Asakusa Hirayama (Soba) 浅草ひら山

One day this past spring while getting my hair cut I picked up a copy of a magazine that was featuring soba that month. I soon forgot the name of the magazine, but I didn’t forget about a soba shop in Asakusa that looked worth visiting; Asakusa Hirayama. I get a lot of my soba ideas, and awareness of good restaurants, looking through the many food magazines published in Tokyo and Japan, including Hirayama. Unfortunately, while I […]

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Tansōan Soba 丹想庵蕎麦

Tansōan Soba Lunch   丹想庵蕎 I happened to be in Asakusa around lunchtime today so I decided to swing by one of my favorite soba shops, Tansōan, for a good—and cheap—tenpura and soba lunch. I’ve been a fan of this place for over ten years, since a year or two after it opened, back when I was trying to eat lunch at every soba shop in the area, way back before Kenji san, the owner, received a Michelin […]

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