One of my favorite things to do in Miyajima is to visit the downtown area and sample the street food. There is one main street in Miyajima that has these cool awnings that open and close, weather dependent.

Either way, here you can find great little restaurants and outside vendors selling street food.  Street food is not as popular as I had hoped around Japan, so it’s always a nice treat when visiting Miyajima. One of their most famous treats here are the momiji, which are kind of like fried dough pastries with some sort of filling. In Japan a popular filling is red bean paste, not our favorite but we are slowly getting used to it, I prefer custard or chocolate.

The Hiroshima area is famous for oysters and there is no shortage of them here. You can find several vendors selling freshly grilled oysters or fried oysters on a stick. I’ve tried both and they are oh so yummy! Many restaurants will also serve oysters, usually they are a bit more pricey but equally as good. One of my favorite treats is this long fish cake on a stick. I’m not sure what the correct name is but there are several stalls that sell them. You can get them with various toppings, I personally like bacon and cheese.

Last time Jill and I went, we got ice cream with hot sweet potato and it was actually very tasty. The chunks of hot sweet potato paired nicely with freshly made vanilla.

There are a lot of sit down restaurants in Miyajima as well. You can find everything from okonomiyaki and ramen to local izakaya’s and bars.

One other favorite stop of mine is Miyajima Brewery. It’s a local brewery on the island that makes great craft beer. They have a restaurant and an outside area below that only does beer. They have a lot of great seasonal beers like Yuzu flavor Weizen or Oyster Stour. Yuzu is a citrus fruit similar to a lemon.