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Casual Japanese Eats

What do Hiroshima locals normally eat? It’s a lot more than okonomiyaki and oysters. Dig into rich, umami bowls of Japanese curry. Find fresh and affordable yet locally sourced kaiten sushi. Slurp up bowls of Sanuki udon, authentic Hakata ramen and sarashina soba. These choices are just a toe in the water, though. Wade in deeper to find crispy Edomae tempura, juicy Mochibuta tonkatsu, hearty bowls of gyūdon, steaming sukiyaki and more below. Our casual eats selection in Hiroshima is your insider on the local diet.

Toutetsu-an (饕餮庵)

Located about a 2-minute walk from Hakushima Station, the terminus of the streetcar #9 line, Toutetsu-an is a soba noodle restaurant that specializes in stone-ground, handmade soba noodles. This renowned soba restaurant, which thrived for 25 years in the neighboring city of Kure, relocated and reopened in 2025, in the Hakushima area in downtown Hiroshima. The soba menu offers two types of soba: hot soba and cold soba. Customers can also order set meals that combine soba with tempura or tempura rice bowls.

Moment of Joy

The soba served at Toutetsu-an are manufactured by hand every morning in the restaurant’s noodle-making facility. Carefully selected domestic buckwheat seeds are ground into stone-ground flour, and the noodles are made to the optimal hardness according to the temperature and humidity. This establishment is committed to making 100% buckwheat soba, allowing visitors to enjoy the fragrant flavor that can only be experienced from pure buckwheat noodles.