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NHK
26-06-2025
- NHK
Tourists catch break from the heat with 'flowing noodles' (vertical video)
It's the ideal antidote to Japan's oppressive summer heat: At Kibune in northern Kyoto, visitors cool off with a riverside meal of nagashi-somen ― noodles that come flowing down a bamboo chute in chilled water.
NHK
22-06-2025
- NHK
Visitors to Japanese valley cool down with water-streamed noodles
People in Japan's western prefecture of Okayama have beaten the sweltering heat by a unique way -- savoring cold noodles which flow down chutes in water. A restaurant in the city of Maniwa offers the summer culinary tradition called "nagashi-somen." Customers use chopsticks to scoop up thin noodles from slides, dunk them into broth and slurp them up. The eatery, with a history of more than four decades, sits in the Yamanori Valley, a popular summer retreat. It began this year's business on Saturday. A 6-year-old girl who had the experience for the first time said it was fun and that she wants to try it again. Her mother said it was a good start to the summer as she loves the noodles.
