Izumo soba is really good. I mean it’s soba, it’s not fancy, but it’s good.
This is set in Izumo / Matsue area which is probably just where the author lives but is a cool part of the country. One of the pre-Yamato kingdoms was centered there. Lots of important old shrines and legends.
And — fittingly for this series, which is why I mention it at all — people around there are noticeably more superstitious (just a couple years ago some guy got scolded by police for making ushi-no-toki-mairi!)