Where to eat Edomae soba in Tokyo: 1 editor pick

Edomae soba is the buckwheat noodle Tokyo perfected in the Edo period: cold seiro served on a bamboo tray with dashi-shoyu dipping sauce, or hot kake in clear dashi.

Soba shops spread across Edo from the 1690s after a famine pushed buckwheat into the city's diet. By 1860 there were 3,800 soba counters in Edo, with three lineages dominating: yabu (Kanda Yabu Soba), sunaba (Osaka origin) and sarashina (Shinshu origin). Kanda Yabu Soba's 1880 main shop reopened in 2014 after a fire and still serves the canonical seiro and kamo nanban.

1 editor pick for Edomae soba in Tokyo, ranked by editorial score. All Tokyo signature dishes · Edomae soba across every city.

Kanda Yabu Soba ★ 4.5

Edo-style soba

kanda · 2-10 Kanda-awaji-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0063

Kanda Yabu Soba in Tokyo has served Edo-style buckwheat noodles since 1880. The current building reopened in 2014 after a fire, sing-song order calls intact.