Juichiya

For chilled tanuki soba, the texture of the tempura scraps is part of the pleasure. One diner singled out their crispness and toasted flavour. The menu also includes chilled grated-daikon soba and zaru soba, served cold for a choice to suit your mood.

A set with a mini tempura rice bowl is an option when you want noodles alongside a rice dish. Choose hot soba or udon, or cold soba or udon served with dipping sauce. Diners who tried the mini tempura bowl with soba praised the noodles’ bite and broth; one also found the bowl’s mildly sweet sauce easy to enjoy. Another diner noted how well the sauce went with the rice and described the shrimp as substantial.

For a meal centred on noodles, the menu also features hot tempura soba and curry nanban. Diners have enjoyed the combination of tempura and soba, while the menu lists soba with shrimp and vegetable tempura, as well as curry nanban with fried tofu.

There are plenty of ways to add a small plate to a meal or have something alongside a drink. Options include板わさ—sliced fish cake with wasabi—fried soba-gaki and satsuma-age, a fried fish cake. Beer and soba shochu are also listed. Payment is cash only, so it is worth being prepared before you arrive.