost ramen shop in Japan
- search for tonkotsu ramen within 500m of a station
Notable technical point
The hardest part was romanization. The author ran a dual-LLM audit on 53,502 names and says a naive baseline got 50.4% of them wrong.
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