Myoko

Published: Aug 11, 2026

Updated: Aug 11, 2026

tsuyu yakisobaKuroishilocal foodsince 1968noodle soup

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Kuroishi's local dish is a solution to a specific problem: what to do with yakisoba in a town where the snow reaches the eaves. The answer, arrived at in a shop near a junior high school in the late 1950s, was to put it in hot soup. Tsuyu yakisoba is fried noodles with sauce, then submerged in ramen broth — which sounds like a mistake and is instead a genuinely coherent dish, because the sauce dissolves into the broth and gives it a sweet-savoury depth that ramen broth alone does not have.

Myoko, open since 1968, is generally named as the shop that started it. The noodles are steamed with the vegetables and pork to give them a soft chew before the soup goes on, and the bowl comes with a small side dish and pickles. It costs ¥800 and is five minutes from the covered arcade street that is the other reason to come to Kuroishi.

Essential Information

Opening Hours

Varies — confirm before travelling

Closed: Confirm before travelling

Entrance Fee

Original tsuyu yakisoba ¥800, with a small side dish and pickles

Best Season

Year-round | Winter, which is what the dish is for

Visit Duration

45–60 minutes

Getting There

Access Information

2-3 Omachi, Kuroishi. Walking distance from the Nakamachi Komise preservation district and about 15 minutes on foot from Kuronan-Kuroishi Station on the Konan Railway. The original tsuyu yakisoba is ¥800, served with a small side dish and pickles. Confirm hours and rest days before travelling.

Insider Guide

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**Order the ganso version.** The original tsuyu yakisoba at ¥800 is the reference dish. Later variations exist around the town but this is the one the others are copying. **Expect soup, and expect it to work.** Fried sauce-coated noodles in ramen broth reads as a category error until you eat it. The sauce dissolving into the broth is what the dish is for. **Do it with the komise street.** The covered snow arcades are five minutes away and lunch here is the natural middle of that walk. **Several shops make it.** A local association promotes tsuyu yakisoba across Kuroishi and versions differ noticeably between shops. If Myoko is closed, the dish is still available in town. **Confirm before travelling.** Opening hours and rest days for this shop are not consistently published; a phone call saves the trip.

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