at Vegan Healing Cafe in Tokyo
Tempe sausages with brown rice. at Vegan Healing Cafe in Tokyo
Fried soy meat with brown rice. at Vegan Healing Cafe in Tokyo

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Small, simple vegan cafe. Lunch set comes with a main, rice, and soup costs around 900-1000 yen. Menu is also in English. Direction: From the 1A exit of Tokyo Hands, look across the street to the Harley Davidson shop, there is a small street to the left of that, go uphill on that street for 2 small blocks (veer left at the fork), and the restaurant is past the colorful Mexican-style signage of the shop "La Historia de un Amor.". Address in Japanese 日本東京都渋谷区宇田川町6-20. There was another location but that one shut down in fall of 2012. MAY 2013 REPORTED SHUT DOWN/CLOSED.

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19 Reviews

First Review by Baza

Avatar Aya

Aya

Points +627

Vegan
28 May 2013

THIS PLACE IS CLOSED

Vegan Healing Cafe is no longer there - the place is empty and there is a note on the door that it's for sale or for rent. :(

Dear Vegan Healing Cafe, even if I didn't appreciate you while you were there - you will be greatly missed.

Cons: CLOSED

Avatar BlisterBlue

BlisterBlue

Points +1288

Vegan
12 Apr 2013

Nice small restaurant

The restaurant is located in a small area in the Shibuya district. It only has a few tables but you can also eat outside, on the terrace.
There is only 1 cook + 1 waiter but they're really nice and welcoming!
Menu is also in English and staff speaks a bit English as well.
We went there twice during our stay in TOKYO and the food was always delicious.
Excellent value for money as well!

Pros: Location, Staff, Food

Cons: Small

Sesame hot noodle soup at Vegan Healing Cafe in Tokyo

Nuggets, brown rice & salad at Vegan Healing Cafe in Tokyo

Burger, brown rice & salad at Vegan Healing Cafe in Tokyo

Avatar LucidDreams

LucidDreams

Points +257

Vegan
08 Apr 2013

Yummy

After walking around a bit searching we finally found it. But it was worth the effort. Food was delicious. We ate a dish with tasty fried soy meat and rice.
Definitely worth going there again next time I visit Tokyo.

Pros: Tasty food, Healthy

Cons: Not very easy to find

Fried soy meat and brown rice at Vegan Healing Cafe in Tokyo

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sglcklch

Points +3323

Vegan
23 Sep 2012

Cool place, good food

Located just a short walk from Tokyu Hands, it was very convenient and easy to find. Menu was small and simple but the food was solid. My partner and I got the tempeh and the falafel plates for lunch. They were all yummy. We couldn't pass up the chocolate cake so ordered a slice. Oh boy was it scrumptious! The whole meal cost about JPY2500, which I thought was very reasonable for Tokyo.

The atmosphere was pretty laid-back. There were also activist posters, books, leaflets and so on everywhere. One thing I could pick on though was the ventilation. It was a little stuffy inside and, because of all the frying, the whole place had a pervasive odor of fried food. But then again that is just my pet peeve. Definitely check this place out when you happen to be around!

Pros: tasty food, reasonable price, location

Cons: ventilation

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veganmiss

Points +540

Vegan
28 Dec 2011

Cute Cafe

In Shibuya, there is the really awesome Vegan Healing Cafe. This is where I found my Vegan Restaurant Pocketguide book. It was my first experience with texturized soy meat. I had no idea what it was, but I liked it. I even brought some home with me because I didn't even know you could get it in America! Mmm. The owner was so nice too. She could tell just how I excited I was about her restaurant. She had vegan and animal right literature out by the cash register too (mostly PETA leaflets in English and Japanese).

For a complete review, please see my blog here: http://veganmiss.blogspot.com/2010/11/vegan-tokyo.html

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kat.ross

Points +206

Vegan
26 May 2011

Lovely little cafe off Harajuku

This cafe was a great find, after a busy afternoon of wandering Harajuku. The dishes are very simple but wholesome, consisting of falafel burgers, soy meat, tempeh etc, and served with organic brown rice and pickles. In many Japanese vegetarian/vegan/organic restaurants, I've still been quite nervous until the food came out, however this cafe had signs on the front of the cash register saying clearly "no eggs, no butter, no milk", so that was reassuring. Very simple food, but great to see that veganism is alive and well in Harajuku :-)

Pros: Chilled atmosphere, Good value, Filling food

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Third Eye

23 Jan 2012

Hi, just so theres no confusion this particular vegan healing cafe isn't in Harajuku, Im not sure if they have opened a new store in Harajuku, just this one in particular is in downtown Shibuya
:)

Avatar Third Eye

Third Eye

Points +72

Vegan
15 Jan 2011

Great Relaxed Vegan Cafe

First i have to say it is still open for business, we went there a few days ago, and loved it! Its down the end of a great little street lined with hippy stores in Shibuya, easy to find, google map is spot on, which is not always the case. Food was really good, staff were friendly, relaxed feel, and the owners a hardcore vegan (he also runs the Tokyo Vegetarian festival) highly recommended for anyone living in or travelling to tokyo! :)

Pros: Great tasting food, Healthy, Easy to find

Cons: none that i can think of

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Shauna333

Points +676

Vegan
08 Oct 2010

Lovely Cafe

I ate here pretty much every day I was in Tokyo, as it was so easy to find, good value and delicious! The directions given on here are fantastic. The Harley Davidson shop is now a bar with loads of red lights on the outside, you can't miss it. It's very easy to get to from Shibuya Station, and it's a great area to spend time in too.

Had the falafel burger which was not in a bun like I expected, but covered in a sauce and with loads of rice. I felt like the ration of burger to rice was a little out, they gave so much rice everytime! I also had (and loved) the spaghetti with bean and veg sauce. It was Y900, a bargain by Japanese standards, and gave me my Western meal fix. The cakes are delicious too, had the soy whip cake and the tofu chocolate and almond one, which was my favourite with some soy whip to go with it. The service was speedy with one lady there every time I went in, cooking, serving and doing everything herself! It was a quiet but friendly place, with reggae music playing and often business men having meetings. I really recommend it and will return when I'm next in Tokyo.

Pros: Cheap by Japanese standards, Excellent food, Easy to find

Falafel burger at Vegan Healing Cafe in Tokyo

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karenmar

Points +45

Vegetarian
06 May 2010

nice little vegan place

I had lunch here recently. It is in a quiet part of Shibuya. It wasn't too difficult to find using the directions that other reviewers have posted, although one referred to a Harley Davidson shop across the street from Tokyo Hands, but the Harley shop is no longer there.

I had the fried soy meat with rice and a soy hot chocolate. It was all tasty and a good find in a country that seems to add fish to everything. Service was efficient and friendly, and I was the only person seated in the cafe.

Worth a try.

Pros: good food, good service

Cons: small cafe

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sarastoked

Points +45

Vegetarian
27 Apr 2010

After a long day in Tokyo.....

I was glad to find this place. It is a bit tricky to find. Standing outside the A1 exit of Tokyu Hands, look across the street, you will see The Chelsea Hotel. To the left of those buildings is a street. Walk on that street, the road forks, stay to the left. You will pass the Mexican colorful sign and you should see the Cafe. It's not more than a 5 minute walk.

We had lunch around 2pm and no one else was in the cafe. It's a small cafe, but nice and cozy. After a long day or walking around we were glad to relax and warm up here. Menu only had 7 food items on it. My partner had the falafel burg (950 yen) and I had the Com Am Phu (950 yen). I thought both dishes were tasty. They do give a lot of brown rice, which was not an issue for me because it was delicious. Portions were good, not small by any means. For dessert we shared the Soy Whip cake, which was ok.

This is a nice vegan place in Shibuya. I don't know how many other vegan friendly spots are in the area, so we were glad to find this one.

Pros: resonably price, good portions, healthy

Avatar TAS

TAS

Points +37

Vegetarian
06 Dec 2009

DECENT FOOD, CLEAN PLACE

the food here was okay, not bad at all just not super flavorful. The place is a little hard to find. the restaurant seemed very clean and staff was very nice. it is a very small place

Avatar Jan Hicks

Jan Hicks

Points +112

Vegetarian
29 Nov 2009

Friendly service, great food

We visited this cafe on our first visit to Shibuya. It was a little tricky to find, but the food on offer was worth the search. We had the falafel burgers. The member of staff who served us was friendly and helfpul, and the facilities were clean. Well worth searching out if you are vegan or just trying to avoid the ubiquitous fish in Japanese cuisine.

Pros: good food, friendly staff, good value

Cons: hard to find

Avatar InJessT

InJessT

Points +68

Vegan
05 Nov 2009

Small and friendly

Small all vegan restaurant. There was one man serving and cooking the few times I went so can be a bit slow. Food was good though. Nice atmosphere. Had the com am phu and fried soy meat. Also had a delicious chocolate desert. Store sold a few vegan supplies as well, I got some vege meat to take home and it was really good.

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flamekat

Points +397

Vegan
17 Apr 2009

Friendly, laid-back cafe

We visited here back in April 2008. It was simple, but tasty food with brown rice. The chocolate tart was amazing and I had a yummy soymilk drink with black sesame. We also had the soy whip cake which was really good. I'd recommend getting a dallop of the soy whip on the chocolate tart to combine the best of both worlds. It'd be heaven. My husband also had a Palestinian beer that was nice. Who would've thought they brewed German style beers in Ramallah? Pretty cheap and good for a simple lunch. Check it out.

Pros: good organic food, laid-back atmosphere, good value

Cons: service was a bit slow

Avatar backpasher

backpasher

Points +161

Vegetarian
30 Dec 2008

A nice simple meal

I visited with my mum (non veggie) a few months back. We both ordered the veggie burgers. The burgers were tasty and filling though maybe could have had a little more spice!

It's not the easiest place to find though it's very close to downtown Shibuya.

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cookiemonster

Points +1203

Vegan
30 Dec 2007

Good, Simple

This was a nice little cafe. The menu was quite small and westernized but the food was delicious. I also had a hot soy-milk with black sesame which was fabulous.

The portions are normal for Tokyo (smaller) and the prices average (900 yen or so).

Directions: the directions above are good except that they fail to mention what "Tokyo Hands" is. It is a store (I was looking for a monument :) about 5 or 6 blocks away from Shibuya station and is not super easy to find. When you arive at Shibuya station, ask at the information desk where Tokyo Hands is, they should have an area-guide with a map in it and show you where Tokyo Hands is. It is to the north and east of the station near the Parco 1/2/3/4 shopping complexes. It is about 2 blocks in from a major street. From there, follow the directions above.

Pros: yummy, peaceful

Cons: small menu

Avatar feorag

feorag

Points +553

Vegan
11 Sep 2007

Solid, filling food

The name Vegan Healing Cafe very nearly put me off visiting this place. Had I not checked out the menu on the website, I would have expected the kind of worthy but tedious food that gives vegetarianism a bad name, coupled with an overbearing new-agey atmosphere.

Fortunately, it's nothing like the sort of establishment the name suggests. It's really just a tiny, basic vegan cafe with a short menu of filling food, all served with brown rice.

The menu is bilingual, Japanese and English, but the staff are not necessarily so.

I opted for the Com An Phu, a Vietnamese-style stew, and my partner, predictably, went for the fried mock meat on rice. We also both tried the black sesame and toasted soya flour drink, because it was there.

We left well fed.

Pros: good, filling food, Not as bad as the name implies

Cons: Note down a copy of the directions to th

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KelseyApple

Points +89

Vegan
30 Dec 2006

Everything was good but the air!!

I visited this restaurant today and it seems to have been the only vegan restaurant in Tokyo not closed for the whole week due to the holiday. I have to say that the directions on this site were very good. I had mixed juice (organic orange, apple, and grapefruit) 520 yen, Com Am Phu (Vietnamese style fried brown rice) 900 yen, and the soy whip cake 480 yen. Everything was delicious and the portions were very generous. It is a tiny cafe with only 5 two-seater tables but it wasn't a problem today as I was the only one there. The only complaint I have is that the waiter was smoking before I came in and it was the first thing that hit me when I walked in the door. The air never cleared at all over the hour I was there and I ended up getting a headache from it. For a place called Vegan HEALING they should have a little more concern for health!

Pros: good food, good dessert, good value

Cons: air quality

Avatar Baza

Baza

Points +91

Vegan
19 Jul 2006

I'm happy

Great to see 'Vegan' on a sign in Tokyo for the first time. Lots of leaflets and magazines promoting vegan/vegetarian lifestyles.
The curry set was tasty and the service was great.

Pros: Simple/clean interior, Brown rice

Cons: Limited options, Tiny soup(1 big mouthful)

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