Nara's plant-based scene is small but real: five fully vegan restaurants clustered near Nara Park and the two stations, plus an honest look at why there's no shojin ryori restaurant at Todai-ji itself.
5 verified plant-based restaurants in Naha, plus a dedicated vegan menu at the airport
Naha's vegan scene is small but real: five owner-run restaurants within walking distance of Kokusai-dori serve fully plant-based Okinawan food, and Naha Airport has its own dedicated vegan menu. Here's what's confirmed, with hours, prices, and honest caveats as of July 2026.
From a fully vegan bakery-café in Motomachi to century-old Chinatown restaurants with dedicated vegan menus — eight real, verified options across Yokohama.
Yokohama has only a handful of fully vegan restaurants, but it also has something almost no other Japanese city offers: two century-old Chinatown institutions with real, separately prepared vegan menus. Here are eight verified places, from Motomachi to Yokohama Station to Chinatown.
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Until May 2025, Hiroshima had no fully vegan restaurant at all -- you could only get vegan-friendly okonomiyaki with the pork and egg left out. That changed with JoGeSaYu, a five-minute walk from Peace Memorial Park. As of July 2026, here's the honest picture: one fully vegan kitchen from two acclaimed chefs, one dedicated vegan-okonomiyaki specialist, and the one souvenir (momiji manju) that actually has a verified vegan version.
Kobe is famous worldwide for a beef so prized it doesn't need a last name -- which makes it an unlikely place to look for vegan food. As of July 2026, three real addresses make it possible: a fully vegan, entirely gluten-free café in Motomachi, a long-running macrobiotic café in Sannomiya with clearly marked vegan dishes, and an Egyptian-run falafel counter between the two. Here's where to go, what to order, and why 'no meat' isn't the same as 'no dashi.'