Among the things I really like in Tokyo: crammed among modern tall buildings are often small restaurants like this here Tengame (天亀) in Kanda that usually serve soba noodles.
These restaurants are "tachigui" (立ち食い), that is, they don't have seats: you eat standing and leave as soon as you finish.
The staff is usually one or two people...
...and the soba are usually very good! In Edo, Tokyo's ancestor, soba used to be sold by street vendors carrying their whole restaurant on a pole so tachigui soba is almost as close as you can get to actual Edo food today.
(For a bigger version of these pictures both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).
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