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Kourakuen Corporation operates the Kourakuen ramen restaurant chain in Japan and overseas. The business traces its founding to September 1954, and the company was incorporated in November 1970. Its registered head office is in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, and it is listed on the Prime market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange under code 7554. It makes noodles and gyoza at plants in Koriyama and in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture.
On 31 March 2026 it had 366 stores in 17 prefectures from Tohoku to Shizuoka and in Thailand: 346 directly run stores in Japan and 20 franchised stores, 11 in Japan and 9 in Thailand. In Thailand it first opened its own stores through KOURAKUEN Thailand CO., LTD., then moved to a franchise agreement with Thai President Foods. It had 581 employees on the same date.
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Front-of-house work at a Kourakuen ramen restaurant: seating guests, bringing out dishes ordered on table tablets, handling the register and resetting tables.
Front-of-house work at a Kourakuen ramen restaurant: seating guests, bringing out dishes ordered on table tablets, handling the register and resetting tables.
Front-of-house work at a Kourakuen ramen restaurant: seating guests, bringing out dishes ordered on table tablets, handling the register and resetting tables.
Kitchen work at a Kourakuen ramen restaurant: washing dishes and utensils, cooking gyoza, fried rice and ramen to set recipes, and keeping the kitchen clean.