Soba are brown noodles made from buckwheat flour. You can enjoy these noodles at railway stations. At some platforms, there are small restaurants called Tachigui-Soba, which literally means "standing-up-eating soba". Almost all of these soba restaurants have ticket vending machines. After you buy your ticket, please hand it to a servant. Your soba noodles are then served within one minute. If you are in a hurry, and want to eat something on a railway station platform, Tachigui-soba is very useful.