Seafood in Japan

Japan is only 225 km (or 140 miles) wide at its widest part.  That means that no matter where you live in the country, you are no farther than 112.5 km or 70 miles from the coast at any given time.  Fishing is huge business here in Japan - something that Travis and I have gotten to experience and enjoy.

About 20-30 minutes from Misawa there is a huge fish market.  Every single thing that they sell there was caught THAT DAY, and they throw out everything that they don't sell by the end of the day.  (Which both guarantees freshness, and explains part of the garbage problem Japan has).

The fish market had things that I couldn't even identify:

(I'm pretty sure it's an eel.... I think? :D)

things that I don't think I'd ever want to eat:

But such a good price!  3 for about $7.50!  (....it's only a good deal if you know what the hell to do with it once you have it!  lol)

So that is $35 dollars worth of Octopus tentacles.  Yummy???

So apparently if the squid is red it is 15x the price?  If only I read Japanese!

They also sell things at the Fish market that are not even edible - though still fish to be fair.

How would you like to own your very own blow fish?  You could eat the meat and possibly die - (If it isn't butchered properly, Fugu, or blowfish meat can be fatal) - or you could just own a hard dried shell of a deadly, stinky fish!

Travis and I weren't very adventurous, we only bought shrimp/prawns.  However, I have to say they were some of the biggest shrimp I've ever seen, and they cooked up deliciously.  We'll have to go back and try some more seafood soon.