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title: Onomichi
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# Onomichi

Travel journal from Onomichi, with 16 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Cinema Onomichi, The former Yamato-yu bathhouse, Onomichi Hondori Shopping Street, Neko no Hosomichi (the Cat Alley).

## Journeys

- [Onomichi ramen and homemade okonomiyaki](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/onomichi-2/index.md): Living in an Old House in Onomichi, Part 2（2023-11-12）
- [Through the Cat Alley to our house in Onomichi](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/onomichi-1/index.md): Living in an Old House in Onomichi, Part 1（2023-11-03）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Onomichi-yaki](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/onomichi-yaki/index.md): Onomichi's okonomiyaki is called Onomichi-yaki.
- [Octopus rice (tako-meshi)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/octopus-rice/index.md): A regional dish of Hiroshima handed down in Mihara, Onomichi and Fukuyama.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Cinema Onomichi](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/cinema-onomichi/index.md): The only cinema in Onomichi, the movie town known for Ozu's Tokyo Story and Obayashi's Onomichi trilogy.
- [The former Yamato-yu bathhouse](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/former-yamato-yu-bathhouse/index.md): A former public bathhouse in the Onomichi Hondori arcade, with a concrete facade and an arched entrance.
- [Onomichi Hondori Shopping Street](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/onomichi-hondori-shopping-street/index.md): An arcade about 1.6 kilometers long, running east to west between the sea and the hills.
- [Setoda lemons](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/setoda-lemons/index.md): Hiroshima Prefecture grows more lemons than any other in Japan: 4,861 tons in 2020, or 56% of the national crop.
- [Onomichi ramen](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/onomichi-ramen/index.md): A soy sauce broth combined with stock from Setouchi small fish such as dried sardines, topped with pork back fat.
- [Yakuza 6 and its Onomichi setting](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/yakuza-6-and-its-onomichi-setting/index.md): The poster on the ramen shop wall was for Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, released in December 2016.
- [Neko no Hosomichi (the Cat Alley)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/neko-no-hosomichi/index.md): A narrow lane of about 200 meters starting beside the three-story pagoda of Tennei-ji.
- [Kaiun-to, the three-story pagoda of Tennei-ji](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kaiun-to-the-three-story-pagoda/index.md): A Soto Zen temple said to have been founded in 1367 by Ashikaga Yoshiakira.
- [Senkoji Ropeway](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/senkoji-ropeway/index.md): A ropeway linking the town center with Senkoji Park in three minutes.
- [The Onomichi Waterway and a town of slopes, literature and film](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/onomichi-waterway-and-a-town/index.md): The Onomichi Waterway is the narrow strait between Onomichi proper and the island of Mukaishima, and it has made Onomichi one of the Seto Inland Sea's leading port towns since medieval times.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Onomichi Ramen Maruboshi](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/onomichi-ramen-maruboshi/index.md): An Onomichi ramen shop in Tsuchido, a walk east along the waterfront from Onomichi Station.
- [Keima Kamaboko Shoten](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/keima-kamaboko-shoten/index.md): A fish-cake shop in the Onomichi Hondori arcade, founded in 1913.
- [HIBI COFFEE](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hibi-coffee/index.md): A small coffee stand that stood beside the railway tracks partway up the hill.
- [Nekonote Pan Kojo](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/nekonote-pan-kojo/index.md): A tiny bakery in a renovated old house, tucked into a maze of alleys where cars cannot enter.