4 Must-Visit Noodle Restaurants Selected by Searching for ‘Summer’ ‘Tachikawa’ ‘Noodle Dish’ and Referring to Reviews on Gourmet Sites and Social Media

On bustling streets around Tachikawa Station, the transportation and business hub of Western Tokyo, you can find a wide range of eateries including not only Japanese restaurants such as tempura and blowfish and Korean ones, Italian ones, Yakiniku and Izakaya restaurants but also bars. In this issue, let’s focus on noodles that you can eat smoothly even on a hot and humid day. From the four genres of Udon, Soba, Ramen, and Reimen (Japanized Korean cold noodles), let us introduce highly rated eateries on major gourmet sites and social media.

Eateries listed are within 10-minute walk from Tachikawa Station.

The chewy texture and the way Udon noodles go down are irresistible! “Kagawa Ippuku Tachikawa” where the Udon chef trained at Michelin rated restaurant offers Sanuki Udon

Reference from Tabelog “Kagawa Ippuku Tachikawa“

‘Ippuku’ (一福) is a famous Sanuki udon restaurant with a long queue of udon lovers in Kagawa prefecture. And as the restaurant’s first outlet in Tokyo ever, it opened ‘Kanda Ippuku’ (神田 一福), a Michelin (Bib Gourmand) rated restaurant”, in 2015. “Kagawa Ippuku Tachikawa” (香川 一福 立川店) is managed by an udon chef who have trained at both ones. The features of the udon noodles here are its chewy texture in spite of the thinness of them and the smooth way they go down. Most-ordered menu item is ‘Curry Udon’ (カレーうどん), a collaboration menu with ‘Kitajimatei’ (北島亭), a French restaurant with one Michelin star located in Yotsuya. The curry which is made with the restaurant’s original fond de veau (deglazing) using A5 and A4 Wagyu beef and 10 kinds of vegetables is so rich and flavorful. You will enjoy the moderate elasticity of the udon noodles thoroughly coated with the curry soup. By the way, the soup stock is also provided in a separate bowl, so that you can adjust the thickness of the taste to your liking.

Opening Hours	11:00AM – 10:00PM *Short break between 4:00PM and 5:30PM on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (national holidays excluded)
Address	1F SK Nishikicho Bldg., 2-2-1 Nishikicho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo Prefecture
Access	A 5-minute walk from Tachikawa Station / An 8-minute walk from Tachikawa Washington Hotel
URL	https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1329/A132901/13209088/

“Soba Kaiseki Muan”, one of the top 100 soba eateries by a major gourmet site! Experience handmade soba noodles and home harvested organic vegetables

At “Soba Kaiseki Muan” (蕎麦懐石 無庵) which has been selected as one of the “Top 100 Soba Eateries” by Tabelog, a major gourmet site, for four consecutive years, you can have a luxurious meal time while enjoying jazz music played by a vacuum tube amplifier. The restaurant’s soba noodles are made from soba buckwheat raised and harvested in around Lake Sagami and Yatsugatake Mountains. By drying, aging and milling soba buckwheat and hand-making soba noodles, they come to have the perfect texture for your teeth and throat. The restaurant uses buckwheat husks as compost for organic cultivation and grows vegetables used in condiments and tempura in-house in order for customers to eat soba noodles without any concerns for ingredients. You can feel the fresh flavor of the ingredients and the enthusiasm of the owner from dishes where soba noodles and vegetables are carefully prepared from scratch.

Opening Hours	11:30AM – 2:00PM for lunch service and 5:30PM – 8:00 for dinner service / closed on Sunday
Address	1-28-5 Akebonocho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo Prefecture
Access	A 5-minute walk from Tachikawa Station / A 9-minute walk from Tachikawa Washington Hotel
URL	https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1329/A132901/13005984/

Enjoy the additive-free ramen made mostly with pesticide-free vegetables at “Toto Honten” pursuing the way of dishes that are delicious and easy on the body

“Toto Honten” (とと ホンテン) is a ramen restaurant where you can enjoy authentic ramen that are not only delicious but also healthy. As a matter of fact, all menus are additive-free and most of the vegetables used are also pesticide-free. Among the dishes the restaurant has to offer, the one we’d like you to try on a hot and humid day is “Chicken Tomato Ramen” (鶏トマトラーメン). It is a very unique bowl of tomato flavored flat noodles made from organic tomatoes sank in the soup with the deep aroma of naturally sun-dried lake salt and natural live shellfish extract. In addition to the fragrant chicken char siu, the delicious minced chicken, spinach in deep green and crispy diced onions are also exquisite accents delighting your eyes and tongue. In contrast of the richness of the flavor, it also has a refreshing taste at the same time.

Opening Hours	11:00AM – 2:00PM for lunch service and 5:30PM – 9:30PM for dinner service on weekdays / 11:00AM – 3:00PM for lunch service and 5:00PM – 8:00PM on weekends and national holidays / Closed on Wednesday (*Lunch service is available occasionally)
Address	3-22-15 Akebonocho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo Prefecture
Access	An 8-minute walk from Tachikawa Station / A 14-minute walk from Tachikawa Washington Hotel
URL	https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1329/A132901/13161446/

Make your choice of spiciness level and amount at “Michi” offering handmade Morioka Reimen with plenty of collagen and the best chewy texture

“Michi” (ホルモン焼肉・盛岡冷麺 道) a Yakiniku (Japanized Korean BBQ) restaurant established in 2018 in the concentrated district of Yakiniku restaurants in Tachikawa, is having attentions of West Tokyoites with the great reputation for its delicious A5 rank Wagyu beef meeting the owner’s strict standards and fresh hormones. Its homemade ‘Morioka Reimen’ (盛岡冷麺, Morioka is known as a birthplace of Reimen) also make this place very popular, the menu item loved by a famous actress Maki Mizuno. She fell in love with the Reimen and she often visits and enjoys it and sometimes even tweets about it. The noodles that are made by kneading the dough by hand are very chewy. In addition, the original soup with plenty of collagen, which was carefully cooked is also very unique. You can make your choice of the spiciness level among non-spicy, mid-spicy and spicy. Also, you get to choose the serving size from half, normal or big.

Opening Hours	Lunch  11:30AM – 2:00PM (only in May to August) / Dinner 5:00PM – 0:00AM (5:00PM – 11:00PM on Sunday and National Holidays) Closed Irregularly
Address	1-5-24 Nishikicho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo Prefecture
Access	An 5-minute walk from Tachikawa Station / A 9-minute walk from Tachikawa Washington Hotel
URL	https://tabelog.com/en/tokyo/A1329/A132901/13220466/