Kurumi-jiru Soba
¥1,350
Cold soba with a walnut dipping sauce.
Welcome to Soba Kokyu
Enjoy fragrant soba and a soba kaiseki meal in a relaxing setting.
Beyond our earthen walls, the main dining room welcomes you with cypress pillars, natural stone floors and views of the courtyard garden. We also have a tea room and three separate dining rooms for meals with family, friends or guests.
Our soba
We take care of every step, from selecting buckwheat to milling the flour and making the soba in-house. Our buckwheat is organically grown Hitachi Aki Soba from contracted growers in Chikusei, Ibaraki.
Our dipping sauce combines dashi made from carefully aged, dried bonito, Rishiri kombu and Japanese donko shiitake mushrooms. For hot soba, we use a different dashi blend, including bonito, soda-katsuo and mackerel flakes. Each is prepared to complement the aroma and flavour of the soba.
We make two types of soba each day. Discover the flavour of freshly milled buckwheat and the savoury depth of our dashi.
Dining rooms & tea room
Our tea room can be used for formal tea gatherings. Its traditional design offers a quiet setting in which to enjoy Japanese hospitality.
A traditional tea room is a place to welcome guests and serve tea. Features may include a tokonoma display alcove, a hearth, and separate entrances for guests and the host.
Menu prices
Prices are in Japanese yen and include 10% consumption tax. A 10% service charge applies to lunch and dinner. Availability of seasonal dishes may vary.
Cold soba
Soba served cold, with a dipping sauce.
Gobou & Maitake Ten Soba
¥1,850
Cold soba with burdock and maitake mushroom tempura.
Ebi Ten Soba
¥2,250
Cold soba with shrimp tempura.
Cold soba with a warm dipping sauce
Dip the cold soba into the warm sauce as you eat.
Kamo-jiru Soba
¥1,900
Cold soba with a warm duck dipping sauce.
Kinoko-jiru Soba
¥1,600
Cold soba with a warm mushroom dipping sauce.
Kaki-jiru Soba
¥1,750
Cold soba with a warm oyster dipping sauce.
Hot soba
Soba served in hot dashi broth. Add green onion or chilli powder to taste.
Kake Soba
¥1,100
Soba served in hot dashi broth.
Kamo Tsukune Soba
¥2,000
Hot soba with duck meatballs.
Kamo Nanban Soba
¥2,200
Hot soba with duck and green onion.
Gobou & Maitake Ten Soba
¥1,850
Hot soba with burdock and maitake mushroom tempura.
Ebi Ten Soba
¥2,250
Hot soba with shrimp tempura.
Side dishes
Enjoy these dishes alongside your soba or sake.
Yakimiso
¥400
Grilled miso.
Soba Tofu
¥600
Buckwheat tofu.
Sashimi Yuba
¥800
Delicate sheets of tofu skin, served sashimi-style.
Sobagaki — small
¥1,100
Soft buckwheat dumpling made by vigorously stirring buckwheat flour with hot water. Served with a warm dipping sauce.
Kamo Roast
¥1,100
Roasted duck breast.
Gobou & Maitake Ten
¥850
Burdock and maitake mushroom tempura served together.
Ebi Ten
¥1,250
Shrimp tempura.
Kamo Touban-yaki
¥2,600
Duck and vegetables cooked on a ceramic plate. Serves two.
Soba kaiseki courses
A multi-course meal featuring soba, seasonal dishes and traditional Japanese cooking.
Soba Kaiseki — ¥4,000
- Soba tofu
- Roasted duck salad
- Seasonal tempura
- Mori soba — cold soba with dipping sauce
- Hot soba (cold kake soba from June to September)
Soba Kaiseki — ¥6,700
- Soba tofu
- Sobagaki
- Seasonal tempura
- Duck cooked on a ceramic plate
- 100% buckwheat mori soba
- Hot soba (cold kake soba from June to September)
- Dessert
Please see our Japanese kaiseki menu for reservations and further details.
Sweets
A sweet finish to your meal.
Soba Blancmange
¥500
A smooth buckwheat dessert.
Warabimochi
¥700
Soft, jelly-like Japanese sweets. Available outside June–September.
Mizu Yokan
¥400
A chilled sweet bean jelly. Available June–September only.
Beer & Japanese sake
We offer more than ten carefully selected sakes, with a focus on junmai. Sake prices below are for 180 ml. Your first sake order comes with complimentary grilled miso.
Yebisu Beer — 500 ml bottle
¥750
Your first beer order comes with a complimentary serving of crispy fried soba.
Hanaabi — 180 ml
¥1,150
Japanese sake.
Shichihonyari — 180 ml
¥1,050
Japanese sake.
Opening hours & reservations
Tuesday–Saturday
Lunch: 11:30–14:30 (last orders 14:00)
Dinner: 18:00–21:00 (last orders 20:30)
Reservations are required for weekday evenings.
Sunday
11:30–15:30 (last orders 15:00)
Closed: Mondays and the first, third and fifth Tuesday of each month. Please check the Japanese information page for current notices.
For reservations, please call 048-762-3167.
We accept credit cards, electronic money and QR-code payments.
We regret that we cannot accommodate children below elementary-school age.
Getting here
1-11-12 Kamikizaki, Urawa-ku, Saitama 330-0071, Japan
Three minutes on foot from the west exit of Yono Station on the JR Keihin-Tohoku Line. By car, approximately two minutes from the Shintoshin exit of the Shuto Expressway Saitama Shintoshin Line.
Seven free parking spaces are available for our guests.