With a history of almost 80 years. Tachibana is one of the longest-running businesses on Miyajima’s bustling Omotesando Shopping Street. Low-key and down-to-earth, serving hearty meals, with its retro decor inside and out (look out for the smiling deer that watches over the goldfish that swim in a giant urn in front of the shop), Tachibana evokes the vibe of Miyajima before the recent overseas tourist boom.
Choose to sit at low tables on chairs or kick off your shoes and enjoy your meal zashiki-style, sat on tatami mats. On the menu, packed with Miyajima specialties like oysters, conger eel, and Japanese comfort foods, is a vegetable tendon (rice bowl topped with tempura) served with kelp soup made with vegan konbu dashi.
Tachibana has made great efforts to make their menu more vegetarian and vegan-friendly, switching from white sugar to cane sugar and sourcing egg-free tempura flour. Tempura and fried potatoes are, however, not fried in separate oil. For a 100% vegan option, go for their hot or cold udon noodles, made with konbu dashi (their soba noodles contain egg white) and a side of eda mame.
This article was originally published on GetHiroshima.
Tachibana
〒739-0588 Hiroshima, Hatsukaichi, Miyajimacho, Kitanomachi-hama 566-1
0829-440-240
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