katsuura

Sunday was spent exploring the port area of Katsuura. There is a large maguro (tuna) market, which boasts the largest catches of maguro in Japan. You can see rows upon rows of maguro in the early morning. Since we missed this, I got the photo off of their site.

There were many vendors selling freshly caught maguro.







As well as dried ika (squid).

And as you walked around the shopping arcade, it was decorated festively with maguro cut-outs.

Many fishermen were busy fixing their nets or chatting with their friends.







And many boats had returned to the harbor.





We were able to buy a tekkadon for Satoshi's lunch freshly made with part of the morning maguro catch. Tekkadon is sushi rice (vinegared rice) with slices of raw tuna on top.

My lunch was meharizushi, a local favorite. Large leaves of takana (Chinese mustard cabbage) are salted, rinsed, then used to wrap up rice balls.

It was a nice lunch on the train as we made our way back to Osaka.

p.s. I wanted to also show you some of the omiyage (souvenirs) that we picked up for ourselves.

Maguro which is seasoned and cooked with ginger is a nice pupu (appetizer) or great side dish. I put the smaller bits into Satoshi's musubi the other day.

We also got two kinds of ume. One from Godaikan and one from a street vendor near Sandanbeki.

Hope you enjoyed our adventure as much as we did.