I finally went to a famous soba shop in Azabu-Juban with a tradition going back more than 200 years. Places like this are delicious pretty much 100% of the time. If a shop has survived 200 years on soba alone,…
Even though I live in Tokyo, I don’t get to Ginza all that often. These days there are sub-centres like Roppongi Hills, Shiodome and the Marunouchi Building that easily rival the old downtown, so there&#…
Okinawa soba is probably the most famous thing to eat in Okinawa. It’s cheap and tasty, so I stopped by a few places on this trip. Miyarabi, a Miyako soba shop we stopped at on the first day. It’s…
There was a place I really wanted to try whenever I got to Asakusa, famous for Senso-ji: Namiki Yabu Soba, which has made quite a name for itself in Tokyo for its soba. I’d been in the neighborhood once …
I went to Okuni in Izumo, a place famous for its miso ramen. That rich miso ramen broth looks like it would be great for a hangover. The thick braised pork was good too. The basic ramen The ajitama egg is goo…
Today I headed into Tokyo to buy a bunch of things my friends had asked me to pick up, since the exchange rate is good right now. The problem is that my own salary has effectively been cut… Oh well……
Late October is when the new-season soba comes out. So soba full of deep buckwheat aroma, eaten in late autumn, just can’t help being special. Honestly, I’m not really a big soba fan. Soba is basic…
Somehow I ended up hitting both a top-class soba shop and a top-class ramen shop in Tokyo on the same day. The details as we go through the photos.. For lunch I went to Kanda Yabu Soba. I head to Kanda regula…