Japan 🌱 Vegan, Gluten Free, Vegetarian Guide
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Japan 🌱 Vegan, Gluten Free, Vegetarian Guide
King Kogi
A digital travel guide containing vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, organic, and gluten-free restaurants in Japan.
Majority of them are located in Tokyo, but I've also included some excellent spots in Kyoto and Fukuoka.
🌟 I’ve organized each restaurant with a convenient category that explains what type of food they serve
🌟 I’ve also included links to their websites/social media.
This guide contains 50 locations with many varieties of food, including:
🍰🍩 desserts
🍜🥢 ramen
🌮🍔 international cuisine
🍛🍱 Japanese food
☕️🥪 cafes and bakeries
💖💰 higher end restaurants for a special meal
📌 This guide also includes a zero-waste Guesthouse that has an earth-friendly plant-based café and bar, that sells by weight, without trash.
💕✨ I've also created a FREE vegan and vegetarian Japanese word and phrase list to help you navigate Japan, so you can just show people your phone, and point.
I’ve also including a handy Gluten Free phrase and help guide, too.
My hope is that even if you don't purchase my guide, these free phrase lists will at least help you! ✨
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Helpful Terms for Vegan and Vegetarian travellers:
The more commonly used terms:
vegetarian: ベジタリアン (beh-ji-tarian)
vegan: ヴィーガン (vui-gan) OR ビーガン (bee-gan)
The more traditional terms:
Buddhist vegan: 完全菜食主義者 (kanzen saishoku shugisha)
vegetarian 菜食主義者 (saishoku shugisha)
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NOTE: Even if you’re vegan, it’s good to start with this phrase, “beh-ji-tarian des” (I’m vegetarian) since it is already rare to be a vegetarian in Japan.
Saying you’re vegan will go over many people's heads, so if they say that they "can’t serve a vegetarian", they definitely can not serve a vegan.
Some helpful phrases you can keep handy on your phone:
I don’t eat meat, seafood, eggs and dairy products
肉とシーフードと卵と乳製品を食べません
(o-niku, shifudo, tamago, to nyūseihin wo tabemasen)
I don’t eat pork
豚肉を食べません
(buta niku wo tabemasen)
I don’t eat chicken
鶏肉を食べません
(tori niku wo tabemasen)
I don’t eat fish stock
魚のだしを食べません (sakana no dashi wo tabemasen)
I don’t eat eggs
卵を食べません
(tamago wo tabemasen)
I don’t eat cheese
チーズを食べません
(chizu wo tabemasen)
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How to express having an allergy:
I am allergic to shrimp
エビのアレルギーがあります
(ebi no arerugi ga arimasu)
For example:
I am allergic to _____________________
_____________________ の アレルギーがあります
_____________________ no arerugi ga arimasu
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GLUTEN FREE TIPS:
Many Japanese dishes contain soy sauce and/or miso, and most of them contain gluten.
I am allergic to wheat
小麦アレルギーです
(Komugi arerugi desu)
麩 質 Fushitsu is the Japanese word for gluten
グ ル テ ン sometimes it is written in Katakana, as “gu-ru-ten”
Things to avoid:
小麦, 小麦 粉
Komugi is wheat, komugiko is wheat flour.
麦 Mugi is barley, usually in mugicha, barley tea. Or rye, called rye-mugi (ライ麦).
醤 油 Shoyu, or soy sauce
味噌 Miso paste
水 飴 Mizuame, or malt syrup, and barley malt syrup are in many sweets
Helpful Phrases:
I cannot eat food that contains gluten. So I cannot eat anything made with wheat, rye or barley. That means that I cannot eat soy sauce which contains wheat, or miso that contains wheat.
私はグルテンを含む食品が食べられません。小麦・大麦・ライ麦が使われているものは全部です。そのため、小麦を原料としている醤油や味噌もいっさい口にできません。
I have a serious disease called celiac disease, so that I cannot eat food that contains gluten. I cannot eat anything made with wheat, rye, or barley. I cannot eat soy sauce which contains wheat or miso that contains wheat.
私は、グルテンの摂取によって発症する「セアリック病」という深刻な病気をもっています。そのため、小麦・大麦・ライ麦が使われている食品は食べられません。小麦を原料としている醤油や味噌もいっさい口にできません。
Does this contain wheat?
これは小麦を使っていますか。
Does this contain barley?
これは大麦を使っていますか。
Does this contain soy sauce?
これは醤油を使っていますか。
When you go to a chicken grilling shop, they can dip it in a sauce which contains soy sauce, but you can ask them to do the salt sprinkled version instead:
Can you do shio-yaki (salt-flavored)?
塩だけで焼いてもらえますか。
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Zero Waste Guesthouse + Plant Based Cafe and Bar (Kyoto)
TU CASA - Plant based & Zero waste -
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Run by a super friendly couple, this cafe and guesthouse has nothing but positive reviews. Serving up Korean vegan and vegetarian food, this zero-waste shop is also a great place to make new friends when travelling.
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Guesthouse tu casa
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The first floor is an ethical complex with an earth-friendly plant-based café and bar that sells by weight without trash, and a guest house where you can experience an ethical lifestyle on the second floor.
Message from the owners:
For a sustainable future for us humans and the planet, I want to aim for an ethical lifestyle. Make ethical choices when shopping, dining, and traveling .
From such a thought, "TUKASA" was born.
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Just Desserts
marbre vegan
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Categories: vegan, dessert
Vegan cake café and coffee shop located near Shinjuku Gyoen Park Shinjuku entrance.
Last order at 6 pm. See social media for irregular closures.
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4.8 (4 Ratings & Reviews)
Apr 2023
"Helpful notes - not just in the overview, for expressing dietary restriction - explaining each location."
Jul 2023
"Traveling vegetarian to Japan is daunting. I am now much less daunted. I really appreciate someone testing all these spots. Thanks Martina."
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
King Kogi
👑🐷 こんにちは~ I'm Martina Sazunic, known as King Kogi on YouTube.
Born in Toronto (Canada) but living in Asia since 2008, exploring South Korea and Japan 🔎
🗺 Use my Digital Travel Guides to confidently explore Japan knowing you've got one of my hand-picked spots nearby.
Plus, you can watch my Tokyo Tours, Osaka Tours, Kyoto Tours, and Yokohama Tours for free on King Kogi YouTube
My guides include a wide range of restaurants:
izakayas 🍶
ramen/udon 🍜
sushi 🍣
coffee ☕️
cafes 🍵
street food 🥟
bistros 🍝
curry 🍛
vegetarian/vegan 🌱
snacks 🍡
dessert 🍧
local craft beer 🍺
secret bars 🥃
As well as popular (and hidden) parks, temples, shrines, museums, shopping spots, interesting finds, and more ⛩
If you're feeling overwhelmed with planning a visit to Japan, the Mega Guides cover 100+ spots and features all the tourist hit list locations, plus off-the-beaten path finds too. It also includes a Japanese language and culture guide.
What's included
Digital Map
Fully interactive, digital map for finding places nearby
50 places
50 hand-picked places with notes from the creator
5 extra guides
Access to additional guides curated by the creator.
4 photos
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9 links
9 links from the creator to go even deeper with more info
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Fukuoka
Tokyo
Kyoto
FOCUSES AND THEMES
Vegan
Gluten-free / Celiac
Vegetarian
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Couples
Foodie
Vegan
Gluten Free
Vegetarian
Cafes and Bakeries
Japanese Food
Higher End Cuisine
Sustainable/Eco
Coffee
Wellness
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