Visit Duration
60 minutes
Okonomi-mura
お好み村Hiroshima
Food area
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At a Glance
Okonomi-mura, literally Okonomiyaki Village, is a food theme park in Shintenchi, Naka ward, Hiroshima. It stands near the east end of the Hondōri shopping street, and its second to fourth floors hold about two dozen restaurants serving Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki. Each has a slightly different style and set of ingredients, and all use a specialty sauce made for the village by Sun Foods.
The area's okonomiyaki grew out of issen yōshoku, a thin pancake popular in Hiroshima before the war that became a cheap meal for survivors after the atomic bombing of 1945. From around 1950, okonomiyaki stalls lined Chūō-dōri, and a writer is said to have remarked that the row looked like an okonomiyaki village. After the stalls were cleared in 1965, the shops formed Okonomi-mura, which moved into its present seven-story building in 1992.
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