Catching your meal with chopsticks – a playful tradition.

Nagashi somen near Takachiho Gorge, a noodle meal that is simultaneously a tasty treat and playful ritual—delicate noodle strands flow and glide down a flowing bamboo flume along a moving stream of cold water, ready oneself with poised chopsticks, diners must deftly snatch their fleeting feast from the water’s embrace.