page_title: Ariko Inaoka
section_title: Restaurant ownership
hierarchical_section_title: Ariko Inaoka / Restaurant ownership
caption_attribution_description: Honke Owariya, entrance to oldest soba noodle shop in Kyoto Honke Owariya, the oldest soba noodle shop in Kyoto, Japan
context_page_description: Ariko Inaoka is a Japanese photographer, best known for her long-term project of photographing a pair of Icelandic twins. She is also the owner of Honke Owariya, a long-established soba restaurant in Kyoto.
context_section_description: Inaoka returned to Kyoto in 2011. She is the current and sixteenth owner of Honke Owariya, founded in 1465 and the oldest soba restaurant in Kyoto and perhaps the whole of Japan. She follows this tradition from her father, the fifteenth owner, and her grandfather, the fourteenth.
caption: Entrance to the soba shop Honke Owariya
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