Sobe
10 minutes by car from Naha Airport, 7 minutes walk from Tsubogawa Station. A 90-seat Okinawa soba and seafood restaurant in a beautifully renovated Ryukyu red-tile folk house. Opened in 2009, locals call it the place they want to come home to. The soft cartilage soki soba is praised as one of the best pork-broth soba in the prefecture. Open through from lunch to dinner with 40 parking spaces, drawing lots of local families. Google Maps 4.4/2,000+ reviews, Yahoo Maps 4.36/160 reviews. Cash only.
Reviews describe 'the Okinawa soba that makes you say welcome home', 'the melt-in-your-mouth soft cartilage soki is amazing', 'lots of local families, proof it's the real deal not just for tourists', 'one of the rare places open through the day till evening'. Google Maps 4.4/2,000+ reviews, Yahoo Maps 4.36/160 reviews. Locals call it 'the taste of home'.