On Route 449 in Motobu, in northern Okinawa, there's a soba shop where your bowl holds a single noodle. Okinawa Choju Soba (おきなわ長寿そば) calls it the Choju Ippon-men Soba (長寿一本麺そば), and it costs ¥1,500.
The noodle is fresh and has to be boiled, so allow about 10 minutes between ordering and serving.
The shop is open 11:00 to 16:00, with last order at 15:30, and is closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Driving from Nago on Route 449, you pass it before you reach Churaumi Aquarium, which makes it an easy lunch stop on the way in.
The shop opens on some Monday and Tuesday public holidays and occasionally takes an extra day off. It announces both on Instagram.
For aquarium tickets and the drive or bus from Naha, see Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium: Tickets, Discounts, and Getting There from Naha.
The One-Noodle Bowl: Toppings, Noodle and Broth
The shop describes it as the first Okinawa soba served as a single noodle. It comes topped with three kinds of pork: sanmainiku (pork belly), soki (spare rib) and tebichi (pig's feet).
The shop doesn't publish a length for the noodle. In an August 2024 article, around the time the dish first appeared, the local paper Ryukyu Shimpo (琉球新報) reported the noodle as 4 meters (about 13 feet) long. Back then it was called the Choju Soba Gozen (長寿そば御膳).
The broth starts with Okinawan pork, Yanbaru chicken and vegetables, according to an August 2026 post from the shop. Each morning, that day's batch is finished with bonito stock.
The shop says it tries not to keep people waiting for its other bowls, so order one of those if you're short on time.
Other Bowls and Prices
These prices come from the menu the shop posted on Instagram in September 2026.
Okinawa soba with pork belly, hon-soki soba (本ソーキそば) with bone-in rib, and yushi-dofu soba (ゆし豆腐そば) with soft tofu are each ¥900 for a medium or ¥1,000 for a large. The tofu comes from a local maker in Motobu.
Get any of those three as a set with juushii (じゅーしー), rice cooked in the soba broth, and it's ¥1,100 (medium) or ¥1,200 (large). On its own, juushii is ¥200. The zenbu-nose soba (全部のせそば, "everything on top"), with pork belly, rib and tofu, is also ¥1,100 or ¥1,200.
Beyond Okinawa soba, there's mazesoba with house-made chili oil (¥1,000) and beef-and-bean-sprout soba in limited quantities (¥1,000). Curry (¥800) and taco rice (¥1,000) come with soup, and for an extra ¥200 you can swap the soup for a mini soba.
Holiday Openings and Extra Closures
Mondays and Tuesdays are the regular days off, but the shop opens on some public holidays. In November 2026, it's open on Monday the 23rd (Labor Thanksgiving Day) and closed on Saturday the 28th.
November's schedule went up on Instagram on October 31 as a calendar image in Japanese. On it, 定休日 marks a regular day off, 臨時休業 an extra closure, and 営業します a day it's open.
As of November 13, 2026, the shop hadn't posted its December or New Year closures. Whatever day you're going, check the latest posts on Okinawa Choju Soba's Instagram before you set off.
Location, Parking and Buses
You'll find it on Route 449 in the Sakimotobu (崎本部) area of Motobu, right next to the Shiokawa (塩川) bus stop. There are 10 parking spaces behind the building. According to the shop, Churaumi Aquarium is about 15 minutes away by car.
Inside, there's tatami seating, and the sea is right out back. According to the shop, sea turtles sometimes turn up in the water out back.
The Yanbaru Express Bus (やんばる急行バス), which links Naha Airport with Churaumi Aquarium, doesn't stop at Shiokawa.
Route-planning sites list Shiokawa as a stop on local bus routes 65 and 66 (the Motobu Peninsula Line, 本部半島線) from Nago Bus Terminal. But Okinawa Bus's official timetable doesn't list Shiokawa times, so a car makes the day easier to plan.
Soba and Churaumi in One Day: Which Comes First
Churaumi Aquarium is open 8:30 to 18:30, with last entry at 17:30. It has no closures planned through March 31, 2027, barring typhoons.
So you can do both on any day the soba shop is open. For the rest of November 2026, that's Wednesday through Sunday plus Monday the 23rd, but not Saturday the 28th.
Soba first: drive up from Naha, reach the shop soon after it opens at 11:00, then spend the afternoon at the aquarium.
Aquarium first: go in the morning and stop for soba on your way back south. Last order is 15:30 and the shop is about 15 minutes away, so leave the aquarium by around 15:00.
Stay the night in Motobu and you can be at the aquarium when it opens at 8:30.
Check hotel availability and rates in Motobu
Adult admission to the aquarium is ¥2,180, and you can also buy tickets online in advance.
Book Churaumi Aquarium admission tickets
Okinawa Choju Soba at a Glance
Item | Details |
|---|---|
Name | Okinawa Choju Soba (おきなわ長寿そば) |
Address | 2795-1 Sakimotobu, Motobu-cho, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa 905-0225 |
Hours | 11:00–16:00 (last order 15:30) |
Days closed | Mondays and Tuesdays (open on some holidays; occasional extra closures) |
Landmark | On Route 449, next to the Shiokawa bus stop |
Parking | 10 spaces behind the shop |
Signature dish | Choju Ippon-men Soba, ¥1,500 (September 2026 menu) |
The Motobu Town Tourism Association also lists the shop on its Okinawa Choju Soba page (Japanese).
This article was translated from the original Japanese with AI assistance and reviewed by our editorial team. The Japanese version is authoritative.