11.   The Japanese make soup with soba noodles or with udon noodles.

12.   The local friendliness and courtesy have been as available and hearty as the soba noodles for which this region is famous.

13.   Time to leave the land of soba noodles, basted baby bees and Zenkoji Temple, where some American visitors did not find the key to enlightenment.

14.   You can get anything from soba noodles made before your eyes to beautiful waiters dressed in drag.

15.   At the moment Cesar serves interesting dishes such as lamb chops with minced pesto and soba noodles and baked lemon grass chicken with ginger sweetcorn puree and Chinese cabbage.