How far would you travel for a really good meal? To savor a bowl of charred-soy ramen at the family-owned Rishiri Ramen Miraku, you’ll need to take some combination of planes, trains and ferries to an island off Japan’s northernmost tip. But we promise this dish—featuring locally harvested kombu seaweed as the not-so-secret ingredient—is totally worth the trek.

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