Udon tour in Kagawa

Today I went to Kagawa Prefecture to eat "Udon".
Udon is a thick wheat-flour noodle, it's one of popular Japanese cuisines.
Udon is a local dishe of Kagawa, because Kagawa has been dry wheather, so people have been cultivating wheat, and Kagawa is faced on the sea, so it was not hard to get seaweed and fish. And now, there are a lot of small udon chains in Kagawa.

"Great sanuki udon" which is a tour guide book introducing udon shops, the first was published in 1983 and it sparked the Udon tour boom in Japan. And now it's still going on.

Every chain has its own taste, making it fun to try udon at different shops. Udon is usually served hot as noodle soup in a mildly flavoured broth, in its simplest form as kake udon, served in kakejiru made of dashi which is seaweed soup, soy sauce, and mirin.
It is usually topped with thinly chopped scallions and grated ginger.

Other common toppings include tempura, often prawn or kakiage, or abura age, a type of deep-fried tofu pockets seasoned with sugar, mirin, and soy sauce.
Shichimi or sesame can be added to taste.

Today's udon shop is a popular udonshop "Nagata udon", it was still crowded, when we visited there after 3pm. I ordered a small udon boll, it was 250yen. one of my friends ordered the special udon boll which was three times of mine, it was 600 Yen. it was so big.
I liked the soup which was not too strong and weak, good seaweed taste, and udon which was very smooth and felt elastic.

Next time, I would like to go to other udon shop. Any way, I really had fun for eating udon.