Ueda Yuba

Fed up with Kobe-steak? The Juba-restaurant Ueda Yuba on Kitaoji Dori in the northern part of Kyoto has specialized in serving only vegetarian food - including food produced from yuba, which is a tofu by-product (yuba is also known as tofu skin) . It is really impressing how much taste you can get out of something with so little flavour as tofu, but best of all – yuba is ridiciously healthy!

Ueda Yuba is located in an old traditional house with high ceilings and impressive constructions in wood. It is all in all a very atmospheric and local restaurant.

The recommendation has been selected by Lars Vejen who is Design Manager at Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen. Lars Vejen first time went to Kyoto as a young architect student and has visited the city several times since then and also taught at the Tottori University of Environmental Studies. He recommends visiting Kyoto in spring or autumn.