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Our resident soba connoisseur hones in on the best eateries in the Akihabara and Okachimachi neighborhoods of Tokyo in this closely contested ranking.

Japan
(Akihabara • food • gourmet • Noodles • Okachimachi • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • soba • stand-and-eat • tachigui • Tokyo)

Nissin’s longest instant noodles ever are here to make you slurp like you’ve never slurped before

Casey Baseel
Feb 3, 2021

”Longer than usual” is a ridiculous understatement.

Japan
(crazy • Donbei • food • instant nodles • Nissin • Noodles • soba • weird)

Japan’s new instant noodle Rubik’s Cube is fiendishly hard【Photos】

Casey Baseel
Dec 30, 2020

Solving this block of noodles is no piece of cake.

Japan
(cool • food • instant noodles • Maruchan • Midori no Tanuki • Noodles • puzzles • rubik's cube • SNJO • soba • toys • weird)

Retro noodle soup vending machine is immortalized in an udon soup-flavored pound cake

Krista Rogers
Dec 1, 2020

One noodle-dispensing vending machine in the north of Japan is so beloved that you can now buy it in dessert form with a special box.

Japan
(Akita • cake • COK • food • Noodles • pound cake • SNJO • soba • sweets • udon • vending machine • vending machines)

Asakusa luxury – the best matsutake soba we’ve ever had at a price that can’t be beat

Katie Pask
Sep 25, 2020

Enjoy the taste of autumn without breaking the bank!

Japan
(Asakusa • autumn • COK • fall • food • matsutake • mushroom • mushrooms • Noodles • restaurants • seasonal • SNJO • soba • Tokyo)

How to turn a classic Japanese noodle dish into Studio Ghibli’s Totoro

Casey Baseel
Sep 12, 2020

Tororo turns into Totoro.

Japan
(anime • clever • cooking • cool • cute • food • Hayao Miyazaki • My Neighbor Totoro • Noodles • soba • Studio Ghibli • Totoro)

We try cooking yakisoba with real Japanese buckwheat soba【SoraKitchen】

Dale Roll
Jun 1, 2020

Does Japanese soba go well with yakisoba sauce? Will it hold up in a frying pan? We find out!

Japan
(cooking • experiment • Japanese food • Noodles • Seiji Nakazawa • soba • SoraKitchen • yakisoba)

Robot noodle chef starts working in Tokyo train station, serves up taste of the future【Video】

Casey Baseel
Mar 18, 2020

Our resident noodle expert tries out the robo soba.

Japan
(COK • cool • food • Noodles • SNJO • soba • stations • technology • trains)

Soba restaurant in Japan struggles to find new employee, rewords job ad and offers flood in

Oona McGee
Feb 21, 2020

There’s one surprising aspect of working at a 120-year-old Japanese restaurant that has everyone wanting to work there.

Japan
(employment • food • jobs • marketing • Noodles • Recruitment • restaurants • soba • work • work in Japan • working in Japan)

The top nine stand-and-eat soba noodle restaurants in Tokyo

Krista Rogers
Feb 11, 2020

Our resident soba expert ate at over 200 soba spots in the greater Tokyo area, and here are his top picks.

Japan
(cheap eats • COK • food • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • Tokyo)

Mega meat noodles in Tokyo: 2.6 pounds of meat, one bowl of soba, no regrets【Video】

Casey Baseel
Nov 25, 2019

An extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-extra-large order.

Japan
(big food • COK • crazy • food • Fuji Soba • meat • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • video)

Starbucks adds Japanese soba noodles to its menu…in Hong Kong?!?【Taste test】

Casey Baseel
Aug 24, 2019

SoraNews24’s resident soba expert finds out what happens when an American coffeehouse whips up some Japanese buckwheat noodles in Hong Kong.