Shimuja Ramen: Kagoshima Tonkotsu at a Downtown Miami Food Hall Ramen Shop

Shimuja Ramen Downtown sits on the third floor of the Julia and Henry's food hall at 200 E Flagler St, and its Satsuma Tonkotsu costs $18 on the restaurant's Toast ordering page. If you are hunting for a ramen shop near me in Downtown Miami, this counter brings Kagoshima style pork bone ramen to Flagler Street, and Toast lists it open every day from 11:30 am, until 8:30 pm Sunday through Thursday and later on weekends.

The first Florida shop opened in Davie, out in Broward County, and Miami New Times named Shimuja the best ramen of 2024 for that shop, writing that no establishment in South Florida makes a ramen broth quite like it. The brand tried Miami Beach with a 2019 pop-up on Bay Road that New Times covered, but the downtown counter is where it finally settled in the county. Time Out wrote that Shimuja found a second home at Julia and Henry's.

What makes the broth different is time. The Toast page describes an 18-hour, 100 percent pork bone broth made in house, and the Satsuma Tonkotsu is the cleanest way to taste it: smoked pork belly, bean sprouts, sesame oil braised kikurage mushroom, scallion and half a soft boiled egg over thick wavy noodles. Satsuma is the old name for the Kagoshima region, and Time Out says Maemura serves the ramen he grew up eating in his hometown.

For a bigger bowl, the Kagoshima Special costs $23 and loads the same broth with smoked pork belly, mixed vegetables, naruto, a whole soft boiled egg and fried burdock. Both tonkotsu bowls come in a spicy version finished with habanero spicy miso: the Spicy Satsuma Tonkotsu is $20, and the Spicy Kagoshima Special is $25. Habanero heat builds slowly, so stir the miso in a little at a time if you are unsure.

The bowl you will not find elsewhere is the Chicken Keylime Ramen, $18, which the menu says was inspired by the key lime of Key West. It pairs chicken with key lime juice, lettuce, red onion, scallion and half a soft boiled egg over thin straight noodles, and it is the lightest thing on the menu for a hot Miami afternoon. Vegetarians can order the Tofu Keylime Ramen at the same $18 price.

Rounding out the ramen list is the Tokyo Shoyu Ramen, $18, a soy sauce broth with three hour smoked pork belly, scallion and half an egg over thin noodles. It matters most at lunch, because the lunch special menu offers a dine in only Tokyo Shoyu for $9.50, one of the best ramen deals in the downtown core. FIU's Caplin News flagged the same $9.50 lunch bowl in a 2025 roundup of downtown and Bayside restaurants.

Shimuja is also a solid stop for Japanese curry rice. The Karaage Chicken Curry and the Pork Katsu Curry each cost $20 and come with rice, the house curry sauce and fukujinzuke pickled radish. Among the sides, Pan Fried Gyozas are $10, Takoyaki are $13 and Karaage Chicken is $14, while bao buns with pork, karaage chicken or tofu are $10 each. Our honest call for two people is one tonkotsu, one keylime and a single order of gyoza.

Customize sensibly. A soft boiled egg adds $3, extra chashu pork adds $5, and Kaedama, an extra serving of noodles, costs $4. With thick wavy noodles in the tonkotsu bowls, order kaedama only after you have eaten most of the first portion, so the new noodles land in broth that is still hot. Spicy miso can be added to any bowl for $2, a cheaper way to test the heat than ordering the full spicy version.

The food hall setting shapes the experience. Julia and Henry's is a multi-level hall, so you order at the Shimuja counter on the third floor and find a seat in the shared space rather than being seated by a host. The Toast page offers pickup and scheduled orders but no table booking, and since the $9.50 shoyu is dine in only, plan to eat it at the hall rather than carrying it back to the office.

Hours need a little care. Toast, which handles the counter's online pickup orders, lists 11:30 am to 8:30 pm from Sunday through Thursday, 11:30 am to 9:30 pm on Friday and 11:30 am to 10:30 pm on Saturday. The brand's own locations page lists later closing times for the Miami counter, so for dinner, plan around the earlier Toast schedule to avoid arriving after the kitchen has shut.

For a drink after your bowl, Lost Boy Dry Goods is a short walk along the same street at 157 E Flagler St, a downtown bar that opens at noon and runs until 2 am Monday through Saturday and until 1 am on Sunday. To walk off the noodles, head east to Bayfront Park at 301 Biscayne Blvd on the edge of Biscayne Bay, a few blocks away along Flagler.

Art fans can make a longer outing of it. The Perez Art Museum Miami, at 1103 Biscayne Blvd in Museum Park, is open Monday from 11 am to 6 pm, Thursday from 11 am to 9 pm, and Friday through Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm, and it is closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. Pair a Thursday evening at the museum with an early ramen dinner before the counter closes at 8:30 pm.

Practical notes: the address is 200 E Flagler St, 3rd Floor, Miami, FL 33131, inside Julia and Henry's. Online pickup and scheduled orders run through Toast, which also sells gift cards, and the brand lists Uber Eats and DoorDash for delivery. Prices in this guide come from the Toast menu for the downtown counter.

This ramen shop suits downtown office workers chasing a $9.50 lunch bowl, food hall groups where everyone wants something different, and anyone curious to taste a Kagoshima style tonkotsu without driving to Broward. Order the Satsuma Tonkotsu, add a soft egg, and try the Chicken Keylime if you are sharing. For more food hall and ramen ideas around Downtown Miami, ask the Karpo APP.