Ramen Arashi was created by Ken Seki and Yuji Yokomori in 2017 out of a desire to bring authentic Japanese Ramen culture to their home in Canada. The first location was in Banff. It was in a nondescript second floor of a shopping mall on the strip, and during those first couple of years, Ken and Yuji worked tirelessly on their menu in hopes of bringing the very best regional Ramen styles into one menu. It was an immediate success. A second location in Canmore quickly followed with similar success, and their first franchise opened in Victoria in 2022.