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No. 26 in the world · November 2026

Kanda Matsuya

Kanda Sudacho · Tokyo, Japan

zaru sobaNo. 26
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The one bowl to order

Mori soba (cold, with the dipping sauce), then the hot soba water poured into what's left

The line to expect: A line at lunch; it moves.

A soba house in a prewar wooden building, run the old way since the Meiji era.

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Cold zaru soba with dipping sauce

Cold zaru soba with dipping sauce

25 min (plus 30 min to cool the sauce) · 2. The purest noodle: buckwheat, cooked briefly, chilled, and dipped in a dashi-soy sauce. In winter the same noodles go into hot broth (kake soba).

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