How to Eat Okonomiyaki Like a Local: Osaka vs Hiroshima
How to eat okonomiyaki like a local: the hera spatula, how to cut it, and how Osaka differs from Hiroshima, with four top-rated griddles to try.
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Hiroshima's food is okonomiyaki (layered, with noodles, nothing like Osaka's), oysters from the bay in every form, anago (sea eel) over rice on Miyajima, and a spicy tsukemen style that locals eat at heat level 20. Okonomimura, a building of two dozen okonomiyaki counters, is the famous stop; the shops locals rate highest are elsewhere in the city center and in Hatchobori.
Tabelog is useful in Hiroshima because the city gets a lot of day-trippers and the restaurants nearest the Peace Park and the station are priced for them. The 3.5+ okonomiyaki counters are a few streets away.
Hiroshima's highest-scoring restaurants across every cuisine right now. Most need a reservation; the cuisine pages below go deeper, including places you can walk into.
Ranked by Tabelog score as of November 11, 2026, refreshed daily from Tabelog's ranking. Prices are Tabelog's per-person budget bands. Check hours and book with the restaurant before you go.
How to eat okonomiyaki like a local: the hera spatula, how to cut it, and how Osaka differs from Hiroshima, with four top-rated griddles to try.
Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima is rated across a narrow band; 3.4 to 3.6 are the beloved counters and the differences are about the noodles and the griddle skill. Oyster restaurants at 3.5+ are excellent. Miyajima's anago-meshi houses sit around 3.5 to 3.7.
Hiroshima okonomiyaki, Oysters, Anago-meshi, Hiroshima tsukemen. Layered crepe, cabbage, pork, noodles and egg.
Hatchobori & Hondori for the shopping center with the best okonomiyaki counters and oyster bars; Okonomimura for the multi-story okonomiyaki building near Shintenchi; Nagarekawa for the bar and izakaya district. The pages for okonomiyaki, seafood, ramen in Hiroshima go neighborhood by neighborhood.
Okonomiyaki in Hiroshima is rated across a narrow band; 3.4 to 3.6 are the beloved counters and the differences are about the noodles and the griddle skill. Oyster restaurants at 3.5+ are excellent. Miyajima's anago-meshi houses sit around 3.5 to 3.7.
Tabelog has a limited English site, but most listings, reviews and the useful details (hours, prices, payment methods) are only in Japanese. TabeDog shows Hiroshima's restaurants on an English map with those details translated, using Tabelog's own ratings.
Use the Tabelog score, not the sign. Restaurants with big English signs and touts near Hatchobori & Hondori typically rate 3.0 or lower; the ones locals queue for rate 3.4 and up and are often a street or two away. TabeDog puts both on the same map so the difference is visible.
Open the map, zoom into Hatchobori & Hondori or anywhere else in Hiroshima, and filter by Tabelog score, cuisine, price and what's open now.
Open Hiroshima on the mapOr browse by cuisine: Okonomiyaki, Seafood, Ramen, Izakaya, Unagi.