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- Season 12 Stable Fishing Jobs Steer a Community
- Season 12 A Float Artisan & His Muse
- Season 12 Magical Forest: Okinawa's Natural World Heritage Site
- Season 12 Soccer Team Raises Community Spirit
- Season 12 Seeking a Chance to Learn: Students with Overseas Roots
- Season 12 Small Factory Reaches for the Stars
- Season 12 Flying Like an Arrow
- Season 12 Modern Methods Sustain Metalwork Tradition
- Season 12 A World Heritage Town: Past and Future
- Season 12 Hard Rain: A Village Divided
- Season 12 Bonding Through Soba: A Story of Four Grannies
- Season 12 Amashi: Japan's Freediving Fishers
- Season 12 Our New Classmate from Ukraine
- Season 12 Waiting for the God's Crossing
- Season 12 Mailing Letters to the Lost
- Season 12 Kintsugi: Mending Memories with Gold
- Season 12 A Cut Above the Rest
- Season 12 The Final Journey
- Season 12 Life on a Sloping Farm
- Season 12 A House-call Doctor in Fukushima
- Season 12 A Song for a New Fukushima School
- Season 12 Reviving a Fukushima Brewery
- Season 12 Japanese Paper Supports War-torn Ukraine
- Season 12 Egg Wars – Father vs. Son
- Season 12 Countryside Diaries
- Season 12 A Heart-Warming Tokyo Veggie Stand
- Season 12 Sparking a Chain of Kindness
- Season 12 Grandma's Hands Reap Nature's Bounty
- Season 12 Inheriting a Thousand-Year-Old Craft
Hometown Stories - Season 12 Episode 11 Bonding Through Soba: A Story of Four Grannies
0.00 30 minutes In a small community at the foot of the famous Mt. Gassan in the northern prefecture of Yamagata, four women in their 80s work together in a popular soba-noodle restaurant. Many people come a long way to enjoy the grannies' soba. Each has her own role - making dough, cutting it into strips, frying tempura, and making side dishes using seasonal vegetables. They enjoy working, chatting, and laughing together, and they have developed a special bond. We follow the women, from the beautiful season of buckwheat flowers blooming to the deep snows of winter.
