Sakura Honjin — Restaurant in Hakone

Great vegan/plant based options! (No animal ingredients of any kind used).

I'm a big fan of no-nonsense dining. This place is a fairly typical shokudo but the food was pretty good! There are two vegan curry options, a pasta and two noodle sets. I had the straight up vegetable curry and it was very satisfying, perhaps a little on the sweet side but that's to the taste of the local palette. I had a hunch some of the other dishes could probably be customised but I prefer to order those labelled veg to be less of a bother. Sadly they couldn't veganise the broth-based noodle dishes. Some of those only used animal ingredients in the broth but otherwise...

The hot soba is gooood :D especially when you add the furikake. They also have this wasabi-soya sauce thing which goes very well with salad and tempura. Restaurant was very empty when we came in, with a few people eating here and there.

Recommended for anyone who wants to...

Great food and really quick service. We had the buckwheat Ramen with Mountain vegetable. We also had fish from the lake, which was delicious. We couldn’t eat it fast enough. Tempura ramen was also great. All locals at the restaurant which was a...