Meat / Fresh Fish Spots in Japan

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Meat / Fresh Fish

Shimizu Fish Market Kashi no Ichi

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Shizuoka Pref. Shizuokashi Shimizu-ku Shimazakichou 149

A fish market in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture known as Shimizu Port's Local Kitchen where wholesalers gather to buy and sell their products. Inside you'll find a wide variety of foodstuff for sale including fresh seafood, marine products, vegetables, handmade tofu, and more. Also check out the Maguro-kan (tuna building) where restaurants serve up skillfully prepared seafood.
Matsushima Fish Market

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Miyagi Pref. Miyagigunmatsushimamachi Matsushima Fugendou 4-10

This market is located in Matsushima Fugendo, Matsushima-machi. It houses various shops selling seasonal live fish, fresh fish, frozen fish and sushi. The restaurant serves sushi, seafood rice bowls, Matsushima oyster burgers and the limited availability sharks’ fin ramen as well as other kinds of ramen and seafood skewers and so on.
Kakujogyorui Kodaira Store

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Tokyo Higashikurumeshi Yanagikubo 2-8-16

This is a popular seafood shop with headquarters in Niigata Prefecture and more than 20 stores across the Kanto Shinetsu region (Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa, Gunma, Chiba, Nagano, Niigata). Its motto is to bring the entire range of seafood from the Sea of Japan, and its proprietary logistics system enables mass delivery and direct sales. It has often been introduced on TV programs as a place to enjoy different types of seafood from the Sea of Japan with a high degree of freshness despite its Tokyo location. On the fourth Wednesday every month (with the exception of December) the restaurant holds Kakujo Day when all items are 10% off (this may change on holidays). They also do a performance on an irregular schedule during which fresh tuna is cut up and sold.
Makurazaki Fish Center

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Kagoshima Pref. Makurazakishi Matsunochou 33-1

Makurazaki City is the top producer in Japan of deep ocean skipjack tuna and katsuobushi (dried skipjack tuna flakes), and this popular facility serves the freshest skipjack tuna. Located along Makurazaki Fishing Port, visitors can also buy fresh seafood direct from the adjoining market. The facility houses two restaurants. Sakanaya Shokudo on the first floor serves reasonably priced set meals. Buen on the second floor overlooks the port and offers seared skipjack and skipjack tuna head stewed in miso meals. The facility's warayaki event (reservation required), which teaches you how to properly grill skipjack tuna over straw the old fashioned way, and even which lets you try flaking katsuobushi are popular.
Kakujo Gyorui Kawaguchi Store

4.5

5 Reviews

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Saitama Pref. Kawaguchishi Yananechou 17-5

The Kawaguchi branch of the Niigata Prefecture, Teradomari City-based Kakujo Gyorui fresh fish chain has set their sights on becoming Japan’s best fresh fish specialty store. It is famous for its preeminently fresh sashimi and sushi. It holds a boatload of fun events for the consumers, including a monthly raw tuna dissection sale, and 10% off sales on every fourth Wednesday of each month, excluding December.

いつの頃だろうか、角上を知ったのは。美味しい魚が食べたくなったときは、車を飛ばして数分で到着。駐車場は、お店の前と道路をはさんだ向かい側、あと、橋の近くにもあります。店内に入ると新鮮な魚介類がたくさんあります。とにかく刺身、寿司は抜群に旨い。ここの寿司は何でこんなに旨いんだろうか。ここの寿司を食べちゃうと、普通のスーパーで買った寿司は食べる気にならないんですよね。本日は3000円の...
Sendai Markets Mori no Ichiba

3.5

32 Reviews

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Miyagi Pref. Sendaishi Wakabayashi-ku Oroshimachi 5-2-6

This is a commercial facility in Wakabayashi Ward, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. It has been opened as a “food kitchen” near Sendai City Central Wholesale Market. The inside of the store is bright and has a sophisticated atmosphere like a European market. There are 31 selective stores providing goods such as fresh fish from Sanriku and Matsushima, processed fish products, local agricultural produce, and other product goods and the center is crowded with many shoppers every day. Seasonal seafood direct from the production area is especially recommended. The center is perfect for lunch offering a seafood-on-rice bowl (kaisendon) with a large amount of fresh seafood and a restaurant where visitors can taste authentic Sendai beef tongue.

魚介だけでなく、野菜やパンもある市場です。この市場内で食べた海鮮丼は、ご飯量無料で選べ、しかも安く、旨かったです。
Kakujoe Gyorui Tokorozawa Store

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Saitama Pref. Tokorozawashi Kitanaka 2-272-1

The Tokorozawa store of Kakujoe Gyorui based in Teradomari, Niigata Prefecture, an area known as the “Ameyoko of fish”, this store has sashimi assortments and sushi of superb freshness as well as side dishes. The store bustles with even more activity during demonstration sales where raw tuna is filleted and on “Kakujoe Day”, the fourth Wednesday of every month except December.
Wadakin

4.0

171 Reviews

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Mie Matsusaka-shi Nakamachi 1878

This meat cuisine restaurant, standing on Prefectural Route 60, is located in Naka-machi, Matsusaka City. The longstanding establishment opened in the Meiji period and serves sukiyaki, steaks, and amiyaki grilled foods using Matsusaka beef raised on company-owned farms. The restaurant's sukiyaki, sauteed on an iron skillet over a charcoal fire, has been a signature dish since it first opened its doors, and those who order it can savor the delicious flavor and aroma of Matsusaka beef laced with smooth, high quality fat.

Booked on their web site and got a confirmation within 1 hour. It is convenient for foreigners. Their staff speak little English. Yet the quality of steaks does the talking. Sukiyaki is also...
Iwafune Minato Fresh Fish Center

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Niigata Murakami-shi Senami Onsen 3-6-38
Kichijouji Satou

4.0

166 Reviews

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Tokyo Musashino-shi Kichijoji Honcho 1-1-8

"This Japanese black beef restaurant has appeared in various media outlets as the store with the longest lines in Kichijoji. The shop is located facing the street, almost at the center of the town's famous Sun Road shopping district, and offers high-quality, domestically produced black wagyu beef. In addition to selling by weight for things like sukiyaki, shabu-shabu and rib roasts, they are also known for their freshly fried ""original minced cutlets."" From the moment you bite into it, this dish is bursting with piping hot, juicy meat and a crispy-crunchy texture, and since it's cooked through to the center on low heat, waiting five minutes or so before digging in is a must. Depending on the timing, there may be wait times of several hours."

Satou holds a fond place amongst my tastebuds, as its the place where I had my first ever menchi katsu, and it took me a few years to get back there to have a taste of it again. Every morning when...
Saikazaki Fishing Port Direct Sales Store (Union of Kansai Governments Direct Sales Market)

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Wakayama Wakayama-shi Saikazaki 1162 Saikazaki Fishery Cooperative

This fishermen's market is operated by Saikazaki Fishing Port. Here you can purchase seafood delivered straight from the boats which can be seen dotting Saikazaki Fishing Port. The market is filled with shipping crates and styrofoam boxes, and customers speak directly to one of the fisherman working inside, saying what fish they want and negotiating the price. Operating hours vary by season; between October and mid-May, fresh green tiger prawn, sea bream, red tonguesole, and other fresh seafood is delivered to the market from 3 p.m. onward. Seafood delivers occur from 8:30 p.m. onward from mid-May until Sports Day in October, and during this time the market is filled with daggertooth pike conger and southern rough shrimp. Note that the market is closed on days with poor weather.
Matsunoya

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Ibaraki Kitaibaraki-shi Sekinamicho Niida 355
Ikufuudo Butcher's Shop

4.0

42 Reviews

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Gunma Pref. Tonegunminakamimachi Oana 814-1

You’ll find this butcher’s shop and restaurant along National Route 291 in Oana, Minakami Town. There’s homemade ham, sausage, and Gunma-produced Masuda Japanese beef for sale, among other products. The restaurant offers roast pork, katsu rice bowls with thick roast pork slices, and other popular options.

A little expensive but was great! Outdoor seating and a perfect after meal after Canyoning! Great food, a lot of pork but beef was available too, there was also a wine and liquor store attached to...
Kakujoe Gyorui Teradomari Main Shop

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Nigata Pref. Nagaokashi Teradomarishimoaramachi 9772-27

This seafood vendor is based in a fish market street nicknamed Sakana no Ameyoko Shotengai in Teradomari, Nagaoka City. The vendor, one of the largest in the market, is frequently covered in the media, making it a popular destination for locals and tourists alike. The shop mostly deals in freshly-caught seafood. Its shop windows are packed with salmon fillets, tuna, bonito, sea bream, mackerel, crab, squid, and shrimp. It also carries shellfish like turban shell and abalone (in summer) and oysters (in fall and winter). Their fresh bluefin tuna sushi is especially good. The shop also conducts tuna cutting demonstrations where customers can buy the freshly-cut tuna.
Sakana no Eki Ikuji

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Toyama Pref. Kurobeshi Ikuji Nakaku 265

This market is a 12-minute drive from Hokuriku Expressway's Kurobe Interchange. The market is comprised of two buildings; the Toretate-kan, which offers fresh fish and processed seafood, and the Dekitate-kan, which has restaurants and a take-out corner. At Chargrilling Restaurant Kokaito, diners can choose any of the fresh-caught seafood from Kurobe fishing port or Ikuji salted fish (a local delicacy made by the Ladies' Club of the JF Kurobe fishing cooperative) on offer and chargrill it themselves. We also recommend the local craft brew, Shozu Monogatari.
Marutake Omi Nishikawa

4.0

1 Reviews

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Shiga Pref. Oumihachimanshi Suwaichou Naka 17

An Omi beef specialty shop and restaurant located in Naka Suwai-cho, Omihachiman City. Everything from raising the cattle at the establishment’s own farm to the processing and sale of the meat is handled directly by the establishment. The establishment’s butcher shop sells Omi beef cuts and foods like Omi beef misozuke and side dishes. The adjoining restaurant serves sukiyaki, shabushabu, teppanyaki, steaks, beef stew, Hamburg steaks, and Omi beef bento box lunches.

近江牛を味わえるレストランも併設された精肉店。レストランは、休日の食事時は満席で、外で皆さん並んでいました精肉店では、お肉のほかにコロッケやメンチカツなども売っていて、店舗横のベンチに座って頂けます。こちらは並んでいません。コロッケは普通のタイプと甘口のすき焼きコロッケがありました。どちらも揚げたて、衣がサクサクで美味しかったです。
Minato Matsuri

3.0

10 Reviews

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Wakayama Pref. Higashimurogunkushimotochou Kushimoto 1557-20

This municipal marine facility is near Kushimoto Ohashi Bridge, which services Kii Oshima Island. The fishing town of Kushimoto Town is greatly affected by the Kuroshio Current, and Minato Matsuri collaborates on the distribution and development of various marine products with the Fisheries Experiment Station of the adjacent Wakayama Research Center of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. The souvenir corner on the first floor sells fresh, high-grade seafood such as Kushimoto brand Shorasan bonito, spiny lobster, and abalone. Their second-floor eatery offers rice bowls made from locally harvested seafood, and their highly popular Sanshokudon Meal Set features young shirasu sardines, tobiko flying fish roe, and raw tuna.

道の駅に立ち寄って見ました。1階はお土産屋さん、2階はレストランになっていました。お昼時でしたので、レストランは、お客さんで一杯でしたので、ここでの食事は諦めました。
Yokosuka Matsuzakaya

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Kanagawa Yokosuka-shi Uwamachi 1-44

This longstanding meat shop was established in 1910 and is located a five-minute walk from the south exit of Keikyu Yokosuka-chuo Station. The shop's Japanese black beef corned beef is a painstakingly crafted gem made by slow-stewing A5 Japanese black beef in a vegetable broth. Also popular are the shop's smoked bacon, made using only the tastiest parts; and natural intestine sausages stuffed with high quality pork meat from pigs raised on grain amidst the abundant natural beauty of the Miura Peninsula.
Kamakura Ham Tomioka Shokai Komachi Main Store

4.0

8 Reviews

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Kanagawa Pref. Kamakurashi Komachi 2-2-19 Sagamiya Building 1F

This is a long-established shop for Kamakura ham that has been in business for over 100 years since the Meiji period. The Kamakura ham brand got started after receiving its secret ham production method from businessman William Curtis, who came to Japan soon after Japan’s ports were opened to international trade. Their signature Nunomaki Ham product is carefully cut pork which is prepared through a special method involving being thoroughly smoked with cherry wood chips. This high quality ham is sold wholesale to the finest hotels.

Starting in 1874 in a Hotel, William Curtis began introducing Western-style meats to the Japanese. In 1900, the Kamakura Ham Tomioka Shokai was born. These products are well-known all over Japan...
Kamakurahamu Tomioka firm Kamakura Tokyu store

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Kanagawa Pref. Kamakurashi Komachi 1-2-11 Tokyu Store 1F