[Ibaraki] 5 seafood gourmet choices! Taste the fresh seafood of Oarai and Nakaminato

It is a good fishing area off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture, and is dotted with many fishing ports, including Oarai, Naka Minato, and Hitachi. Fresh seafood is washed up, and you can taste plenty of seafood gourmet with good-looking material. We introduce five shops where you can experience the taste of Ibaraki fish.

I'm wondering what to choose! Original bowl of my own/Akatsu Suisan

It is a restaurant of a fresh fish shop in the "Michi no Eki Hitachi Osakana Center". Here, it is popular if you can choose your own ingredients and rice and make an original bowl of rice. You can choose from about 40 kinds of ingredients.

"Kaisen Hama-yaki", which allows you to freely choose and milled the seafood that stands in the store, is also popular. There are other good value sets. The final reception is at 17 o'clock (~ 16 o'clock in January-March).

■ Akatsu Suisan

Address: 5779-24, Minato-cho, Michi no Eki Hitachi Osakana Center
TEL:0294-54-1008
Opening hours: 9-18 o'clock (1-March to 17 o'clock)
Closed: Wednesday

Enjoy Oarai Iwa-gaki, oyster, with the specialty GanGan-yaki/Kakigoya

A shop located in direct sales center of the seafood and mountain-food "Ikiiki" operated by Iiokaya Fisheries. In addition to Gangan-yaki, which is steamed in a pan, you can choose your favorite ingredients from a range of about 40 kinds of sea products and enjoy it yourself. You can taste the delicacies of outstanding freshness, such as Oarai Iwagaki (May-late September) and Mehikali.

■ Kakigoya

Address: 8253 Isohama-cho, Oarai-machi
TEL:029-266-1197
Hours: 8:30 to 17:00 (Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays are ~ 17:30, depending on the season)
Closed: No Closed

The taste of the home made by the fisherman's wife/Oarai-machi Gyokyou Ka-chan no mise

The Oarai-machi Fishing Co-Operated Store is a popular shop where you can taste the excellent freshness seafood that has just been washed in the Oarai Fishing Port at a reasonable price. The specialty rice bowl made with raw Sirasu is a dish that you will definitely want to taste. There are also plenty of prig-up dishes, and all of them are full volume!

■ Oarai-machi Gyokyou Ka-chan no mise

Address: 8253-20 Isohama-cho, Oarai-machi
TEL:029-267-5760
Opening hours: 10-14
Closed: Monday (for public holidays, the next day * fluctuates)
Parking: There

■ Market experience with fresh fish and seafood restaurants/Naka Minato Osakana Ichiba

As one of Kanto's leading tourist markets, it is a popular spot with customers from outside the prefecture. Facing the Naka Minato Fishing Port, I will introduce you to the shops of the Naka Minato Osakana Ichiba, where there are fresh fish shops and seafood restaurants that handle freshly washed seafood! Be careful as some restaurants go quickly when the ingredient runs out.

■ Naka Minato Osakana Ichiba

Address: 19-8 Minatohoncho, Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki
TEL:029-212-8900
Opening hours: Different by each store
Closed: Different by each store

"Makanai don" using fresh material from Naka Minato/Kaisen-dokoro Kaimon

You can taste fresh fish and shellfish from the Naka Minato fishing port in front of you, and a seafood bowl that is a lively addition to the seafood you order from Hokkaido. Among them, you can enjoy the large-grain Ikura pickled in homemade sauce!

■ Kaisen-dokoro Kaimon

Open: 9:30 to 15:30
Closed: Thursday (open for public holidays)

"Sanpindon" using local fish/Hamagoya

It is a popular store that is inevitable in line, and the specialty is 'Sanpindon', which is packed with the spirit of the shopkeeper, "I want you to eat various kinds of seafood." Sanpin refers to Naka Minato, Oarai, and Hiraiso, with ground fish off the coast of Ibaraki Prefecture condensed into rice bowls.

■ Hamagoya

Opening hours: 10-16:00 (Saturday, Sunday, Holidays from 8:30)
Holidays: Monday, Tuesday

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