Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki is a signature dish of Japan; we have verified places to eat it in Hiroshima. A thin crepe batter, a mountain of shredded cabbage, pork belly, a nest of fried soba and an egg, all layered rather than mixed and pressed on a teppan under sweet brown sauce. Start with where to eat Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki in Hiroshima.
Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki · Hiroshima
A thin crepe batter, a mountain of shredded cabbage, pork belly, a nest of fried soba and an egg, all layered rather than mixed and pressed on a teppan under sweet brown sauce.
Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima grew out of issen yoshoku, a prewar snack of batter and spring onion sold to children. After 1945 it became reconstruction food, cooked on sheet-metal griddles at stalls in the bombed centre of the city. Ise Mitsuo, who traded as Mitchan, is credited with fixing the modern shape: the layered build, the dedicated sauce and the addition of noodles under the egg. Stalls from the Nishi-Shintenchi square were moved into a single building in 1965, and that building became Okonomimura. The city now counts okonomiyaki shops in the high hundreds.
Where to eat in Hiroshima:
- Mitchan Sohonten Hatchobori
- Yagenbori Hassho
- Nagataya
- Lopez
- Reichan
Where to eat Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki in Hiroshima: the editor picks