#torisoba

[ramenhaven]

Creamy Torisoba from Aya, Hong Kong

[foodies-channel]

🍥 Shoyu Torisoba at Torisoba Zagin Kagurazaka

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[pantherazuredevil]

Japan Trip 2023 - Day 3 (Yugashima Tatsuta) Part 1

I woke up feeling less rushed this morning as I knew I would not have to leave so early to catch my ride back down to Tokyo Station. It was a similar breakfast to the previous day, but I could eat more and it definitely was more filling. After that I went back to my room to finish preparations for leaving and checking out, and some chilling.

Once again, I walked from the hotel to Sendai Station instead of taking the subway. Leaving at 8:45 AM was an early choice compared to the train's departure timing, which I've already forgotten but perhaps around 9:30 AM or later. The distance was about 800m worth of walking but honestly it didn't even feel that far and I didn't really walk at a fast pace either, though that was largely because of my oversized and old luggage. The wheels could only go one way and it was of an old design. Considering it was passed to me free though, I can't complain, I can only live with it.

A last shot of Sendai Station to commemorate my stay here because I may never come back again.

Reaching the train station early also allowed me to find the platform I was supposed to go to more easily, but I then goofed up when I was waiting for the train because I didn't know at the time how to look for the carriage number (or car number) I was supposed to get on, and ended up far from my seat. I had to rush and get on just in time and left my luggage at the rear of the car.

Getting to my seat some idiot already was there with another guy, and I say idiot because this dick took my seat instead of sitting in his in the middle. Since it was a 3-seat row, I had the unfortunate booking of the aisle seat, but the ass took it instead. I didn't insist seeing as he was obviously Japanese and probably mistook the alphabets or didn't look at them clearly, and not that it made any difference to me where I sat if it wasn't the window seat. At least the ride back itself was uneventful, the window guy closed the shutter to sleep and I napped a bit as well.

Arriving at Tokyo Station, I went straight for something to eat in the station itself. I purposely timed my next ride to be at least an hour after I arrive, so that I could find time to eat something warm and not have to rely on ekiben. I settled on some ramen stall inside a GRANSTA department, which I believe is one of their larger departmental store chains that somehow also serves food, though I could be wrong. It was a decision based largely on how quick I could finish the food since I had to make the train for sure.

The torisoba ramen (basically chicken ramen) ended up being nice for what it was, and that was quite the surprise. At ￥950 it was a bit on the expensive side but still cheaper than the same thing in SG, and what's more it was pretty decent. The soup got better as I ate. No regrets.

After polishing off the ramen, I went to my train platform and waited after checking my car number properly this time. I wasn't about to repeat that mistake. Here's a video of the Kodama 725 (I think it is a video of it anyway, I don't remember) coming into the train station. This is the train I took and it was the most spacious yet of the few sks trains I took so far. My seat was right in front of the oversized luggage space at the back. There was no one else in the same row, so I moved to the window seat after we set off to enjoy the scenery and take a video of that.

The amount of leg space I had was staggering.

After the next stop I got startled by the train conductor who asked me why I was in that seat when no one was supposed to be there, like he came out of nowhere almost. He did warn me to move back at the next stop since there would or might be people coming on and I simply nodded. An oops moment but understandable request. In the end though, no one came on to take the seat at all till I alighted at Mishima with its great scenery.

Mishima isn't a major station compared to Tokyo but because it has sks running through, I suppose it could still be called one. It has no dedicated parts to shopping or whatever though, being what one would surmise as "more remote" though it wasn't actually the countryside or anything. I asked for the JR office and went there to confirm my way to the inn. I had to buy a separate ticket, and it was a little confusing for me at the time, the staff that I talked to didn't seem happy at talking with a gaijin either, which was of course a little off-putting but not incomprehensible. At least I was talking to him in Japanese. He did assist me fully with the ticket and stuff, so I was grateful for that.

I waited outside the supposed train that was to depart until I was sure it actually was the train I needed to get on, and you could see the age and the condition. This truly was an old train more reminiscent of the ones likely to be seen in the countryside.

It was a long ride to Shuzenji, the last stop for the train. A funny moment occurred during the ride when I tried to put my luggage on the upper racks and decided it was too risky, and had to bring it down because it wouldn't fit fully and there was the danger of it sliding and falling. An old man told me to adjust it while I was looking at it but I simply decided to take it down and put it in front of me holding it since, as I told him, "it's heavy". It was a lighthearted atmosphere and I knew he was trying to help.

Every room in Yugashima Tatsuta has a name and I was obviously unable to read mine. Maybe I should have asked.

Alighting from the train wasn't the end of the trip. I still had to take a bus, and I knew all this because I had previously watched a video of Yugashima Tatsuta, which had all the details. I immediately asked for the way to the buses and got directed there by the ticket staff. The bus was departing soon when I got there and swiping Suica worked, so I was thankful for that because I wouldn't know how to calculate the fare otherwise.

It was a long ride of about 30 minutes. I was actually afraid of missing my stop but it turned out that there would always be announcements of the name of each bus stop, and they weren't just in Japanese but in English too. I was like, damn, even though this is a semi-rural place, they even got announcements in English. As someone else later pointed out, tourists must come here often enough for them to need it, because the whole town looked like it was half-rural. Even the aunties gossiping and talking were pretty much what I expected, just that hearing them IRL made it so much more refreshing.

I had a little bump off the bus as I tapped my Suica where I had tapped it in like we would do back here in SG, but it turned out they had a different tap point for departure. Weird but fine. When I got off, some other guy who got off too and obviously wasn't Japanese asked me, in Japanese, where I was headed and I told him. He was surprised and said he works at Yugashima Tatsuta, so he brought me there through a shortcut.

A view from my room window of the river down below which the inn takes its concept from.

We chatted throughout the way there in Japanese, and I found out he's an Indonesian working there for 3 months now. It was a nice conversation and he was really friendly. We reached faster than I thought we would thanks to the shortcut and I really should have thanked him more profusely. I reached the inn and checked in, with all the explanations in Japanese given by someone whom I also assumed to be Indonesian as well.

It looks like foreign talent are being hired in large numbers now in the hospitality industry here, but they really can't help it if the locals don't want to do the job and if they also need actual English speakers to deal with the foreign crowd that would inevitably cross their borders and surge into their hospitality industry.

I reached my room, which was the same floor as the lounge and entry point. It's listed as the 5th floor of the inn, but you wouldn't know it since you would think it's the ground floor when you came in. The lowest level is the basement where we would have our food at the restaurant of the ryokan, and rooms are available through 6 floors. Here's a badly taken video tour of my room.

Amenities provided by the ryokan which I didn't use except for the towel. That on the right is the whole key they give you, that thing the key was attached to was heavy. Maybe it's because they don't want you to forget it. The view outside the room was quite lovely indeed though.

I settled in real quick and unpacked things that I knew I would need, getting more used to this by now. I checked the site provided with a QR code to see if Gekkabijin, one of the 4 private onsen available at this ryokan, would be unoccupied, but it was taken at the time. Waiting for a bit, I grew bored and decided to simply head down to another onsen beside Gekkabijin on the same floor. This was the main highlight of coming here and I wasn't about to let the opportunity slip to enjoy my baths.

Holy shit, the moment I got there, the elderly couple that had been using Gekkabijin got out, and it turned to unoccupied. What luck! I went in and immediately took it for myself. Here's a video of Gekkabijin I took.

Entrance to 月下美人 Gekkabijin, or "The beauty under the moon".

Man it was a good cleanse and shower with a most excellent soak after, what with the whole place to myself I only had to ensure that I didn't enter the bath all dirty. The entire stone bath had enough space for something like 3-4 people for sure, so monopolizing it felt like a guilty pleasure. I stayed in there just long enough to enjoy the reprieve from the cold weather, and thought to myself, "遇えてよかった".

After that, I went back to my room to update my journal. I also took the chance to open the section of the window that I could fully and sat there on the ledge enjoying the fresh air, nice breeze, river sounds and cool weather, which I was already getting accustomed to after the trial by fire (or ice) of Tashirojima. It was calming and soothing, with no sounds of cars or other modern thingamajigs to pollute my ears. Being able to sit by a window simply staring out into space and enjoying the breeze like that was something I've always wanted to do, and doing it here made it all the more enjoyable in such natural surroundings.

Continued in Part 2

[sean626]

Spicy chicken soba. 🍜🌶⭐️ #soba #chickensoba #torisoba #spicychickensoba #todayssoba #instasoba #sobaoftheday #sean626soba #chefsean626 #likeback #followback #iphone12 #辛鶏そば #スパイシーチキン蕎麦　#蕎麦　#今日の蕎麦　#蕎麦部　#蕎麦部アリゾナ州支部　#ショーンシェフ　#ショーンの蕎麦　#男の蕎麦シリーズ　#いいね返し　#フォロー返し　#うますぎ万歳　 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdpp-zhueUE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[yanarchy072]

・ ・ あっぱれ！美味い！ 鶏肉自体は好きなんだが鶏のスープが苦手、ニオいが。 でもね、ココのねスープはねニオわないのよ！柚子がまたいい！ 次回は1番苦手な白湯だな。 ・ ところで、底に鶏チャーシューが隠れてて美味いのなんのって！ ・ #得製潮そば #清湯スープ #あっさり #潮そば ・ #鶏そば #torisoba #ラーメン #ramen #お昼ごはん #lunch ・ #四谷 #yotsuya #東京 #tokyo #日本 #nippon ・ #instaramen #ramenstagram #instafood #foodstagram #foodporn #yummy #instagood #instapic (麺宿 志いな) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUy8JTmh4Xn/?utm_medium=tumblr

[fujikenmansioncenter-blog-b-blog]

新規オープン！西新宿の鶏そば かぐら屋で、完熟トマトの塩鶏そば(特製)。タバスコを添えて。amazingにおいしかったです。 #鶏そば #鶏そばかぐら屋 #かぐら屋 #かぐら屋新宿 #新規オープン #ラーメン #ラーメン巡り #ラーメンインスタグラム #ラーメンパトロール #ラーメン部 #トマトラーメン #完熟トマトの塩鶏そば #トマト #トマト料理 #つけ麺 #塩つけめん #濃熟つけめん #タバスコ #ramen #torisoba #noodles #foodstagram #新宿 #フジケンマンションセンター新宿支店 #富士建設工業 #初期ヤスドットコム (Shinjuku) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFOyKqCAytY/?igshid=u92kg1a1yelo

[cottea]

Ramen Diary - -Noodling continues #ramen #torisoba #toripaitan #hanamokoshi #namyoungdong #foodstagram #searchingfornoodles #missionramen #tamago #hosoi #라멘 #하나모코시 #먹스타그램 #남영동 #토리소바 #토리파이탄 #ラーメン #とりそば #とりぱいたん #はなもこし #たベスタグラム #ナミョンドン #フードスタグら https://www.instagram.com/p/CDbOsbnDNjj/?igshid=1d5ojk97kxecq

[kazekothestrange]

My entry for artimiss1238's MMD model contest. Good luck everyone! Yuri Nana was an antagonist I created a long time ago for the JoJo AU, meant to face down against the kids of mine and Shanna's OCs, and then I forgot about her for ages... until NOW baby, she's fully fleshed out!! Yuri is a Monitor Lizard chimera on her mother's side, descended from one of Dio's many experiments. Already Japanese-American, she had to deal with more bullying than usual because of her reptilian attributes, such as the patches of scales scattered across her body and claws that come out from under her nails. She'd always tear off her tail once it had grown back, just to keep anyone from seeing it. As a result, she hates her name because of the life it was attached to, and prefers to go by Garnet. Her stand, Heart (not pictured), is not suited for combat, so she's become very adept at knife fighting. Her name, following JoJo tradition, was derived from a band I was very into at the time, Garnet Crow, and two of its members, Yuri Nakamura and Nana Azuki! Credits: Base- angelofdarkness65 Head- Joshu0a926--c Face texture- Piscean, minor edits by me Body texture- Littlemisshorror Hair- Wt-Jok Ponytail- PeachMilk3d (Physics done very clumsily by me) Rose bun and Uta's piercings- MikuEvalon Dress- 8Tuesday8 Hoodie- SINNOLI Boots- Devious-Bunny Piercings- H-Y-P-N-O-T-I-C-S Nosering- Esysea Bellybutton piercing- ku-ya Tail- = Yukiyama = (on bowlroll) Tail scale texture- jojo-ojoj Claws- Amenrenet Knife: Torisoba

[zerouschin]

. 就像當時差了那麼一步, 然後就再也沒有然後了。能轉換一點情緒的話, 當然是用鮮醇的雞與貝, 好好的滋養療癒一番, 自然回血的必備品ー #淡麗鶏吉君 ,. #相機食先 #鶏白湯ラーメン #ラーメン , #台湾 #台北 #內湖 #拉麵 #雞白湯 , #鶏吉君 #雞吉君 #淡麗雞吉君 , #醤油 #はまぐり #雞白湯拉麵 , #foodstagram #japanesefood #ramen , #chickensoup #torisoba #hama #yummy , #美味しそう #ラーメン大好き , #麺活 #仕事終わりのラーメン , #taiwan #taipei #neihu #療癒 ,.（在 雞吉君拉麵 とりよしくんラーメン 雞白湯專門店）

[ramenhaven]

Torisoba Zagin Niboshi @ Shinsaibashi. Not that I have ate a lot of Tori Paitan Ramen but this is the best one so far! Slurp until the bottom of the bowl worthy!

[a2cg]

#月イチ限定 #とりそば を求めて #築地 #場外市場 にある #鳥藤 #鳥藤分店 へ。今月は #水炊きそばかき醤油仕立て お店によると #スープ は #牡蠣 だしからとった醤油に 濃厚な水炊きを合わせたとのこと。 #鶏白湯 が濃ゆいので言われなければ #かき醤油 だと気づきませんが理屈抜きで美味しい。 #麺 はツルツルでスープに負けない食感。 #かき #鶏もも肉 が旨いのは想像通りですが #鶏団子 は軟骨が入ってコリコリとしていて全体の食感と味のアクセントになっていました。もう少し昼時の遅い時間までやっているとありがたいのですが、すぐに売り切れてしまうので今後も可能な限り月イチで早飯しようっと。 #ラーメン #築地ランチ #築地モーニング 追記：築地の火事の後片付けが全て終わったようで鳥藤の向かいの料理道具屋の大野屋商店が元あった場所で青空営業されていました。 #tsukiji #toritou #torisoba #chicken #fishmarket #ramen #noodles #soup #oyster #tsukijilunch #tsukijimorning (鳥藤分店)

[sekikos]

焼肉の〆に椎茸味のとりそばを食べてみた。 #yakiniku #saltpeanuts #ramen #torisoba (焼肉ソルト・ピーナッツ)

[ramen-tokyo]

鶏びあんSoba みやみや（Miyamiya）「特製鶏びあんそば」

✔️Store name / Menu

✔️Nearest : 八王子駅

[yamacyan]

昨日のお昼ご飯は田町の青蓮にて鳥そば！ #昨日 #お昼ご飯 #青蓮 #おいしい #ごちそうさまでした #鳥そば #deliciousfood #lunch #torisoba (チャイナビストロ青蓮田町店)

[jefd3v]

NANASE Tom yum RAMEN Special. #tomyumsoup #wheninthailand #makelifeaspiritualjourney #herewego #vscocam #prisma #eyeem #torisoba #patpong #ramen (at Torisoba)

[tokyodollnl]

Torisoba. 4Hours slowcooked chicken stock with homemade ramen noodles. #tokyodollnlcook #tokyodollnlcooknoodle #ramen #ramennoodles #ramenstagram #japanesenoodles #japanesefood #japanesecuisine #chickenramen #chickensoup #鶏そば #チキンラーメン #slowfood #slowcooking #おうち居酒屋 #chicken #鶏ガラスープ #男の料理 #noodlestagram #麺スタグラム (at Japanse kookworkshop Nederland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLC-pC9AMJS/?igshid=9zr8yd4g6bf6