[citation needed] Although Nagasaki Champon is the best-known rendition, there are other variations found in Japan.

In the city of Akita, a version with miso broth is served, with the soup filling the bowl almost to the point of overflowing.

Champon was first served by Shikairō (四海楼, Four Seas House), a Chinese restaurant founded in Nagasaki in 1899.

According to the restaurant's website, this was based on a dish in Fujian cuisine, 湯肉絲麵[1] (pronounced as tó̤ng nṳ̀ sí mīng in Min Bei), which translates to "shredded meat noodles in soup".

One theory is that it was derived from the Hokkien word chia̍h-pn̄g (食飯), which means "to eat a meal",[1] which might fit the sense of "a hearty noodle dish made of mixed ingredients".