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• The best vegan food in Japan!

It's pretty hard to find vegan food in Japan, so I feel very lucky to have found this amazing restaurant! Tell the owner you're vegan and she will modify the dishes for you. The owner, Yoshiko, is super lovely. She explains what each dish is, and the ingredients are organic and mostly locally sourced. You get a drink, rice, miso soup, and the other dishes change every day. We had an amazing vege 'fish' steak, a dish of tofu and veg wrapped in cabbage, inari stuffed with tofu, a kind of Japanese potato, and dessert was fruit and mochi. Sooo yummy, healthy and filling! The set menu is about 1500 yen I think, very good value for all the food you get. The cafe is very cosy and homey. Afterwards, the owner gave us kitchen scraps to feed the deer and took us in her car to show us the best spots of Nara park and Toda-ji temple. Thank you Yoshiko!! If you're in Japan, you have to come to magical Nara and eat at Kinatei!! It's about 10 minutes walk from JR Nara station.