I am staying with my friend in Yahiro right now, a suburb of Asakusa. It’s a pretty cool place to stay because there are no tourists there, and it’s working class families. There are a lot of mom and pop kind of shops. I was told tiny soba shops like this are rare these days. Every day they prepare noodles from scratch, and sell them for less than a dollar a serving.

April 20th, 2010 by John (Cho-Tabetai)