Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Hiroshima from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Hiroshima
Spirale. and Le Clos Blanc, both in Naka, hold Star Wine List awards and pour conventional wine. hiroto, in Naka, has an exceptional Burgundy-focused 500-label list, and Tenyoshi, in Naka, has an extensive list and a Star Wine List.
Spirale. is a small wine bar in Naka with a list of conventional wine and a Star Wine List for 2026. Its owner runs the bar and the service at the counter. The room is a single counter of 12 seats.
Le Clos Blanc is a wine bar in Naka with a list of conventional wine and a Star Wine List for 2026. The selection is French, especially Burgundy, and the bar serves French cheese and homemade quiche. There is no printed wine list. Owner Morishita-san talks through the pour.
hiroto serves creative French tasting menus in a townhouse in Naka, with a Burgundy-focused 500-label wine list. The wine program is exceptional, extensive, and sommelier-led. Cooking is fish-led, with counter seating. Tabelog's French WEST selection for 2025 includes the restaurant.
Tenyoshi is a seasonal tempura omakase in Naka. A husband-and-wife team fries each course at the counter, with sashimi and Japanese small plates alongside. The wine program is extensive, with a sake program and sake sommelier pairings. The restaurant holds a Star Wine List for 2026 and a Tabelog tempura selection.
Nakashima, Chiso Sottakuito, and Eizan serve seasonal kaiseki or omakase in Naka, and Ryoriya Sobiki serves seasonal kaiseki in Saijo. Each keeps a sake program, and Chiso Sottakuito, Eizan, and Ryoriya Sobiki add a wine list.
Nakashima is a traditional Japanese kaiseki restaurant in Naka. Chef Tetsuo Nakashima serves seasonal tasting menus at an intimate counter, with a sake program. Nakashima holds Tabelog Bronze for 2026. Opinionated About Dining ranked the restaurant No. 397 in its Japan list for 2025.
Chiso Sottakuito is a modern Japanese omakase counter in Naka, with nine seats and seasonal Seto Inland Sea seafood. Distinct stocks underpin the cooking, and the chef works in view at the counter. The wine program has a sake program and sommelier-led service. Tabelog Silver for 2026 places it at 4.6 points. Opinionated About Dining ranked the restaurant in its Japan list for the same year.
Eizan is an eight-seat seasonal kaiseki omakase counter in Naka. Chef Kotaro Masunaga cooks Seto Inland Sea ingredients, and an open charcoal grill faces the seats. The wine program has a sake program. Tabelog Bronze for 2026 places the restaurant at 4.3 points, and Tabelog's Japanese cuisine WEST selection includes it.
Ryoriya Sobiki is a traditional seasonal kaiseki restaurant in Saijo. The menu runs as omakase and tasting courses, using seasonal ingredients, local spring water, and a premium sake selection. The restaurant has a sake program. Tabelog Bronze for 2026 places it at 4.2 points. The room is a small counter with a private room.
NAKADO in Naka serves French tasting menus with an extensive wine list. DIRETTO in Naka serves wood-fired Italian cooking with a sommelier-led list, and NICON in Naka serves a four-hour Italian course with wine.
NAKADO is chef Seiji Nakado's modern French restaurant in Naka, with tasting menus and a prix fixe at the counter. The wine list is extensive, with sommelier-led service and a sake program. Tabelog Bronze for 2026 places the restaurant at 4.2 points. A French WEST selection also includes it. The room is a small counter with a private room.
NICON is a modern Italian restaurant in Naka, a counter-only room with a four-hour course. Cooking is fish-led, with handmade pasta. Tabelog Bronze for 2026 places it at 4.1 points, and an Italian WEST selection includes the restaurant.
DIRETTO is a wood-fired Italian restaurant in Naka, with an extensive, sommelier-led wine list. The kitchen uses seasonal Hiroshima and Setouchi ingredients. Formats include omakase, a set menu, and a la carte at an eight-seat counter. Tabelog's Italian WEST selection for 2025 includes the restaurant, at 4 points.
This modern French restaurant in Nishi serves a tasting menu with an extensive wine list and a sake program. The kitchen uses vegetables grown in its garden and local Hiroshima ingredients, including Sakakiyama beef. The restaurant occupies a house.
Naka is the neighborhood for the serious wine lists in our top venues. Spirale. and Le Clos Blanc are both in Naka, with conventional wine and Star Wine List awards for 2026. Le Clos Blanc's selection is French, especially Burgundy, with French cheese and homemade quiche. hiroto, in Naka, has an exceptional program and a Burgundy-focused 500-label list, sommelier-led. Tenyoshi, a tempura counter in Naka, holds a Star Wine List and an extensive list with a sake program.
Our guide counts no Michelin-starred restaurants in Hiroshima and no Michelin stars in total. Both figures are citywide. Michelin Selected for 2025 is held by Etajimasou Hotel & SPA Hiroshima in Etajima and by KIRO Hiroshima by THE SHARE HOTELS in Naka.
Most restaurants on our tasting-menu list are in Naka. Nakashima, Chiso Sottakuito, and Eizan serve kaiseki or omakase in Naka, and NAKADO, hiroto, and DIRETTO serve French or Italian courses in Naka. Soshi and Tenyoshi are also in Naka. Ryoriya Sobiki serves seasonal kaiseki in Saijo, and Chinese Sai Kichijitsu serves seasonal Chinese tasting menus in Higashi.
Spirale., Le Clos Blanc, and Tenyoshi hold a Star Wine List for 2026, and all three are in Naka. Spirale. and Le Clos Blanc are wine bars with wine lists of conventional wine. Le Clos Blanc's selection is French, especially Burgundy. Tenyoshi is a seasonal tempura counter with an extensive wine list and a sake program.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Hiroshima
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Selected entries from the current guide for Hiroshima.
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Nakashima places Hiroshima kaiseki in a small-room register rather than the city’s louder oyster-and-okonomiyaki shorthand. Tetsuo Nakashima’s restaurant is recognised by Tabelog with a 2026 Bronze Award and by Opinionated About Dining in its 2026 Japan Recommended list, making it a serious address for diners comparing regional Japanese cuisine beyond Kyoto and Tokyo.
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Chiso Sottakuito is a nine-seat counter for Japanese cuisine in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward, priced in the JPY 20,000–29,999 dinner tier and recognized with Tabelog Silver in 2026. The format is reservation-only, counter-led, cash-only, and built around fish, dashi, sake, shochu, and wine rather than spectacle.
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Sobiki places Saijo’s water, fish culture, and sake-town identity inside a disciplined Japanese cuisine format rather than a city-centre spectacle. Its Tabelog Award Bronze recognition and Tabelog Japanese Cuisine WEST 100 selection put it in the serious regional tier for Hiroshima dining, with a small counter-and-private-room setup that rewards diners who care about provenance and pacing.
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NAKADO gives Hiroshima’s serious French dining a compact, ingredient-led address rather than a grand dining-room statement. Its Tabelog Bronze run from 2023 to 2026 and Tabelog French WEST 100 selections place it in the city’s higher tier, with a small counter-and-private-room format built around fish, wine, sake, and course-menu discipline.
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Tabelog Bronze Award winner for 2025 and 2026, Soshi is a 14-seat counter sushi restaurant in Hiroshima's Naka Ward focused on Setouchi fish interpreted through an Edomae framework. Dinner runs JPY 20,000–29,999 with two fixed seatings nightly. Reservations are booked several months ahead and accepted exclusively through the OMAKASE online platform.
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Hiroshima’s beef dining scene is often read through casual grills and okonomiyaki-adjacent comfort, but Wagyu lab K belongs to a narrower counter-led category. The draw is provenance and control: a reservation-only yakiniku, steak and beef-dish format built around Hiroshima’s Sakakiyama Beef, with Tabelog Bronze recognition in 2025 and 2026 anchoring its credibility.
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Eizan is a small Hiroshima Japanese-cuisine counter built around ritual, restraint, and a narrow service rhythm rather than spectacle. Recognition includes The Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze and selection for Tabelog Japanese cuisine WEST 100 in 2025, placing it in the serious regional conversation for formal Japanese dining.
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Tomisuke belongs to Hiroshima’s serious seafood-led Japanese dining tier, where small counters, sake, and precise sourcing matter more than spectacle. Its Tabelog Bronze recognition in 2025 and 2026, plus selection for Tabelog Japanese cuisine WEST 100 in 2025, place it above the city’s casual izakaya field and closer to a destination dinner for travelers tracking regional fish culture.
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LOPEZ brings Hiroshima okonomiyaki into a compact counter format in Yokogawa, with teppanyaki structure and a Latin American category note that separates it from standard station-area grill rooms. Recognition on Tabelog’s Okonomiyaki 100 list in 2025, a 17-seat setup, and moderate pricing place it in the city’s serious but casual okonomiyaki tier.
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ANDERSEN gives Hiroshima’s Hondori district a different kind of food stop: bread, cafe service, European-leaning plates, take-out, and a wine-bar layer under one roof. Its Tabelog Bread WEST “Tabelog 100” 2022 selection places it within western Japan’s serious bakery conversation, while the family-friendly format makes it easier to fold into a city day than a formal tasting counter.
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Bishu Bikou Hamai belongs to Hiroshima’s serious izakaya tier: seafood-led, sake-minded, and selected for Tabelog 100 Izakaya WEST 2025. Its appeal is not a grand tasting-menu performance but the disciplined middle ground between tavern ease and ingredient-focused cooking, a useful counterpoint to the city’s better-known okonomiyaki circuit.
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Butter Cake no Nagasaki Do is a Hiroshima sweet shop in Nakamachi with a take-out format, a JPY 1,000–1,999 spend range, and selection for Tabelog 100 Sweets WEST 2023. Its appeal sits in Japan’s gift-sweets culture: compact, specific, easy to carry, and judged less by spectacle than by consistency.
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Chinese Sai Kichijitsu puts Hiroshima’s small-format Chinese dining in a sharper register: eight seats, reservation-only service, and a 2026 Tabelog 100 Chinese WEST selection. Its interest lies less in grand banquet language than in how a compact room can translate regional Chinese technique through Japanese seasonality and sourcing discipline.
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Denkou Sekka Ekie hiroshima ten gives Hiroshima Station an okonomiyaki counter with serious local credentials: a Tabelog 100 Okonomiyaki selection in 2023, 2024, and 2025. The format suits travelers who want the city’s defining griddled dish without turning lunch or dinner into a long detour.
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DIRETTO places Hiroshima’s Italian dining conversation in a compact counter format, with fish, wine, and firewood shaping the public identity rather than hotel-dining polish. Recognition in Tabelog’s Italian WEST “Tabelog 100” in 2023 and 2025 puts it in a selective regional bracket, while the room’s eight counter seats make the experience feel closer to a focused atelier than a conventional trattoria.
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Hiroshima’s French dining scene is smaller and more locally legible than Tokyo or Osaka, which makes Tabelog recognition carry particular weight. EPURE sits in Kyobashicho near Inari Machi, with a 2025 Tabelog French WEST 100 selection placing it among the region’s more closely watched French rooms.
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Hiroshima’s okonomiyaki culture is built around counter cooking, iron-plate timing, and the easy rhythm of a meal that can follow shopping, drinking, or a late train. Fumi Chan Nagarekawa ten sits in that civic ritual with Tabelog 100 Okonomiyaki selections in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024, and 2025, giving it stronger credentials than a casual first glance suggests.
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Ganso Hassho belongs to Hiroshima’s counter-led okonomiyaki culture, where craft is measured in griddle discipline rather than luxury cues. Its Tabelog 100 Okonomiyaki selections in 2023, 2024, and 2025 place it in a serious local bracket, with a seven-seat format and take-out service reinforcing the small-scale, food-first character.
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Hiroshima’s izakaya culture is at its sharpest when small counters treat sourcing as the point, not decoration. Hatsu Chan sits in that category: a 13-seat, counter-only tavern recognized in Tabelog 100 Izakaya WEST 2025, with steak, ramen, sake, and shochu placing it closer to a serious drinking kitchen than a casual snack stop.
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Hiroshima Marukajiri Naka-chan belongs to the city’s serious okonomiyaki conversation, but its appeal is broader than griddle work alone. The format crosses okonomiyaki, izakaya cooking, and teppanyaki, with fish and Japanese drinks giving the meal a more ingredient-led rhythm than the city’s quicker pancake counters.
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hiroto places Hiroshima’s French dining in a quieter register: fish-led cooking, wine service, counter seating, and a compact 20-seat room in Fujimicho. Its selection for Tabelog French WEST “Tabelog 100” in 2025 and 2023 gives it a clear signal within western Japan’s French category, while the reservation-only format keeps the experience firmly in planned-dinner territory.
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Hiroshima’s horumon and yakiniku culture rewards restaurants that treat offal as a primary craft rather than a secondary order. Horumon Ryori Senmonjo Toneya belongs to that specialist lane, with tripe, teppanyaki and Japanese barbecue backed by Tabelog 100 Yakiniku WEST 2025 recognition.
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Icchan Honten belongs to Hiroshima’s serious okonomiyaki circuit: compact, counter-led, and recognized in Tabelog’s Okonomiyaki 100 selections for 2019, 2024, and 2025. Its appeal is not luxury polish but ingredient logic, griddle discipline, and the city’s layered approach to cabbage, noodles, batter, sauce, and heat.
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Ichigo Ichie sits in Hiroshima’s late-night Nagarekawa dining district, where okonomiyaki overlaps with teppanyaki, local seafood, and sake-led drinking culture. Its 2025 selection for Tabelog 100 Okonomiyaki places it in a more selective tier than the city’s casual okonomiyaki counters, with pricing that reflects a broader grill-and-seafood format rather than a quick plate of noodles and batter.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Hiroshima.
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A Michelin Selected ryokan-style property on Etajima Island, accessed by ferry from Hiroshima's Ujina Port, Etajimasou Hotel & SPA Hiroshima sits outside the city's main hotel corridor in a quieter register of the Seto Inland Sea. The property earned its 2025 Michelin Selected distinction through a combination of setting, spa provision, and the kind of removed coastal atmosphere that urban Hiroshima hotels cannot replicate.
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Hilton Hiroshima occupies a purposeful position in the city's business and conference hotel tier, recognised as a Regional Winner for Luxury Conference and Event Hotel and Country Winner for Best Presidential Suite. Located in Naka Ward at the civic heart of the city, it offers a reference point for large-scale hospitality in a destination more often associated with heritage tourism than high-end accommodation.
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A Michelin Selected property in Hiroshima's Naka-ku district, KIRO Hiroshima by THE SHARE HOTELS occupies a design-led position within Japan's growing cohort of locally rooted boutique hotels. The address places guests within reach of the city's central landmarks, while the property's recognition signals a standard above the anonymous business hotel tier that dominates much of Hiroshima's accommodation offer.
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KAI Miyajima belongs to Hiroshima’s quieter side of hospitality: a stay shaped less by urban spectacle than by island approach, water, shrine culture, and the measured grammar of Japanese innkeeping.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Hiroshima.
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A pocket-sized wine bar in Hiroshima's Nagarekawa district, Le Clos Blanc operates on a philosophy that makes it unusual among Japan's Western-style drinking venues: no printed wine list, just a conversation with the owner about what you feel like drinking. The European interior and intimate format place it firmly in the specialist tier of Hiroshima's after-dark scene.
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A 12-seat wine bar two blocks from Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park, Spirale opened in November 2022 under the sole direction of its owner-operator. The intimate format places it firmly in Japan's specialist wine-bar tier, where curation depth and personal service define the offer. Situated on the second floor of Flex Building in Naka Ward, it operates at a scale where every bottle on the list carries weight.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Hiroshima.
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