Reichan is an okonomiyaki restaurant in Ekimae, Hiroshima.
Editorially verified August 3, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Private tour · 4 hours
Discover the soul of Hiroshima on a private food tour with a local guide. Learn about Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki, visit the heart of the local food scene, and eat lik...
Guided tour · 1.5 hours
Cook authentic Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki at a beloved local restaurant. Step into a real teppanyaki kitchen, cook with the owner, and enjoy the okonomiyaki you made ...
Guided tour · 2 hours
Learn how to make Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki with a local chef. Choose from meat, seafood, vegetarian, and gluten-free options, and get hands-on with the chef’s guidance.
Address: 1-2 Matsubara-cho, Minami-ku, Hiroshima
Bakudanya is the Shintenchi shop that pushed Hiroshima tsukemen beyond the city: cold noodles dipped in a chilli and seafood-stock sauce you grade yourself.
OrderHiroshima tsukemen, choosing your own heat level
TipThe dipping sauce comes in graded heat steps, so order low on a first visit and add chilli powder at the table.
Chukasoba Youki has cooked one dish in Eba since 1958, and its soy and pork-bone bowl is exactly what Hiroshima people mean when they say chuka soba.
OrderChuka soba, the only thing the kitchen makes
TipThe Eba flagship shuts on the 1st, 12th, 13th and 26th of each month, so check the date before crossing the river.
Musashibo serves Hiroshima's broth-free tantanmen a short walk from the Chudenmae tram stop, ordered by vending machine and graded by heat at no extra cost.
OrderShirunashi tantanmen, stirred thirty times before eating
TipHeat runs on a four-step scale with level two as the house standard, and stepping up costs nothing extra.
Mongoi-tei in Tanna builds a chicken, pork and seafood broth finished with dried fish and prawn oil, one of Hiroshima's busiest late ramen rooms.
OrderThe seafood tonkotsu ramen with extra dried-fish oil
TipThe Tanna flagship sits south of the centre near Ujina, and it runs lunch every day but shuts the dinner service on Tuesdays.
Tsubame Ramen works a small Higashi-Kanon room in western Hiroshima, a neighbourhood chuka soba counter rather than a stop on any visitor circuit.
OrderChuka soba, the shop's soy-and-pork standard
TipService runs unbroken from 11:30 to 22:00 on every day except Sunday, which is the one day the shutters stay down.
Rai Rai Tei is a plain Minami-ku noodle room in Hiroshima with a split lunch and dinner service and a queue that forms without any signage at all.
OrderChuka soba at lunch, before the kitchen breaks at 15:30
TipThe kitchen closes between 15:30 and 17:00 from Tuesday to Saturday, and the whole shop shuts on Mondays.