Shrine
Hokoku Jinja
Miyajima•233m(3 min walk)
Miyajima Omotesando Shopping Street
宮島表参道商店街Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima
Shopping
What makes this place special?
At a Glance
Miyajima Omotesando is the island’s shopping street for local food and crafts, with momiji cakes, oyster dishes and rice-paddle souvenirs.
The street leads towards the Itsukushima Shrine area and brings together independently run souvenir shops and places to eat. It is a commercial street, distinct from the shrine itself and the parallel Machiya Street. Pick individual shops for a food or shopping stop rather than treating the entire area as one attraction with a common timetable.
- Momiji cakes and local food shops
- Rice-paddle souvenirs and Miyajima crafts
Goshuin within a short walk
Temples, shrines and castles near Miyajima Omotesando Shopping Street that give goshuin, closest first.
How do I visit?
Admission
This is a street of independent businesses, not one ticketed attraction. No uniform admission tariff is published for all shops and experiences. Food, goods and optional activities have their own charges.
Know before you go
Use the official shop map to choose food and craft stops, then check the selected business’s current hours; the map is dated September 2024, so its prices and timetables are not current guarantees. The giant rice paddle moved to Miyajima’s community development centre in 2021 and is no longer a shopping-street display. The street photo shown is historical, from November 2008. For a different focus from shopping, Momijidani Park offers a maple-lined valley walk. The local tourism association describes mid-to-late November as the usual autumn-colour period, not a guarantee of today’s leaf conditions. It is a separate destination shown on the official walking map.
Tip from Goshuin Atlas, Source-based travel guidance
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