Izushi 出石
A portion of soba here is five small plates: anyone who eats fifteen passes for an expert.
Castle town (jōka-machi) in the north of the prefecture, called ‘the little Kyoto of Tajima’: the lowland castle was built in 1604 at the foot of Mount Aiko by the daimyō Koide Yoshihide, who also brought soba craftsmen there from Shinshū (now Nagano), giving rise to the izushi-soba tradition. Above the castle ruins, 157 steps passing under 37 torii lead to the Inari shrine on the hill; higher up, on the same mountain, are the remains of the medieval castle of the Yamana clan (山名氏城跡), a national historic site since 1996: a separate place from the Edo-period castle town you see today.
Hyogo
出石, 沢庵寺口, 小人町
