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Soba is a thin Japanese noodle made from buckwheat. The noodles are served either chilled with a dipping sauce, or hot in a noodle soup. The variety Nagano soba includes wheat flour.

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Okinawa soba (沖縄そば) is a type of noodle produced in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Okinawa soba is a regional collective trademark of The Okinawa Noodle Manufacturing Co-op. On Okinawa, it is sometimes simply called soba, although this Japanese term typically refers to buckwheat noodles in mainland Japan.

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Otaru Ankake Yakisoba is a variety of "Ankake Yakisoba" sold at many restaurants in Otaru, Hokkaido. The dish became prevalent within Otaru from the third decade of the Showa Period (1955–1964) and by the Heisei Period (1989–) was beloved by the people of Otaru. From the 2010s, in order to promote Otaru and combat the city's population decrease, a citizen's group made efforts to popularize the dish and it became known as a local delicacy.

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Sara udon (皿うどん), literally "plate noodles" is a dish native to Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.

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Tenkasu are crunchy bits of deep fried flour-batter used in Japanese cuisine, specifically in dishes such as soba, udon, takoyaki and okonomiyaki. Hot plain soba and udon with added tenkasu are called tanuki-soba and tanuki-udon.

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Three Great Noodles of Morioka is a term to describe the noodle dishes morioka reimen, morioka Jajamen, and wanko soba of the city of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.Morioka Reimen is a cold noodle dish based on Korean naengmyeon. Morioka Jajamen is a dish with meat miso on thin udon noodles, based on Chinese zhajiangmian. Wanko soba is a style of Japanese soba, served in many small bite-sized bowls.

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Toshikoshi soba (年越し蕎麦) is a traditional Japanese noodle bowl dish eaten on ōmisoka.

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Wanko Soba (わんこそば) is a style of Japanese soba noodles originating from Iwate Prefecture in Japan, particularly Morioka and Hanamaki. It consists of a small serving of soba noodles in small bowls. In this soba experience, you quickly eat your soba noodles and get your bowl immediately refilled in repetition.