There is also a café with a terrace seat overlooking the majestic Kiso-Mitake mountain. The recommendations vary depending on the season, but popular menus throughout the year, such as buckwheat cake 450 yen, fluffy omurice 850 yen and grilled curry 1200 yen, are also open for a limited time in winter.

Kaeda Kogen, located on the northeast side of the foot of Mount Kiso-Ontake, is the locality of buckwheat. It is located along National Route 361 in that Kaida Kogen, and is a soba specialty store here that uses only the self-grown buckwheat gensoba and the locally grown gensoba. Home-milled for the day to cherish the flavor, and beat buckwheat noodles every day. Zaru soba 950 yen. The specialty is a special pickle made from fermented red turnip stalks, which is a suunki soba with suunki on top of 1020 yen.

200年以上前に建てられた古民家で営業するそば店。そば粉は開田高原産と信州産のそば粉をブレンドしたものを使用。ざるそば1150円のほか、しゃぶしゃぶのように竹でできた小さな投汁[とうじ]カゴでそばを茹でて賞味する、とうじそば1350円が人気だ(料金はいずれも税別)。宿泊(1万1000円)も可。