I enjoyed a late lunch/ early dinner here after spending the day at the Edo-Tokyo Museum. It was a fitting meal after a day filled with Japanese culture and history.
This shop is over a hundred ye...
You’d be forgiven if you missed the cryptic entrance to Kosetsu. A small sign about the size of a postcard on the door of an anonymous building on a minor road in Ginza is the only clue to its exist...
I am happy to report that this restaurant makes one thing and one thing only, SOBA. I was first struck by the price, most things on the menu are nearly as cheap as a school cafeteria (which is general...
Minatoya is a small, crowded shop that particularly popular amongst businessmen that are on their lunch break. There is neither an English menu nor one with pictures, but since there are only 6 items ...
There comes a point where soba is just soba. At it's best, it's wholesome but rather plain. Fukudaya does it well. The restaurant is located down an alley in Shibuya, and it's on the second story of a...
There's something about Namiki Yabusoba that makes it feel like you've just walked into a soba restaurant in old Edo. Or, at least, there's something about it that makes it feel like the set of a well...
After hunting around for the restaurant for a short while, we finally found a small very traditional looking place with really old kanji that I could barely recognize written on the front. The place w...
This is a quaint neighborhood soba shop with an excellent traditional atmosphere. It's a little bit cramped, but very pleasant. There was no English menu, but there was a Japanese one with limited pic...
A charming, thoroughly Japanese restaurant. However, be careful-there is no English or picture menu, nor does the server speak English. However, if you can get past the language barrier, this hole-in-...
I guess the nice thing about this place is the utter privacy. I don't think it ever gets very busy, and if it did, the old man couldn't handle it. There's only about 4-5 tables inside, 4 chairs to eac...
Tongarashi is a small little soba and udon with tempura shop that is run by an old couple. One thing that really sticks out about this place is the prices. Most of the meals were about 350-400yen fo...
This Soba shop is quite nice on the inside with all sorts of decorative statues and place settings, but that’s as far as it goes. The interior is set up very well and is extremely welcoming and ple...
If you walk a little ways down Street 254, near Ikebukuro Station, you’ll find this izakaya in the first floor basement of a building on the left side of the street. Their selection of sake is espec...
Nagara is hard to recognize, so bring a map and look for a wooden sign - it's in the residential district behind Akasaka Elementary School. Besides handmade, clear soba noodles, side dishes like "dash...
Okina received one star from the 2009 Michelin guide. Their specialty is soba, and they do their utmost to preserve the tradition surrounding these noodles. To complement the food, they bring top ingr...
Established in 1789, Sarashina is a well known Soba restaurant with over 200 years experience of serving its customers. After your walk from Azabu Juuban station, Sarashina’s cold Soba will be refre...
Since it opened in 1899 this soba restaurant has been popular for its handmade noodles. In addition to soba a nabe set course is a popular dinner choice and includes soba-gaki (a solid soba based dis...
Authentic soba shipped from Shinshu is served at Oraga, located in the Shinjuku Isetan shopping center. Family friendly tables are available. There's usually a line out the door during mealtimes, stre...
Shimada is famous for its "curry soup udon." The restaurant is divided between two floors, and the first floor is cramped with tables. A wide range of people enjoy the food: small groups may treat S...
Kyobashi Megumi-ya is a standing-up soba restaurant in the day time, but turns into a standing-up izakaya at night. Megumi mori, the restaurant's specialty, comes in an extra-large size (ask for "mori...