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It's called soba. Sakura Yagi: It's interesting that people think that ramen is the quintessential Japanese noodle, but soba has more of a history. Fumi Abe: Not that long ago, you know ...

Easy to make, these noodles taste delicious when stir-fried with teriyaki sauce. Throw in some veggies like mushrooms and carrots, caramalised pork strips (if you like) or just dunk them in dashi.

Called toshikoshi soba (crossing-into-the-New Year soba), the dish is deceptively ... yet rustic and earthy buckwheat noodles. “Japanese people know how hard it is to make soba,” he says.

In the Hoya district of Tsuruoka City, white buckwheat flowers sway in the wind. The plants will be harvested and made into the area's famous soba noodles next month.