Goemonjaya

Description:

• Convenient if you're visiting Nanzenji, this typical Japanese restaurant specializes in tofu dishes and tempura. With tatami seating, a miniature garden, a waterfall, and a carp-filled pond, it offers a tofu (yudofu) set meal, a shrimp or vegetarian tempura teishoku, and, in summer only, inexpensive noodle dishes ranging in price from ¥650 ($5.40/£2.70) for somen (thin vermicelli served cold) to ¥800 ($6.65/£3.35) for cold buckwheat noodles (zaru soba). You might also wish to try its desserts, including mitarashi dango (soy-flavored rice dumplings on a stick) and zensai-mochi (rice cake with black beans).

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