Shiogama Wholesale Fish Market (塩釜水産物仲卸市場) 塩釜水産物仲卸市場
You choose the fish at the stalls, the rice at stall 6, and you put the bowl together yourself.
A wholesale fish market that is also open to people outside the trade: you buy at wholesale prices, on the Shinhama quay north-east of the town centre. It opened in 1965 with 367 stalls; the earthquake and tsunami of March 2011 reduced it to 147, and today 93 are still trading, plus eleven places to eat, including a grill corner that is closed from December to March. Tuna boats from half of Japan dock at Shiogama, from Hokkaidō down to Kyūshū and Okinawa: the port is among the top in the country for fresh tuna landed and ranks first nationally for bigeye tuna, which is sold here under the ‘Sanriku Shiogama higashimono’ brand.
Miyagi
Higashi-Shiogama
