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Last updated on May 16th, 2026

Finding local delicacies and what to eat in Hiroshima? Here’s the Hiroshima Food Guide with all the best dishes to help you plan your food trip in the city.

Hiroshima is one of the most popular places to visit in Japan. This historical city continues to draw in tourists from around the world with its rich culture, fantastic sights, and attractions, of course, sumptuous food. The city is filled with a variety of local delicacies and mouthwatering foods. Dine on incredibly okonomiyaki, fresh seafood, and some unique street food to taste Hiroshima’s food culture. There’s no way to miss the best food when visiting the city.

We don’t have much time to fully enjoy all the best food in Hiroshima during our visit. But one thing seems clear, the city is full of incredibly nice food. Exploring Hiroshima‘s food scene is for sure one of the best things to do when visiting the city.

If you’re visiting Hiroshima and looking for where and what to eat in the city, then listed in this Hiroshima food guide will be very helpful for your food trip. We will share all the must-eat food and the best restaurant, plus food tips to help you eat your way around the city.

Hiroshima Food Guide: What To Eat

To help you find the best food in the city, here’s the Hiroshima Food Guide where you can find all the delicious food here.

Hiroshima Food Guide – What To Eat in the City:

Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki
Oysters
Momiji Manju
Anago (Saltwater eel)
Hiroshima Lemon

Hiroshima Food Tips: Want to explore Hiroshima food and eat at a local restaurant? Check out some of the most popular food and drinking tours in the city.

Hiroshima-style Okonomiyaki

Hiroshima’s most famous food is its style of okonomiyaki!

Trying the Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki, a savory grilled pancake is a must-eat food in the city. A thin layer of wheat flour batter is mixed with a generous amount of cabbage that is cooked in front of you on the teppanyaki grill.

You can customize the okonomiyaki with porks, oysters, squid, or other ingredients based on your liking. The dish is completed when drizzled with Japanese mayonnaise, okonomiyaki sauce, and bonito flakes. Truly delicious!

Unlike the Osaka-style, the Hiroshima okonomiyaki is commonly layered with soba or udon at the bottom. The ingredients are also cooked layered rather than mixed them.

Where To Eat Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima

There are plenty of okonomiyaki restaurants in Hiroshima, below are a few recommendations:

Nagata-ya (長田屋) is one of the top-rated restaurants for okonomiyaki in Hiroshima, so be prepared to wait a while. But it’ll be well worth your wait. They have English menus with pictures to make ordering easy.

Yagenbori Hassho (薬研堀八昌) is another popular place to taste the Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. It has a Bib Gourmand and Tabelog Hyakumeiten Okonomiyaki award for 2019 and 2018 to their name. Extremely popular with snake long queue during the dining hours.

Okonomi-mura is a central place to dine on this regional dish in the dedicated building. The building is packed with around 24 restaurants with each chef serving their variation of okonomiyaki.

Oysters

Hiroshima Food Guide - Fresh Oyster From Kakiya Miyajima

Located on the Seto Inland Sea, Hiroshima is one of the best places to taste the freshness of oysters. Approximately 60-70% of Japan’s oyster is produced from the bay and winter season is the peak season for oysters.

Oyster in Japan are commonly eaten raw with pouzi sauces or cooked into various types of oyster cuisines like deep-fried, baked, grilled, or served on top of rice (donburi).

Where To Eat Oyster in Hiroshima

Grilled Oysters Stall in Miyajima Hiroshima

Miyajima is the best place to taste the fresh oyster in Hiroshima. And winter is the best time to taste the oysters in Hiroshima. Many locals will flock to Miyajima island to taste it.

Oysters are offered at many dining establishments in Miyajima such as restaurants, food stands, eateries, and even Kaiseiki meals in the ryokan.

Kakiya Oyster speciality restaurant in Miyajima

The most popular option is the oyster specialty restaurant, Kakiya (牡蠣屋). The restaurant is located in the busy Omotesando Shopping Street of Miyajima and is well-known for its oyster dishes, especially the kaki meshi.

The osyters are juicy and perfectly cooked. It was delicious and one of the best-cooked oysters I’ve ever tasted. It was so good that we had to go back to Miyajima a second time to have it again.

Momiji manju

The Momiji Manju is a pancake sweet baked in the shape of maple leaves with a filling of sweet red bean paste. Nowadays, Momiji Manju can be found with many different fillings such as matcha, cheese, custard and chocolate, and even deep-fried. They are sold by many confectioneries on Miyajima, as well as souvenir shops in Hiroshima.

This maple leaf-shaped is a type of Japanese street food snack, and is particularly very popular in Miyajima. It was created in the early 1900s as a local specialty to represent Momijidani, a popular maple leaf viewing spot. You can easily find these treats in almost every confectioneries and eateries in Miyajima as well as in Hiroshima.

Iwamura Momijiya is one of the oldest shops, founded in the late Meiji era that sells momiji manju. The best thing about the shop is they also keep it very traditional when comes to making their momiji manju.

The red bean Momiji manju is filled with a generous amount of azuki bean paste and isn’t too sweet. We found their red bean filling here is much more savory and less sweet. Highly recommended.

Popular place for Momiji Manju - Momijido Nibanya

Another popular shop to taste the Momiji manju is Momijido Nibanya (紅葉堂). Choose from the 5 flavors and you can have the fried momiji manju treat on a stick.

Fried Momiji manju from Momijido Nibanya - What To Eat in Hiroshima

The Momiji manju is deep-fried to perfection and absolutely yummy. Highly recommended!

Anago (Saltwater eel)

Anago is a regional dish of Hiroshima and is loved by locals. Compared with the common conger eel, anago is the saltwater eel and it is less fatty. In Hiroshima, the anago is boiled and grilled with seasonal sauce, and then served on a bed of rice.

Anagomeshi Ueno - Best Anago in Hiroshima Food Guide

Where To Eat Anago in Hiroshima:

The best anago voted by locals is the Anagomeshi Ueno. Almost everyone will recommend this restaurant if you to try the best anago in Hiroshima. Anagomeshi Ueno has been serving its famous anago rice bowls since the early 1900s with a salty-sweet sauce.

It is conveniently located in a busy street on the bay when travelers board the ferry to Miyajima. You can easily spot the crowd who queueing outside of the restaurant everyday since open. Extremely popular, and expected queue to taste this local delicacy.

Hiroshima Lemon

Hiroshima or Chugoku region is famous for its natural produce like lemon.

When eating the food, we loved to order a cup of drink with fresh lemon from Hiroshima. After a rich bowl of oyster or flavorful okonomiyaki, the lemon helps to cleanse your palette. It was so good when washed down with a mug of lemon Highball. One of the best drinks I had ever tasted in my life. This was so good!

Where you can taste Hiroshima lemon:

Many restaurants in Hiroshima serve lemon drinks on their menu. We had lemon coke in Kakiya Miyajima and Nagata-ya in the downtown area.

Oveview: Best Food For Hiroshima Food Guide

All in all, we hope this Hiroshima food guide is helpful to find the best food to eat in the city. To be honest, we’re only spending 2 days in the city and just beginning to scratch the surface of all the tasty Hiroshima food has to offer. There is so much good food in Hiroshima awaiting us to explore. We’ll definitely be back and continuing to find all the best food to eat in the city. Enjoy your food trip to Hiroshima!

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Last updated on May 16th, 2026

To taste the best oyster, Kakiya was the place we visited on Miyajima island. It is a satisfying meal and we highly recommended to come here and taste the island’s famous delicacy.

Oyster is a must-try food in Hiroshima and the best are said to come from Miyajima Island. Eating oysters during your trip to Miyajima island is one of the most enjoyable things to do in Hiroshima. The island is known for its biggest and freshest oysters and you need to taste it during your trip to Miyajima island.

There are many excellent restaurants and grilled oyster stands all over Miyajima. But the famous shop here is called Kakiya, a popular restaurant on Miyajima island that specializes in oyster dishes. It is very popular among locals and foreigners, and can probably be easily spotted with a long queue outside. You can order oysters in any way that you’d like from raw, grilled, deep-fried, and more.

Let’s read on for our oyster feast to Kakiya on Miyajima island!

Kakiya: Oyster Speciality Restaurant in Miyajima

The oyster specialty restaurant, Kakiya (牡蠣屋) is located in the busy Omotesando Shopping Street of Miyajima. It is a 2 story restaurant with modern and minimal design concepts.

Oysters are more commonly eaten cooked in Japan and you can find different kinds of oyster cuisines in the country. At Kakiya, the oysters are served as grilled, deep-fried breaded, charcoal grilled oysters, pan-fried, or many other varieties of oysters. A great place for oyster lovers.

Kakiya (牡蠣屋)
Address: 539 Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0588, Japan.
Operating Hours: Daily from 10:00 to 18:00 (closed early when the food is finished)
Getting there: 3-minute walk from Miyajima Ferry Port
What to Order: Oyster Set!
Expect to Pay: About ¥2,000 to ¥2,500 for the oyster meal

Note that Kakiya only accept cash and Japanese debit card.

A Food Trip To Kakiya Miyajima

We visited Kakija during our trip to Miyajima Island. You wouldn’t miss this while walking along Omotesando Shopping Street as there was already a line shortly before noon. It was not a long wait and we waited for about 30 minutes for a table.

While queueing outside, we can smell the heavenly fragrance of oysters being grilled near the entrance. Can’t wait to taste the oyster!

Dining Area in Kakiya Restaurant (upstair)

The restaurant has table and bar seating areas where you can sit inside to enjoy the food. It also has a takeaway section outside where you can simply order takeaway grilled oysters as they are cooked in front of you.

We were brought to a table upstairs with even more seats in a spacious dining area. I loved the elegant environment too.

No worry about English, as the staff speak very good English and the menu is written in Japanese and English.

What To Order at Kakiya

Kakiya - Must-Eat Oyster in Miyajima Island — Popular Kakiya set

The popular Kakiya set is highly recommended as it has a little bit of their entire menu (oysters in 5 different ways). The set consists of kaki meshi (half portion), 2 pieces of grilled oysters, 3 pieces of fried Oysters, prickled oysters, red miso oyster soup, and salad with Kakiya’s original oyster oil dressing. You can enjoy it all by ordering Kakiya set menu.

Since it was our first time dining in Kakiya, we ordered one of the Kakiya set menus to share, one kaki meshi (oysters cook on full portion rice), and raw oysters. It is definitely the best way to have the oyster feast yet keep some tummy if you want to try other food on the island.

A good way to try the different methods of oysters.

Kaki Meshi (Simmered Oysters on Rice)

Kaki meshi is a dish made with oysters cooked in soy sauce and topped with rice steamed in oyster broth. The rice is infused with the briny and sweetness of the oysters, making it one of the unique food to enjoy.

The oysters were prepared well and were seasoned just right. Delicious!

Among all, we particularly liked the grilled and fried oysters.

The charcoal-grilled oysters are amazing and it was served bubbling in juices. I love the smell of fresh oysters being grilled with its shell. The best way to taste the sweetness and richness of the freshly grilled oyster.

The fried oysters were better than expected. The oysters are deep-fried nicely to a golden brown, and the batter is crisp. When you bite through it you can feel the moisture and juiciness of the oysters flowing through your mouth, and taste the natural flavor of it.

The Kakiya set also comes with prickled oysters where the oyster is marinated in grapeseed oil.

Lastly, it is best to end the Kakiya set with miso soup. The soup is rich in taste with the oyster sweetness in it.

That’s also oyster inside the miso soup. We can’t count how many oysters we ate for the meal in Kakiya.

Raw Oyster

We also add on raw oysters as no raw oysters are included in the set. The plump oysters are so fresh and large. It was amazing and we had to control ourselves to not order more.

Hiroshima is also famous for its locally produced lemons, you can consider to give this a try with the lemon coke or sake.

Kakiya: Best Food To Eat in Miyajima

All in all, we would highly recommend Kakiya to anyone who visits the area. Everything is very fresh and very tasty. We truly enjoyed the food and it is truly an experience as I’ve never had oysters cooked with various types. The oyster meal in Kakiya wasn’t cheap but it is a reasonable price in terms of quality and service. I would recommend Kakiya, the best oyster restaurant on Miyajima Island!

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