A new year welcomes new feelings. Great tourist spots are excellent for visiting at the start of the year, so the new year will be a good one. Here are 5 restaurants in the Miyajima area of Hiroshima, said to be the island of the gods. These restaurants cover a wide range of food types, from Japanese to French to cafes. These restaurants are sure to fill your spirit and stomach, along with the amazing tourist spots.
Japanese cuisine - Tensen
Enjoy sushi using local seasonal ingredients along with Japanese sake.
This restaurant is located a little way from the central shopping area of Miyajima and lets guests enjoy a refuge-style atmosphere. The interior is unified with a Japanese modern-style design that combines walls and columns that let one feel the warmth of wood, along with counters with white tiles. Guests can comfortably enjoy meals here while gazing at the inner garden from their counter seats.
Tensen
Sushi - Miyajimazushi Maimon
Enjoy several kinds of original sushi while gazing at the Seto Inland Sea.
Miyajimazushi Maimon is located a 5-minute walk from Miyajimaguchi Station. Here, guests can enjoy original sushi made by a former Italian cuisine chef. They use a variety of ingredients from the Seto Inland Sea and the Hokuriku region. This restaurant serves numerous cuisines with high-quality flavors and appearances, and they are served with Miyajima-yaki and Osunayaki, which are said to be traditional crafts of Hiroshima.
This restaurant is located along the Seto Inland Sea, so it is in an excellent location where one can look over Miyajima and Itsukushima Shrine from the restaurant windows. The interior has 10 counter seats and 26 table seats. In this chic and relaxing atmosphere, one can enjoy plenty of high-quality, original sushi for lunch and dinner.
Miyajimazushi Maimon
Closed: Wednesday
Average price: [Dinner] 9,000 JPY / [Lunch] 3,500 JPY
Access: 5-minute walk from Hiroden Miyajimaguchi Station (184m)
Address: 1F, RealMare Bogenso, 1-8-14, Miyajimaguchi, Hatsukaichi-shi, Hiroshima Map
French cuisine - SIMOSE French Restaurant
Try amazing dishes in this location that overlooks the Seto Inland Sea.
SIMOSE French Restaurant is located a 5-minute drive from the Otake Interchange. They serve French menu items that let one taste plenty of local ingredients, including the specialty Prawn and Tomato Jelly with Red Pepper Sauce, which uses Hiroshima tomatoes. Another excellent point about the courses is that you can choose the number of items depending on how hungry you are.
This restaurant is located in a corner of the spacious premises of Simose Art Garden Villa, a complex that includes 10 villas and museums. The interior has large windows and is quite bright, with an open-feeling construction. They have movable partitions, so the restaurant can be used as a private space. Full restaurant reservations for around 30 people are also possible.
SIMOSE French Restaurant
Cafe - Cafe Rob Hiroshima Miyajimaguchi Branch
Guests will smack their lips at the fluffy pancakes in this restaurant that overlooks the harbor.
Cafe Rob Hiroshima Miyajimaguchi Branch is located a 5-minute walk from Miyajimaguchi Station. This restaurant boasts amazing Taiwanese pancakes. The high-quality pancakes they serve feature dough and cream handmade that very day, along with incredibly fluffy textures. These piled-up pancakes with their cream thickly flowing out are a hot topic on social media.
Cafe Rob Hiroshima Miyajimaguchi Branch
Closed: None
Average price: [Lunch] 1,500 JPY
Access: 5-minute walk from JR Miyajimaguchi Station toward the ferry pier
Address: 2F, Real Mare, 1-10-11, Miyajimaguchi, Hatsukaichi-shi, Hiroshima Map
Japanese cuisine - Conger eel and oysters Mametanuki
A Japanese restaurant where guests can enjoy Miyajima specialties such as conger eel and oysters.
Conger Eel and Oysters Mametanuki is located in the Omotesando shopping street, which can be accessed from Miyajima Sanbashi. It is a restaurant attached to a traditional Ryokan inn that has over 100 years of history since its founding. They serve numerous kinds of cuisine that use Miyajima specialties, such as conger eel and oysters. Here, guests can enjoy the menu items made with a local production for local consumption philosophy, with the greatest care taken to use Hiroshima ingredients as much as possible.
