HONMURA-AN

Seasonal Handmade Soba For Over 90 Years
[updated April 2026]

This large soba noodle restaurant in Ogikubo with 80 seats almost makes you forget you are in busy Tokyo. Here, bonsai trees of the season are placed in the center garden to be viewed from the windows. Honmura-an is over 90 years old and is the perfect place to enjoy original and flavorful soba. Their soba is handmade, with buckwheat flour freshly ground right before cooking. The content rate of buckwheat flour is carefully adjusted according to the season and weather. They are located only 10 minutes on foot from Ogikubo Station, and with a parking lot.

On New Year’s Eve and the few days before, it is customary in Japan to eat soba. They call this ‘toshi-koshi soba’ meaning ‘soba to pass the year’ and it became a tradition due to the belief that eating the long noodles represented long life and thus good health going into the New Year. If you are in Japan for New Year’s it is a great place to go.

Since Honmura-an is an old and traditional soba restaurant, it is a very popular place. Just be aware that you may have to wait for a table, but the experience will be well worth it!

*No reservation required
*Dessert-only orders are welcome too

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Translation: Enju
Photography: TFF staff