Gassan in the northern prefecture of Yamagata, four women in their 80s work together in a popular soba-noodle restaurant. Many people come a long way to enjoy the grannies' soba. Each has her own ...

AKI, Kochi Prefecture—A roguish local cat has been making headlines for his dramatic entrances at a noodle shop with ... nimbly slides the restaurant’s front door open with his paws and ...

Not exactly what I was expecting to greet me at a traditional soba noodle house ... is stocked with rare Japanese whiskies, but the handmade soba is what makes the restaurant worth the visit ...

But what if I told you ramen actually originated from China and there is another type of noodle that's native to Japan? It's called soba. Sakura Yagi: It's interesting that people think that ramen ...

the crusty old artisan milling his own buckwheat flour in the Japanese countryside, fetching water from his grandfather’s mountain, serving it in a crumbling old honten inherited from that same ...

Chefs Saito and Rika present their unique approaches to cooking delicious Japanese food. In this episode, chef Rika will show you a plating technique for noodles using soba, buckwheat noodles ...