2009/10/02

Shiogama, Miyagi

The season starts from May ”Naka-oroshi Ichiba” in Shiogama, has the largest catch of raw tuna in Japan
Naka-oroshi Ichiba

While it has been reducing, Shiogama, Miyagi pref. still has the largest volume of raw tuna caught each season. In Shiogawa fishing harbor, there is Naka-oroshi Ichiba”, the market that is popular among local people. As well [...]

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2009/10/02

One of three most scenic spots in Japan – Matsushima, Miyagi

“Kakigoya (Oyster cabin), winter feature

Basho Matsuo (in early Edo period), a haiku poet who created a lot of great haiku poems, wrote a travelogues called “Okuno Hsomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), a diary of his extensive travels through Tohoku and Hokuriku to Ogaki. In the travelogue, there is a famous poem “Matsushima”. [...]

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