Bakery Andersen

Bakery Andersen is a Hiroshima institution tracing its origins to 1967, when a Danish-inspired bakery was established on the Hondori covered shopping arcade in Naka Ward. Its founding brought Scandinavian baking traditions to postwar Hiroshima at a time when European-style bread was a genuine novelty, and the bakery's influence on the city's bread culture has persisted across generations. The multi-level Hondori flagship incorporates a ground-floor retail bakery selling individual pastries and loaves alongside a deli counter offering open-face sandwiches, with café seating on an upper floor suited to a sit-down breakfast or morning coffee. Signature items include buttery Danish pastries in multiple fruit and custard variants, golden croissants, and a Hiroshima lemon bread that uses the prefecture's distinctive citrus in both the dough and the glaze. The 7:30 AM opening makes Andersen one of the very few options in central Hiroshima for a proper sit-down breakfast before the main tourist sites open; the upstairs café serves sandwiches on house-baked bread, soups, seasonal drinks, and fresh-ground coffee throughout the day. A full pastry-and-coffee breakfast runs ¥700–¥1,000. The Hondori arcade location means the bakery sees continuous foot traffic from mid-morning onward, with the quietest café seating available in the lull between 10 AM and noon. The deli section also carries gift-boxed pastry assortments popular as Hiroshima edible souvenirs — lighter and more locally specific than the mass-produced maple-leaf manjū found at station kiosks nearby. The upper-floor café is separated from the retail floor below and provides a calmer atmosphere for visitors who want to sit and eat rather than take away, making it useful for travellers starting an early Hiroshima sightseeing day.