I much preferred a place in downtown Kyoto that served a nice cleaner broth with really proper Chashu, but none of my friends of any kind would take that over the filthy gut rot tonkotsu at the cheap stall farther up the street. Most Jpn called it Assari, though that might be a reference to the taste and not the actual name. Those heavy tonkotsu places stink like somebody died, and dropped a big stinky when they did.