土曜日は路麺の日
小田急町田駅に来ました。町田市って結構大きいんですよ。神奈川県との県（都？）境にある大都市です。
Good day.
I am pleased, if you recall the campaign "Saturdays are Romen Days." I got off at ODAKYU Machida Station. Machida city, Tokyo is the big city, has more than 450,000 citizens, and is located in the border of Kanagawa. Machida is one of the bed towns for people who work in Tokyo, it takes about 30 minutes to Shinjuku Station.
さ、目的地の路麺、八起そばの場所をGoogleマップで調べます。
ファッ！？ここから35km！？💦
町田じゃなくて町屋だった。。。久々にやらかしました
I think that one of the important measurements for a good area is if there are many young people. There were a lot of young people there.
I checked the location of today's destination Yaoki Soba on Google Map. What? 35 km from here? I made significant mistake, I was supposed to get to Machiya Station, not Machida Station. Oh my...
とりあえず小田急に飛び乗ります。
I googled Romens in this close area and I took an ODAKYU train again.
もう今から町屋には戻ることは出来ません。小田急相模原駅まで来ました。
I gave up to go back Machiya Station. I got off at ODAKYU Sagamihara Station.
さあ、ろかタワー散歩♪です。暑っつ～💦
Let me start Roka Tower Sampo. It was really hot yesterday, wasn't it? I used my handy-fan and drank a water during my sampo.
七夕ですね。汚れた大人の僕には絶対に書けない小学生の純粋な願いに癒されました～
July 7 is Tanabata Day, isn't it? There were a lot of wish papers written by elementary school students on the bamboo grasses. Children wishes were really pure but I can't wish these kind of wishes because I know reality.
さあ、到着しました！立食いそば田上です。いわゆるロードサイド路麺ですね。
I arrived Tachigui Soba Tagami.
You can see the very old architecture, you can imagine its long history. This is a typical roadside Romen with parking lot. There were many old, almost decayed buildings and houses in this area. It shows that this are is not residential area for wealthy.
開けっ放しのドア、いやな予感がします💦暑そう。。。
ここだけでも英語で書いてあることを読んで欲しいです。
The entrance door was always opened. This concerned me about the temperature inside. You can see a girl inside. She was waiting her father to finish eating soba noodles. After he finished to eat, he passed the bowl to her and the girl brought it to the counter. I was really worried if she is on child abuse. Her father's looking was strange and kind of typical old type worker. I wish she will be grown up as well as usual children, and will get opportunities of enough education.
やっぱり暑い💦
It was hot inside, actually, but there was a box of tissue paper. It helped me. The atmosphere was like a traditional stand-up soba noodle restaurant.
天ぷらそばを注文しました。暑いけど！
I ordered tempura soba noodles. It was 500 yen. There was the vending machine inside but already broken up.
あ、美味しい！お蕎麦は普通の茹で麺、お汁は甘辛くて美味しいです。で、この自家製かき揚げが秀逸でした！ごぼうと玉ねぎと小海老のかき揚げでいい感じです。
It was very good. The noodle was not special, was pre-boiled one of a noodle factory. The soup was good with sweet and strong. The kakiage tempura was amazing. It was cooked by themselves, contains burdocks, onions and small shrimps. I understood why this Romen gets high rate on Tabelog and Google Map.
さあ、ろかタワー散歩♪再開です。
I started Roka Tower Sampo again, toward ODAKYU Sobudaimae Station.
暑すぎる💦
業務スーパーでクールダウンです❄
I decided to enter Gyomu Super (Supermarket for Professionals) TAKENOKO to cool my body down. It was really tough to walk outside for long time, yesterday.
稚鮎が売ってます！ルアーそっくり！
There were young sweetfish. It looks a lure, doesn't it? I am sure that if you like bass fishing, you would think so too.
相武台前駅にやっと到着しました💦暑い💦
After some rest at TAKENOKO, I re-started Roka Tower Sampo and got to ODAKYU Sobudaimae Station and went back to my town.
良い週末を～
Thank you for reading. Have a nice weekend!