Whenever I go to my local fish shop, I often see delicious fish, especially freshly boiled whitebait (kamaage shirasu), caught at Fukude Fishing Port. I’ve been wanting to visit it for a while now. The distance seemed perfect for a bike ride, so I decided to go right away.
Fukude Fishing Port (pronounced ‘Fukude’), located at the mouth of the Ota River flowing through Fukuroi City, features charmingly designed buildings as you can see in the photos. I arrived a little after 3 PM that day, so the port was quiet. As I was wondering if there was anything else around, I noticed Nagisa no Koryukan nearby, so I checked it out. Besides freshly caught fish and vegetables, it also has dining facilities where you can enjoy them.
In the fresh fish corner, the freshly caught raw whitebait (nama shirasu) looked delicious, and they even had “Mochi Katsuo” (sticky bonito)! Mochi Katsuo is a unique type of bonito with a sticky, chewy texture due to its exceptional freshness. It’s a super delicious local specialty that rarely makes it outside the area, but since it would be impossible to bring it home while maintaining its freshness, I sadly had to give up on it.
This is a cutlassfish (tachiuo), with a sheen like a sword. When I was a kid, my grandma often took me to the beach in Mochimune, Shizuoka, and bought me delicious bonito and raw whitebait to eat. But the appearance of this cutlassfish really intrigued me as a child, and I begged her to let me try it. She cooked it for me, and while it was tasty, I remember it being full of bones and quite a hassle to eat – it’s a “memory fish” I recall very vividly for some reason (lol).
I had been cycling all day without lunch, so I was starving, but all the restaurants at the fishing port were already closed. However, I asked just in case, and they said they could make a raw whitebait rice bowl (nama shirasu don) for me, which I gratefully ordered. Eating a bowl made with fresh, morning-caught raw whitebait on a terrace overlooking the port? You know it’s going to be amazing! Plus, in the deli section, they were selling “memory” cutlassfish as bone crackers, so I bought some of those too. Even those bones from my slightly troublesome childhood memory had been transformed into super crispy and incredibly delicious crackers!
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