Due to global warming, squid catches have been declining nationwide. Squid used to be a food for the common people, but now it is considered a luxury item. They cut up the squid while it’s still alive and you eat it while it’s still moving, so it’s a completely cruel story. It’s certainly delicious, and if you can’t finish it, they’ll make tempura out of the rest. This is even more delicious than raw squid. No wonder it’s expensive.
Although Yobuko’s morning market is one of the four major morning markets, there are not many stalls. Perhaps because it is a weekday. On the other hand, there are many police crackdowns on vehicles everywhere you enter the city. Tourists are not squid, so what’s the point of increasing the catch, or rather the number of arrests, in such a place? Drivers, please be careful. Recommended souvenirs include salt harvested from the mineral-rich Genkai Sea, mozuku seaweed that can be frozen in salt water, and dried mackerel, horse mackerel, and barracuda.
By the way, I don’t know who decides the top three or four, but I don’t like that Hachinohe’s Tatehana Wharf Morning Market isn’t included. I think that place is number one.
If you go to Cape Hado, you can see Iki, of course, and if you look closely, you can even see Tsushima. However, when I asked the locals, they said it was impossible to see Busan, South Korea, even in good weather. But it really made me realize how close we were to the border.
