Soraya (そらや)

Soraya is a seafood-focused standing bar near Hiroshima’s Hacchobori shopping and entertainment district, just steps from the Jogakuin-mae streetcar stop. Local blog coverage highlights fresh seafood dishes as its specialty, consistent with its Japanese-cuisine standing-bar concept. It opened in August 2012, giving it over a decade of history in the neighborhood, and keeps unusually long, all-day hours with irregular rather than fixed closed days, catering to daytime and early-evening drinkers as much as the late-night crowd. Note: the name is short and generic enough to be shared by unrelated restaurants in other prefectures; this listing is for the Hiroshima, Hacchobori location specifically.