Honke Owariya Main Branch

The service was prompt and the meal was delicious! I really enjoyed the soba noodles - very light, crispy and refreshing. You must try the warabi mochi dessert - I think it was the best thing I had on my trip to Japan! The mochi was very soft and completely melted in your mouth. It was easy to communicate with them - they have an English menu so no problem for tourists.

It is a soba noodle shop, and it is quite big. It mainly sells cold noodles and hot noodles. The cold noodles business is better, and many Japanese people just order a bowl of noodles. The taste is a matter of personal preference, soba noodles are not as soft and smooth as normal noodles, but it is still quite good.

This is a very delicious little shop, almost like an izakaya, but it mainly serves various noodles. Of course, there are also many Japanese snacks such as tempura, etc. The food is quite delicious.

The menu was in Japanese and there were no pictures. I was so helpless. I just ordered three dishes based on my feeling. Fortunately, they all tasted good. Japanese people love a set meal for one person, which is a bowl of noodles and a bowl of rice. How can you finish it? This soba noodles seem to be very famous. The noodles are very chewy, especially the cold noodles, which are very refreshing to eat with sauce.

A long-standing soba specialty store in downtown Kyoto, it's like a soba museum. On the day I went there, an American radio station happened to come to shoot a documentary. I feel like it will become the next Internet celebrity! But his reputation is already very big, and publicity is in vain. Maybe I went there early, there were not many people, I ordered a bowl of soba noodles with clear soup, and the dishes were served quickly. The Japanese couple at the next table seemed to be from other places, and they kept taking pictures like me. The whole restaurant is very large, full of strong Kyoto style, suitable for posing. From inside to outside, it reveals the temperament of a century-old store, and the waiters are also very polite. The soba itself is not a big selling point. I think the taste is better than the Michelin one-star Edogawa I ate in Tokyo last year. But that time I ate dipping noodles, this one chose soup noodles, the soup is quite good, it should be made with kelp and seafood, anyway, I drank it all! The tempura crumbs are very ordinary, not crispy at all. What was surprising was that such an old shop actually accepted card payment, which really kept up with the times; there were many buckwheat fruits downstairs, no wonder I seemed to have seen them in the food area downstairs of Isetan Department Store in Kyoto before~

Honke Owariya is a time-honored shop with a 500-year history. It is said that it was originally a candy shop, and now it is a restaurant that mainly sells traditional soba noodles. As one of the famous soba restaurants in Kyoto and even in Japan, they use Hokkaido buckwheat and hand-knead the dough, so the texture is very chewy. The most famous thing is their soba treasure box, which contains five small portions of soba noodles and another food box with five different ingredients. You can taste five kinds of soba noodles at once. The taste is good, the noodles are chewy and refreshing, the sauce is sweet, and the portion is moderate. Price: Soba treasure box 2160 yen, Tempura soba 1620 yen Address: 322 Nioumon Tokubacho, Nijoshita, Kamiyacho-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto Prefecture Opening hours: 11:00-19:00

I saw this restaurant in a magazine before I came to Kyoto. I thought there would be more people coming to see the maple leaves, so if you come early, you won't have to queue. It opens at 11:00, but I arrived at 11:15 and still had to queue. But I got in after 15 minutes, and the noodles were served quickly and tasted great. I ordered the signature dish, Horai Soba.

It's very delicious, but the queue is long. I recommend their signature noodles. There are five layers in total, but don't worry about not being able to finish it, the portion is just right. This noodle comes with instructions, 1. Choose your favorite side dishes and add them to the noodles 2. Pour a delicious soup 3. "You can start eating!!! There are 5 layers in total, so we can experience 5 different flavors!