Hachiya Ramen is bringing its slow-simmered tonkotsu broth and Japanese-style hospitality to a second Charleston-area address. The restaurant will open its new location on Nov. 2 at 654 Hopewell Drive, just off Clements Ferry Road in Cainhoy, serving the same menu that has drawn crowds to its original Mount Pleasant spot.
Hachiya Ramen is owned by Richard Milana and Yuichiro “Junior” Takebata, according to The Post and Courier. The original restaurant sits at 996 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. in Mount Pleasant and has been a hit with diners since it opened in 2024, per the same report. Known for its hot and cold ramen, karaage, gyoza and onigiri, the brand built its reputation on a signature pork tonkotsu broth-based noodle soup that takes a full 48 hours to prepare.
Same Menu, Slightly Smaller Space
The Clements Ferry location will be slightly smaller than its Mount Pleasant counterpart, but the menu and layout are exactly the same, the newspaper reports. That means fans of the restaurant's brothless cold ramen — chilled noodles topped with tender chashu pork, bean sprouts and a marinated Storey Farms egg — will find it waiting for them in Cainhoy just as they would in Mount Pleasant.
Starting Nov. 2, Hachiya Ramen Clements Ferry will be open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., matching the hours already in place at the original location. The new restaurant adds another dining option to a corridor near Clements Ferry Road that has been filling in with new businesses in recent years.
Hospitality Built Into Every Bowl
Milana and Takebata have said hospitality is an essential part of how the restaurant operates, from greeting customers and holding the door to directing them toward self-service machines and helping walk them through ordering. Staff are also encouraged to learn regular guests' names and their usual orders, a practice the owners describe as central to the brand's identity.
Our concept is nice quality food, very fast service, hospitality, and kindness from Japan, Takebata told The Daniel Island News. Takebata has said the restaurant's ramen itself functions as one expression of that hospitality, and that the business remains very focused on service above all else.
Bigger Ambitions Beyond Charleston
The Cainhoy opening is only the beginning, according to the owners. They hope to expand the concept well beyond Charleston while holding onto the food and service standards that built Hachiya's following, the Post and Courier reports. Takebata has framed that ambition in striking terms, saying the pair isn't thinking about just 10 or 20 restaurants but is instead weighing a scale of 100, 200 or even 1,000 locations.
Point Hope, the nearby planned community, has also been named as a potential site for a Hachiya Ramen outlet as its commercial core continues to grow alongside Pilates studios, pet services, ice cream and coffee shops, according to The Daniel Island News. Timing for that separate location has varied across reports: Point Hope Charleston said a Hachiya Ramen was planned to open at Goddard later in summer 2026, while a Daniel Island News report said the Point Hope location was still navigating permitting and was expected to open around September or October. It remains unclear whether those Point Hope references describe the same restaurant as the Nov. 2 Clements Ferry opening or a distinct project.
For now, the clearest date on the calendar is the one in Cainhoy. Diners craving Hachiya's 48-hour tonkotsu broth or its chilled summer noodle bowl will be able to walk into 654 Hopewell Drive starting Nov. 2, with the same recipes and the same hospitality-driven approach that first built the brand's name in Mount Pleasant.
