Japan 🌱 Vegan, Gluten Free, Vegetarian Guide
50 Places • 86 Saves • ago
$15.00
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! ✨
☆︶︶︶︶☆ ︶︶︶︶☆
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)
☆︶︶︶︶☆ ︶︶︶︶☆
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)
☆︶︶︶︶☆ ︶︶︶︶☆
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
☆︶︶︶︶☆ ︶︶︶︶☆
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。
DESTINATION(S) COVERED
Fukuoka
Tokyo
Kyoto
FOCUSES AND THEMES
Vegan
Gluten-free / Celiac
Vegetarian
Female Solo
Couples
Foodie
Vegan
Gluten Free
Vegetarian
Cafes and Bakeries
Japanese Food
Higher End Cuisine
Sustainable/Eco
Coffee
Wellness
FORMAT
Guide
Guides typically include detailed information and how-to’s about a destination as well as suggested places to try.
Recommended for travelers who are looking for recommendations on where to stay, what to eat, and how to make the most out of their destination experience.
What's included
Digital Map
Fully interactive, digital map for finding places nearby
50 places
50 hand-picked places with notes from the creator
4 photos
Beautiful, hi-res photos from the creator
7 links
7 links from the creator to go even deeper with more info
CURATED BY
👑🐷 こんにちは~ I'm Martina Sazunic, known as King Kogi on YouTube.
From Toronto (Canada) I've been living in Asia since 2008, and for last 7 years, I've been living and exploring Japan 🔎 I love finding off-the-beaten path locations and local food finds.
🗺 You can use my Digital Travel Guides to confidently explore Japan knowing you've got one of my hand-picked spots nearby.
Get a taste for the kind of places I'll include in my digital guides by watching my Tokyo Tours, Osaka Tours, Yokohama Tours for free on King Kogi YouTube.
My guides always 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 Tokyo Mega Guide covers over 100+ spots and features all the tourist hit list locations and my off-the-beaten path finds too. It also includes a Japanese language and culture guide!
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Japan 🌱 Vegan, Gluten Free, Vegetarian Guide
50 Places • 86 Saves • ago
$15.00
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! ✨
☆︶︶︶︶☆ ︶︶︶︶☆
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)
☆︶︶︶︶☆ ︶︶︶︶☆
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)
☆︶︶︶︶☆ ︶︶︶︶☆
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
☆︶︶︶︶☆ ︶︶︶︶☆
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。
DESTINATION(S) COVERED
Fukuoka
Tokyo
Kyoto
FOCUSES AND THEMES
Vegan
Gluten-free / Celiac
Vegetarian
Female Solo
Couples
Foodie
Vegan
Gluten Free
Vegetarian
Cafes and Bakeries
Japanese Food
Higher End Cuisine
Sustainable/Eco
Coffee
Wellness
FORMAT
Guide
Guides typically include detailed information and how-to’s about a destination as well as suggested places to try.
Recommended for travelers who are looking for recommendations on where to stay, what to eat, and how to make the most out of their destination experience.
What's included
Digital Map
Fully interactive, digital map for finding places nearby
50 places
50 hand-picked places with notes from the creator
4 photos
Beautiful, hi-res photos from the creator
7 links
7 links from the creator to go even deeper with more info
CURATED BY
👑🐷 こんにちは~ I'm Martina Sazunic, known as King Kogi on YouTube.
From Toronto (Canada) I've been living in Asia since 2008, and for last 7 years, I've been living and exploring Japan 🔎 I love finding off-the-beaten path locations and local food finds.
🗺 You can use my Digital Travel Guides to confidently explore Japan knowing you've got one of my hand-picked spots nearby.
Get a taste for the kind of places I'll include in my digital guides by watching my Tokyo Tours, Osaka Tours, Yokohama Tours for free on King Kogi YouTube.
My guides always 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 Tokyo Mega Guide covers over 100+ spots and features all the tourist hit list locations and my off-the-beaten path finds too. It also includes a Japanese language and culture guide!
Where great trips happen, effortlessly.
Start taking great trips with less stress in three easy steps.

Search for a destination.
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Plan it. Book it and go.
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Where great trips happen, effortlessly.
Start taking great trips with less stress in three easy steps.

Search for a destination.
Browse Thatch’s marketplace of unique trip plans designed by verified travel creators with their insider tips and recommendations.

Save ideas you like.
Use these plans as-is, customize them by adding places to your own plan, or build your own from scratch using our easy to use editor.

Plan it. Book it and go.
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