Kawara Soba (瓦そば) is a traditional Japanese dish of Shimonoseki City in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Locals make this by placing the cha soba and ingredients on a heated tile and eating it in warm noodle ...

The restaurant’s menu showcases classic Japanese cuisine (think: sashimi, oshi sushi, and small share plates like tuna tataki and truffle gyoza). The star of the show, though? That would be the ...

Post-Covid-19 “revenge travel” and the weakest yen in decades have fuelled a tourism boom in Japan, with visitor numbers for 2024 looking certain to exceed 2019’s record of 31.9 million ...