Tsuyama Restaurants

At Yokono Falls, there is an interesting restaurant called Somen Nagashi (Flowing Somen). At this restaurant, you sit on benches and at each table, there is a bamboo chute. Water runs down the bamboo, and when customers sit at a table, noodles come down the chute in the water. To eat, you simply put your chopsticks in the water and the noodles will quickly pile up onto them and you can then dip it in one of the sauces or eat it plain (The somen noodles taste like angel hair pasta). There is a bowl at the end to catch the noodles that make it to the end of the bamboo chute, so of course it's sanitary! This was an interesting and fun new way to dine!

Note: Because you eat outside and the water can freeze, this restaurant is only open from April to November.