Izumo Cultural Heritage Museum and Izumo Soba

The Izumo Cultural Heritage Museum is centered on an 1896 farmhouse of the Ezumi family, reassembled at its current location with its original black pine beam structure and zelkova center pillar intact. On the grounds sits the Dokurakuan teahouse, built for the tea master lord Matsudaira Harusato, with three tea rooms including one of the smallest possible at one-and-three-quarter tatami mats. The museum's soba restaurant serves Izumo-style buckwheat noodles in two traditional formats: warigo, served cold in stacked lacquerware dishes, and kamaage, served straight from the pot in its cooking water.