A note on the words: tsukesoba is another name for tsukemen, where thick noodles arrive dry and you dip them into a small bowl of concentrated broth; here that broth is tonkotsu gyokai, boiled from pork bones and dried fish until it is thick enough to cling. Tokusei, deluxe, means the bowl comes loaded with all the toppings: char siu, the braised pork; menma, fermented bamboo shoot; and a soy-marinated egg. Portion sizes are given in grams of noodles, and 300 grams is roughly double an ordinary bowl. Prices are as of this writing (August 2026).
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Tsukesoba Shu on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Hello, this is Hangover Meshi. I have been hooked on miso ramen lately, so I set off thinking I would go to Asahi Chonaikai, and when I got there — closed for the summer lol Bad luck! But I had thoroughly worked myself into the mood for noodles, so on the spur of the moment I went into a wonderfully characterful tsukesoba shop nearby lol The place has real character to it lol
Inside there is a counter shaped like the character no.
The system is that you buy a ticket and then take the seat you are directed to.
Tokusei tsukesoba, standard, 300 g: 1,210 yen
Tsukesoba, standard, 300 g: 890 yen
Three hundred grams for the standard lol That is a great deal. The large is 450 g and the Ultra 600 g lol That is two bowls. No chance I could eat it.
If they have an Ultra, I wish they would make an Ultra-small lol Even 200 g is a lot, but there we are. I chose the tokusei tsukesoba in small. Why go for the deluxe when I have just said I cannot eat much? Because I was having a beer and wanted something to go with it^^
Beer! Beer! Lately I seem to be drinking beer from lunchtime without a second thought lol
Order a beer and they give you the little dried fish and peanuts you can just see at the bottom right^^
This is what the glass is for! Good! Irresistible!
The vegetables come on a separate plate^^ Bean sprouts!
The deluxe comes with char siu, menma, a marinated egg and a wedge of lemon, which is a nice touch^^
I am glad I went deluxe! Perfect with a drink. I still had beer left, so I dropped the char siu into the dipping broth and ate it — good!!! It goes wonderfully with beer! A complete success in menu selection!
A rich, deeply savory, hearty pork bone and fish broth. The thick dipping broth has high viscosity, so it clings properly to the toppings and makes a superb drinking snack. Next, the noodles! And the noodles are wonderfully chewy. Medium-thick and straight, with real bite — dense, one might say — noodles with tremendous presence. They are in no way overwhelmed by that thick, heavy dipping broth!
The menma too — the toppings come in great chunks and eat well! Good!
Putting the vegetables in later is not quite a change of pace but does mellow things, and the lemon is excellent for a mid-bowl change. The acidity makes it easy to eat and cleans it up. I do not normally eat 200 g of noodles lol but between one thing and another I polished it off!
So — a tsukemen shop I walked into on the spur of the moment, and it was excellent! If you are drinking beer, going deluxe gives you a good snack^^ Next time it might be worth heading to Itabashi with this shop as the target! Glad to have found a good one.
Tsukesoba Shu (Tsukemen (Dipping noodles) / Itabashi-kuyakushomae Station, Shimo-Itabashi Station, Oyama Station)
Tabelog lunch rating ★★★☆☆ 3.5
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
