For lunch, head somewhere that is sure to brighten your mood. Try Hiroshima’s specialty street food – Okonomiyaki!
Okonomiyaki is Japan’s pan-fried savory pancake, made from a flour-based batter, shredded cabbage, bean sprouts, and egg. Add other ingredients to your liking such as pork strips, octopus, shrimp, mochi, or cheese. In Hiroshima, okonomiyaki is made with noodles mixed inside the batter too. This is all fried on the griddle, then served with sauce on top.
Okonomiyaki-mura (translated to Okonomiyaki Village) is a great place where foreigners and locals go to get their okonomiyaki fix. It’s packed with dozens of okonomiyaki restaurants, so take a seat at any one! All okonomiyaki can be made vegetarian with the meat taken out of it. On most menus there is yakisoba, fried noodles, that you can order too.