{"id":400,"date":"2025-05-16T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=400"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:30:06","slug":"japanese-train-station-noodle-restaurant-with-122-year-history-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Japanese train station noodle restaurant with 122-year history closes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Customers come out for one last bowl of soba at Nenoue<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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May 11 was a bittersweet day at Nakatsugawa Station<\/strong> in Gifu Prefecture<\/strong>. It was also a salty and savory day, but the mood was wistful as soba noodle restaurant Nenoue Soba<\/strong> said goodbye to customers and permanently closed.<\/p>\n

Nenoue Soba was said to be the last remaining tachigui (stand-and-eat) soba restaurant on a train station platform in Gifu Prefecture, but that\u2019s not the only thing that made it special, as Nenoue\u2019s history stretches back to 122 years ago<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u25bc Nenoue Soba<\/p>\n

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\u2014 \u4e0a\u3061\u3083\u3093\u3010\u99c5\u5f01\u306e\u5c0f\u7a93\u3011 (@ekibento) May 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Station platform tachigui soba restaurants used to be fairly commonplace in Japan, and were popular as places where travelers and commuters could grab a quick hot meal at an affordable price while waiting for their train. Over the years, though, they\u2019ve become harder to find, as alternative options for people who\u2019re hungry and in a hurry, such as convenience stores and fast food chains, have proliferated.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a bit of room for semantic debate about whether Nenoue Soba is a true platform restaurant, as it\u2019s located slightly off the actual passenger boarding area. What can be definitively said, though, is that the restaurant\u2019s story begins shortly after the opening on Nakatsugawa Station itself in December of 1902, when it began as Baishintei<\/strong>, a restaurant that sold bento boxed lunches. When the station underwent renovations in 1978, Baishintei renamed itself Nenoue and transitioned to being a soba restaurant, which it\u2019s operated as ever since.<\/p>\n

\u25bc No seats and a dining counter connected to the kitchen lets customers who\u2019ve got a train to catch get in and out as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 \u305d\u3070\u7c89 (@kimimoosuzuranN) May 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the past 20 years, Nenoue Soba has been operated by a married couple, Mr. and Mrs. Ando<\/strong>, and two other employees. However, due to health issues Mr. Ando has been in the hospital since last fall, and keeping the restaurant going become too large a task for just three people to handle, so it was decided to close Nenoue permanently on May 11.<\/p>\n

122 years is a long time to build up a customer base, and so on the restaurant\u2019s last day a line of people who\u2019d come for one last bowl of soba had formed even before the restaurant opened.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 yas horihori (@Horihori971) May 8, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One customer said he\u2019d been coming to Nenoue Soba for over 50 years, and is part of a multi-generational family of fans. \u201cI\u2019d come here with my grandpa. He\u2019d have a cup of sake while I ate my soba,\u201d<\/strong> he reminisced. \u201cI\u2019d stop in for a bowl of soba on my way to work in the morning, psyching myself up for the day ahead,\u201d recalled another. \u201cIt\u2019s like this place raised me\u2026the lady at the counter would say \u2018Do your best today\u2019 when I left, and it made me feel so happy<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel a sense of calm now that it\u2019s over,\u201d said Mrs. Ando after the restaurant closed on its last day, \u201cand also sad, but more than anything I feel grateful that so many more people than we expected came out to see us<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel a sense of calm now that it\u2019s over,\u201d said Mrs. Ando after the restaurant closed on its last day, \u201cand also sad, but more than anything I feel grateful that so many more people than we expected came out to see us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2014 \u9577\u826f\u5ddd\u9577\u67c4 (@Boxed_drop) May 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

122 years is an impressive run for any business, but it\u2019s still sad to see Nenoue Soba go, though noodle fans can at least take heart that there are still other platform tachigui soba restaurants left in Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: Chukyo TV<\/a> via Yahoo! Japan News<\/a>, Chunichi Shimbun<\/a><\/em>
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