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Snacks & Food Gifts

Looking for Hiroshima snacks to take home? Our staff put on pounds tasting Hiroshima snacks and specialty products from Fukuyama to Miyajima. Grab bottles of sake from breweries founded in the 1800s. Replace the Kikkoman in your cupboard with Hiroshima craft soy sauces. Step into snack emporiums with nostalgic treats from around the country. Our snack and food gifts directory is your seasonal catalogue to a better stocked kitchen and grateful friends.

Dashi Doraku Vending Machines (だし道楽自動販売機)

The Dashi Doraku Vending Machines on Nakadori in Kure City is one of the few “dashi” vending machines in the world, with a 500-milliliter plastic bottle filled with dashi made from fish and kelp, including ingredients such as roasted flying fish. At a vending machine in Nakadori, Kure City, you can purchase dashi such as “Dashi-Doraku PREMIUM,” which is only available in Hiroshima, “Yaki-Ago-Iri,” which is the most popular, and “Kombu-Iri,” which uses dashi from kelp.

Moment of Joy

The dashi in PET bottles sold at the Dashi Doraku Vending Machines on Nakadori in Kure is made using carefully selected ingredients and a method that has been handed down in Hiroshima since before World War II. All of the ingredients in the PET bottle, such as grilled sea eel, flying fish, and kelp, are from Japan. The grilled sea eel is grilled over a charcoal fire to prevent the tastelessness of seafood, and the kelp is added together with dashi for a more mature taste. The Hiroshima-exclusive “Dashi-Doraku Premium” has a refined taste with grilled sea eel and Soda-bushi, which is made by smoking bonito from Shikoku.