NHK's documentary program "Document 72 Hours" (General TV, Friday 10pm). On May Getsuku, they will be covering a long-loved 24-hour ramen shop in Hakata. For three days, they listened to the voices of people who came there in search of a simple, everyday bowl of ramen for just 290 yen.
Thin noodles in a light pork bone soup. Topped with green onions and roast pork, it's very simple. The setting for this episode is a Hakata ramen shop that has been loved by locals for a long time. A bowl costs 290 yen. It's open 24 hours a day, and is constantly packed with people.
Some people come at dawn after finishing construction work, some say they used to work in snack bars, and some say the taste reminds them of the times they visited with their families as children.
The program is a documentary program that sets up a camera at one location each time and observes the various human dramas that occur there for 72 hours. It listens to the stories of people who meet by chance and captures the "present" era.
