CoCo Ichiban-ya Naka-ku Otemachi — Restaurant in Hiroshima

Always tasty 😋 friendly + offers vegan curry options, allergy-free, multilingual me us with lots of photos that actually looks like the food. Choose your curry, how much rice + how spicy you want it. Completely non-smoking now which makes it great for families too.

This location is convenient to BookOff reuse shop as well as city center shopping. Not far from peace park. Clean Western toilets at the back.

Tasty sweet pickles for great curry condiment + cute there are only reusable chopsticks + spoons (no forks). They also have low-carb curry options made with califlower rice. The staff are famous for being flexible with orders (you can get a curry with only potatoes if you'd like...

Really good curry and service, some of the staff speak basic English and there is an English menu you can point to if you can’t speak basic Japanese or if there aren’t any English speaking staff rostered on.

You’re able to customise you’re curry a lot. I mixed pork tonkatsu with chicken karaage and made the curry extra spicy.

Caution though, don’t go above level 3-4, staff will warn you about that. The currys here can get really spicy.

Staff also give you free iced water when you first arrive.

They also gave a bottle of this sweet and slightly sour sauce you can add to the curry for a...

Cheap and good eats. A lot of folks laugh when you say you want to goto Coco Ichibanya for a Japanese curry but without fail they are pleasantly surprised after their visit. I first ate at Coco #1 in 1995. I ate here all the time as there was one near my work and it was open late in the evening. I stopped eating here in about 1998 after I went vegetarian because the curries are beef and pork based. However, this location is testing a vegan curry right now. It is great! Very excited that I can come back now to Coco #1! Note that this store is the only one in Hiroshima currently with the veg...