Nagao Noodle Factory

They use a 100 year-old former town hall as a factory. Noodle making is Ukiha’s industry for 400 years, and Mr. Nagao is still adding his personal touches and improvements to the creation.

He serves noodle on Sundays, and actually his small restaurant was listed in a Michellin points recently.

He designed the restaurant. He also designs the packages of his product. Mr. Nagao loves culture and art, and fevently supports residency programs.

They use old half-manually operated machines. His business is doing very well but he prefers to keep the old building and sticking to the traditional methods. The factory hires generations of neighborhood residents, each of whom is skilled in specific processes of noodle making.

Mr. Nagao’s mother. His parents are keeping the shop and living in the same grounds. She enjoys entertaining customers.

He has passion in design and photography. He coorperated a lot in the residency of photographers.