Yudetaro is a chain restaurant and specializes in soba そば (buckwheat noodles). It is one of the Japanese traditional noodles.
Kake Soba Noodles かけそば
Hot Soba 360 yen (including tax)
かけ Kake
It is hot noodles with soup in a bowl.
Mori Soba Noodles もりそば
Chilled Soba
Single 360 yen (as pictured below)
Double 530 yen
Triple 680 yen
もり Mori
It is chilled noodles. You dip soba into thick feeling sauce.
Yudetaro's website says that their soba soup and dipping sauce are made from consciously selected ingredients such as soy sauce, Dashi and Mirin.
I agree! It tastes very good!
そば湯 Soba hot water
There are some kettles on the tables at the restaurant.
It is hot water in which the soba noodles has been boiled called "sobayu そば湯". It tastes good and has many nutrients from the buckwheat.
Reasonable Today's Set 620 Yen
They also offer a 620 yen soba (hot or chilled) set meal as a today's special.
日替わり得セット 620円 Higawari Toku Set 620 yen
There are 3 kinds of 620 yen set meals, but only one kind is available from 11:00 am until closing time each day.
- Soba and Mini Pork Cutlet Curry Rice
ミニカツカレーセット Mini Katsu Curry Set
on Monday and Thursday - Soba and Mini Prawn and Maitake Mashroom Tempura Bowl
ミニ海老舞茸天丼セット Mini Ebi Maitake-tendon Set
on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday - Soba, Meat and Eggplant Bowl Set
ミニ肉茄子丼セット Mini Niku Nasu-don Set
on Wednesday and Saturday
Take a look at the other menu below. (in Japanese)
Are you interested in Japanese curry rice? Check it out.
This YouTuber had the set meal with a raw egg, but the raw egg is an option for 50 → 70 yen (or if you have a free coupon).
Would you like to eat low priced pork cutlet?
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Information
Restaurant name
YUDETARO ゆで太郎
(Yudetaro System ゆで太郎システム)
Website (in Japanese)
- No cover charge / No service fee
- 10% tax is included in the price.
- No smoking
- Picture menu is available on the ticketing machine.
- Self-service
- Credit card is not accepted. Cash only
How to Enjoy
- Buy a meal ticket at the entrance.
Yudetaro restaurants use the meal ticket and self-service system. English menu is not available on the ticket machine. Many foods are displayed with pictures on the ticket machine.
- Hand the ticket to the chef at the kitchen.
- When your food is prepared, the chef calls your ticket number in Japanese. You can wait for the food at your table, but if you are not good at listening to Japanese, it would be better for you to wait for your food in front of the kitchen.
- Usually you wait for about 5 or 6 minutes for your food to be cooked. After you get your food, go to a seasonings section.
Chopsticks, spoon and seasonings are self-service. These are prepared in front of the kitchen. Cold water is self-service, too.
- Sesame powder
- Chili oil
- Black pepper
- Chopped chili pepper
- Pickles
- Pickled ginger
- Salt
- Soy sauce
- Wasabi
- Sauce
- Tempura crust
- When you finish your meal, please return your tray to the return shelves.
テーブル拭き Disposable wiping cloth
Please clean up your table yourself after finishing your meal, because this is a self-service restaurant.
顔や手などに使用しないでください means...
Do not use it for hand and face.
唐辛子・七味 Chili pepper, Mixed chili pepper
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Most restaurants open at 7:00 am, every day.
Ikebukuro 池袋
* There are 2 restaurants on the east and west side of the station.
Discontinued
They offered 4 kinds of 500 yen set meals in 2019, but now they are discontinued.
ミニ明太高菜ごはんセット Mini Menta Takana Gohan Set
It includes soba noodles (hot or chilled), cod roe and Takana pickles on a mini cup of rice, and croquette.
In 2021, this set meal is changed to a similar set
ミニ焼鯖明太高菜ごはんセット Mini MYakisaba Menta Takana Gohan Set
I put some pickles on the rice and got 2 packs of wasabi わさび.
I usually put a lot of wasabi in the dipping sauce.
Cod roe and Takana pickles on rice
Takana is really popular Japanese pickles. It is also used rolled sushi below.
This cod roe is domestically produced in Kojohama 虎杖浜 Hokkaido 北海道, Japan.
Information of fish egg food
I put sauce on croquette.
This YouTuber had the set meal with a raw egg, but the egg is an option for 50 yen (or if you have a free coupon).
This YouTuber had the set meal with a croquette, but the croquette is an option for 80 yen (or if you have a free coupon).
Prices and information are as of September 2021. Photos were taken in 2015 - 2019.
A tempura restaurant TENYA offer soba as well.
There are a lot of inexpensive foods in Japan for less than 599 yen including tax.
Making sounds like "Zu zu zu ..." when slurping noodles is the customary way that Japanese eat noodles. It is not bad manners in Japan.
One of the reasons is that when you mix a lot of soup with a lot of air in your mouth you can taste more of their flavors. However, it would be better to keep the sound to a minimum.