I was first brought here by Expats who had been living here for a while. I am forever grateful for this introduction. The soba here is excellent cold or hot. The side dishes are delicious as well.This...
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...
It is a rare thing that food leaves me smiling for a good hour after I chowed it down, but the fresh tofu at Tamawarai did just that.
I ordered the chilled soba topped with freshly-made tofu, and wh...
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...
This soba shop near Shibuya’s NHK places importance on their ambiance. If you travel down their stone-paved approach, which is planted with at least 10 meters of bamboo on either side, you’ll fina...
The Tokyo Michelin guide 2008 awarded Takeyabu one star, recognizing it as an excellent restaurant in its category. Though Takeyabu is a soba restaurant, it doesn't look like one thanks to the creativ...
This is a stylish little soba place. It’s in the basement of a building most of the way up Dougenzaka. Even though it’s technically in a basement, it actually has a very wide open feel to it and...
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...
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...