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Taito-ku
Tokyo
Japan
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Metro: Asakusa
Concierge.com's insider take:
For traditional soba noodles in Tokyo, you can't get much more authentic than the century-old Namiki Yabusoba in Asakusa. This tiny noodle shop, a block south of Kaminarimon Gate and the lantern-lit approach to the Senso-ji Temple, is a bare-bones restaurant of tatami mats and communal tables where the elderly staff delivers wooden bowls of homemade soba. The noodles come two ways: hot in a soy-broth soup or cold with a special dipping sauce, topped with seaweed, egg, or shrimp tempura. Namiki's renown derives from the special buckwheat from which the firm soba is made. The restaurant is surprisingly quiet for such small quarters, apart from the odd clatter of dishes and polite shouts into the kitchen at the white-haired chefs who appear to have been cooking here their whole lives.—Douglas Wright
Open daily 11 am to 7 pm.
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