Last year’s People's Choice awards for the best ramen in Japan reveals visitors to the land of the Rising Sun look in all the wrong places for the country's top-rated ramen. Not only that, but according to travel experts, ramen-loving tourists don’t even visit during the right season for noodles.

Christine Capsuto-Shulman as Peep Bo, Lucca Troutman as Yum-Yum, and Amie Shapiro as Pitti-Sing. Photo by Ben Krantz Studio

Jaron Vesely (center) as Ko-Ko with the Gentlemen of Japan (L to R: Vinh Nguyen, Jon-David Randle, Nick Rodrigues, Michael Motroni). Photo by …