Juwari Soba Tempura Soumaan, 6 minutes from Kawasaki Station: house-made soba and its signature ten-seiro

Homemade soba and tempura in Nakasaiwaicho

A soba and tempura restaurant in Nakasaiwaicho, Saiwai Ward. It held its grand opening on May 8, 2023.

The soba is made in-house from Japanese buckwheat flour, with the blend adjusted to the humidity and weather. The dipping sauce combines broth with kaeshi, a base of premium mirin, Japanese coarse sugar and Japanese soy sauce left to rest slowly. Tempura is fried light in the restaurant's own blend of rice bran oil and salad oil.

At lunch you can have soba or a rice bowl. In the evening you can also drink, with side dishes, sake and shochu. Soba-shop drinks include shochu mixed with soba tea or soba cooking water, and soba shochu.

The shrimp tempura egg bowl from the Oshimeshi campaign

In 2023, the restaurant entered its "egg-topped shrimp tempura rice bowl" (¥979 at the time) in "#Kawasaki Oshi-Meshi," a Kawasaki City campaign for local restaurants. The bowl came from the owner's words: "Let's make great rice bowls, not just soba!" A large shrimp tempura is covered with fluffy red-shelled eggs, and the shrimp size, eggs and sauce went through many test versions.

Source: #Kawasaki Oshi-Meshi 2023 entry No. 40 (Kawasaki AKINAI AWARD)

On the current menu, "ten-seiro" and "tororo soba" are marked as house specialties. Ten-seiro is house-made soba served with shrimp tempura and an assortment of seasonal tempura, and it was featured in the restaurant's notice of Sep 10, 2026. Tororo soba uses Yamato yam from Chiba Prefecture.

Any soba can be swapped for udon

All prices include tax.

Dish	Price
Seiro soba (cold)	¥825
Juwari soba kake (hot)	¥825
Tanuki soba	¥880
Tsuke-tororo (dipping yam)	¥979
Tororo soba (house specialty)	¥1,089
Ten-seiro (house specialty)	¥1,628
Seared duck nanban	¥1,628
Ten-toji don (shrimp tempura with egg)	¥1,408
Tempura assortment	¥1,419
Soba-shop karaage (1 piece)	¥209

Any soba can be swapped for udon. In the evening (from 5 p.m.), "kakomi soba" (about two servings, ¥1,408) comes with your choice of dipping sauce: soba, duck, sesame or curry. Desserts are brown sugar syrup vanilla kinako ice cream and wasanbon sugar pudding (¥583 each).

6 minutes' walk from JR Kawasaki Station, open daily

It is a 6-minute walk from JR Kawasaki Station. There is no regular closing day. On weekdays the restaurant closes between 14:30 and 17:00; on weekends and holidays it stays open from midday to evening.

Reservations are taken by phone (050-5447-8020) or online through the official website. Phone lines are busy from about 17:00 to 21:30, so online booking is easier at that time.