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Ramen with simmered tuna cheek meat and soup made from bluefin tuna bones in Tokyo's Koto Ward
LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 4, 2025
Novel seafood noodles become flavor of the moment in Tokyo
Noodles served with tuna, yellowtail, whale meat or other ingredients are gaining in popularity.
Toranosuke Katayama is a photographer who's photo assignments lead him to become a soba researcher with 70 publications on the cuisine.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Dec 22, 2023
Toranosuke Katayama: ¡®Soba is about saving history and identity¡¯
A photographer who chose to document soba for a book soon found himself drawn into the deeper world of the buckwheat noodle.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / 51³Ô¹ÏÍøESE KITCHEN
Jul 2, 2023
Recipe: Chilled lime soba
A common saying among Japanese noodle lovers goes: ¡°Udon in the west, soba in the east.¡±
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE RECIPE BOX
Mar 5, 2023
Recipe: ¡®Smoky¡¯ soba
A boiling pot of cultures and noodles fit for any appetite.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / 51³Ô¹ÏÍøESE KITCHEN
Dec 11, 2022
Recipe: Kakiage soba
Casting about for the perfect Japanese meal to close out this year and ring in the next? Look no further.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 27, 2021
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Already home to top-notch craft beer and cocktails, new investment sees Niseko becoming even more of a five-star destination.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jun 5, 2021
At Dashin Soan, handmade noodles take pride of place
Expect refined ambience, a selection of elegant appetizers and top-notch soba.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 2, 2021
Have you ever heard of the ¡®three great noodles of Morioka¡¯?
Known collectively as the ¡°Morioka sandaimen,¡± each dish features a noodle with distinct cultural roots.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / 51³Ô¹ÏÍøESE KITCHEN
Dec 19, 2020
This is the quintessential Japanese noodle dish you should eat over new year
Toshikoshi soba is a comforting dish best enjoyed slowly, perhaps with some sake, while you quietly plan ahead for a better 2021.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 24, 2020
Top 5: Tokyo¡¯s best soba restaurants
Soba noodles are Tokyo¡¯s original fast food, simple and filling. Whether you prefer them hot or cold, here¡¯s five soba shops worth a trek across town.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Feb 29, 2020
Izakaya Aobadai: Classic soba, new-wave sake and cherry-tree views
It¡¯s an excellent sign when the first sight that greets you at a restaurant is a gleaming refrigerator filled with some of the best sake in Japan. When the next thing you see is a room set aside for rolling out and cutting soba noodles, it¡¯s even better. To find both of these as you enter LDH Kitchen...
Japan Times
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Dec 15, 2019
60% of Japanese eat something special for Christmas, poll finds
A recent Jiji Press survey has shown that 57.4 percent of people in Japan eat something special for Christmas and that about half of such people buy take-out food.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Dec 7, 2019
The sound of silence
¡®That guy¡¯s eating a bowl of soba without making any sound whatsoever.¡¯
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Jul 20, 2019
Aoyama Kawakami-an: Sobaya that lets its hair down at night
Arrive at Aoyama Kawakami-an at midday and you¡¯ll find a typical upmarket noodle shop. But return after nightfall and it has a very different feel.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Apr 27, 2019
Aozora Blue: Hand-made udon with a soba inflection
At Aozora Blue, chef Hirofumi Matsui draws on his soba-making experiences to offer an exquisite, handmade udon noodle in an elevated setting.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE 51³Ô¹ÏÍø?
Apr 20, 2019
Shuichi Kotani: Taking soba noodles worldwide
From working at McDonald¡¯s in Himeji to making noodles for Japanese restaurants in America, Shuichi Kotani has always looked for and taken opportunities.
Japan Times
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 5, 2018
Using their noodles: Fukui school¡¯s soba club hopes to roll to national title
Noodle club members from a high school in the city of Fukui are hurriedly honing their soba-making skills to prepare themselves for the national high school championship in Tokyo later this month.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 5, 2018
Sobagami: Soba noodles served with quiet formality
Sobagami is a soba noodle specialist — this you can guess from the name — but it is also an offshoot of the very genteel Ginza Kamiya, a high-end kappu014d that takes pride in doing things the right way.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 27, 2018
Okinawa soba: Noodle of the island king still popular today
Okinawa soba: Noodle of the island king still popular today
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Dec 31, 2017
A decade on, Shonan surfer is still making waves in the world of soba
Fate intervened when the heavens opened, guiding Ippei Hayashimoto on his path to mastery in the art of pure buckwheat noodles.
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Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
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Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
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The 180-day locals: Life on Japan¡¯s digital nomad visa
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