Musashino Abura Gakkai Waseda Head Shop — Restaurant in Tokyo

"Gakkai" has built a name for itself as a trendy late-night student hangout. With stupidly cramped individual counter seats and nightmarish squatting tables for groups, this place is not for for the faint of heart.

That is until you try their abura soba, something I believe is absolutely incredible, and I believe it is all due to their noodles. The sum of the sauces and nice chunky noodles give each bite a nice, juicy heft to it.

When you order something they will usually ask you two things: which size (if your order has a normal/large size option) you'd like and whether or not you want ginger in your soba (again if your order has that option). In Japanese that would be "nahmee mohrii" for normal and "ohmorii" for large, that an "ninjin wo tsukemasuka," which you would answer with "hai" or "iie."

I don't really like the meet that comes with the noodles, but noodles themselves more than makes up for this...

Abura Gakkai is, hands down, the best “abura soba” in Tokyo. “Abura soba” is a new type of noodle dish, where the soup normally existent in ramen is substituted by an oil based sauce. But don’t worry, it is less greasy than the idea suggest and the oil element is necessary for the noodles to be more easily eaten (some say it has less calories than a normal ramen). This shop has a recommended way to eat the soba (it is written in some signs on the store). First, you should put a round of “rayu”, a Japanese chili oil, and a round of vinegar. Then, you should mix it very nicely and eat it while still hot. This is a treat. HOWEVER, please notice that the store is very small - three tables for 4 and 5 crammed counter seats. Don’t come in groups over 4. Also, interestingly, the same music (Lupin III theme song) will be playing on loop......

Best abura soba ever! We stumbled upon this place one night and we fell in love with it!

We've been here three times in total during our stay in Tokyo and every time I tried a different dish, all of which turned out to be amazingly good!

Not only the dishes are really good, they're also cheap raging from 600 to 1000 yen and quite big! Every time we walked out of the place we felt happy and our bellies were filled !

The place is also very characteristic due to the fact the is very small and with ground level tables where you have to remove your shoes and sit on the tatami. As I said the place is very small hence busy most of the time especially during the day due to the vicinity to the...