Shinjuku / PLACE
Momo Thai
Choose larb-inspired pork noodles, shrimp tom yum or chicken rice at a small Thai restaurant serving around the clock outside its cleaning closure.
Visit fitTravellers eating out of rhythm · a late return
Instead of moving between alley bars, settle into one room for a meal. Larb-based Momo noodles, gapao and khao man gai make an off-hour return or early meal a practical choice.
Read “24 hours” with the cleaning exception. Consider the small room and ask about spice level for your meal.
Spicy noodles or chicken rice
Momo ramen turns the idea of larb, a spicy minced-pork salad, into a noodle dish. Tom yum ramen emphasises shrimp, while green-curry ramen takes a coconut-creamy direction. Even within the noodles, the choice is between meat, seafood and coconut. For a different starting point from spicy noodles, choose khao man gai, chicken with rice, and discuss the sauce and heat when ordering. Gapao is the rice choice for stir-fried minced meat. A dish name alone does not establish allergy suitability.
WHERE · On foot from here
Which side of the station, and how far
North-east of Shinjuku-sanchome Station, about 200 m in a straight line from the station point. The position is the official address point and may differ from the entrance. The shaded areas are about 5 and 10 minutes on foot from here.
Walking bands are computed by FOW on the OpenStreetMap surface street network at 80 m/min and drawn as a smoothed approximate area around the streets reached. They ignore exit positions, station interiors, underground passages, signals, slopes and routes inside buildings — not directions; follow on-site signs.
Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Walking bands: computed by FOW · Station and gate notes: official guidance (2026-10-16)
One main, or smaller plates
The July 2026 menu prices Momo ramen, tom yum ramen, gapao and khao man gai at ¥1,000 each. Add a ¥400 soft drink such as mango juice or Thai tea for a ¥1,400 meal. Extra-hot Momo ramen is a separate ¥1,200 item. Smaller choices include mini gapao at ¥390 and mini khao man gai at ¥470: both make ¥860, or ¥1,310 with the day’s ¥450 stir-fried greens. All prices include tax. The menu uses full-size photographs for the mini items, so pictures do not show their actual portions. A separate snacks section is addressed to alcohol drinkers.
A meal between the district’s other hours
The small ground-floor restaurant sits where Shinjuku 2-chome meets 3-chome. Round-the-clock service can serve an early meal as well as a late one, except for Monday cleaning from 14:00 to 17:00, moved to Tuesday after a holiday Monday. It offers a straightforward rice or noodle meal between the area’s other opening hours. Find it at 1F, Third Kowa Building, 2-16-3 Shinjuku. Cards, transport IC and major QR payments are listed.
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Before you go
- Hours and fees
- Open 24 hours except Monday 14:00–17:00 cleaning; when Monday is a public holiday, cleaning moves to Tuesday at the same time.
- Good to know
- The restaurant is on 1F of Third Kowa Building,2-16-3 Shinjuku. Cards, transport IC and QR payments are listed.
- Access
- Confirm entrance, seating and any required assistance with the operator before visiting.
Sources · image info
- Named restaurant target in operator map embedMomo Thai / Google Maps · as of 2026-10-05
- Current multilingual restaurant menuMomo Thai · as of 2026-10-05
- Yuhi Komiyama: Momo Thai食べログマガジン · as of 2026-10-05
- Momo Thai · Japanese dine-in menuMomo Thai · as of 2026-10-19
- Momo Thai — international guest informationMomo Thai · as of 2026-10-19
- Momo Thai · off-hour meal — Tabelog Magazine · resized and cropped
- Iseya · market breakfast — Iseya Shokudo · resized and cropped
- Manrai · west-side noodles — Tabelog Magazine · resized and cropped
- Takamaru Honten · a fish meal — Makoto Tamura / Retty · 2026-09 · resized and cropped
- Omoide Yokocho — Romain Guy · 2025-03-20 · CC0-1.0 · resized and cropped
