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Mimiko is a Kyoto-style curry noodle restaurant. Kyoto-style means that the noodle does not have strong texture like Sanuki noodle but is soft and slippery. The curry soup has less oil. The curry noodle that is usually served at other store has some oil floated and that oil makes up for the tastiness and body. However, from the Mimiko’s soup, the flavor of soup stock can be tasted. Instead of the impact of body, the mellow spice makes the noodle special.
The picture is lunch set meal. It comes with rice and chikuwa tenpura.

There are many ways to eat the half cooked egg. You can mix it to the soup after you eat most of the noodle, or eat it by itself, or even put it over the rice along with the soup. Have it your way.

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Riding on a train for about an hour and a half from the center of Tokyo. The Mitake Gorge is located in Chichibu Tama Kai National Park and is especially known for its limpid stream and as a place for Koyo-gari (colored leaves hunting: metaphorical usage for enjoying colored leaves). What I’m going to introduce today is the route from JR Mitake Station to Kawai Station, climbing Mount Mitake and walking along the Tama River on the way.

You could also ride on a bus or a ropeway in order to save time, but spending the whole day to walk the route of approximately 10km while enjoying the colored leaves and other scenery on the way is also recommended.

I arrived at Mitake Station after an hour ride from Hachioji. It was a weekday, but a number of people were crammed in the train. The region between Oume and Okutama attracts a lot of visitors during the season of colored leaves.

Mount Mitake seen from the station gate.

Cross a bridge and climb down to the gorge.

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