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title: Kushimoto
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# Kushimoto

Travel journal from Kushimoto, with 16 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Cape Shionomisaki, the southernmost point of Honshu, Kushimoto Marine Park (aquarium and underwater observatory), The coral of Kushimoto's sea, The Turkish Memorial Museum and the Ertugrul.

## Journeys

- [A house in the forest and a southern sea: a day in Kushimoto](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/kushimoto/index.md): Living in nature with forests and tropical seas（2023-06-18）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Katsuo chazuke (bonito over rice with hot broth)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/katsuo-chazuke/index.md): Bonito dressed in sauce is laid over rice and eaten with hot broth poured on top.
- [Flying fish and citrus carpaccio](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/flying-fish-and-citrus-carpaccio/index.md): Besides tuna and bonito, Kushimoto's port lands flying fish and saury.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Cape Shionomisaki, the southernmost point of Honshu](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/cape-shionomisaki-the-southernmost-point/index.md): The southernmost point of Honshu, at 135°46′E, 33°26′N.
- [Kushimoto Marine Park (aquarium and underwater observatory)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kushimoto-marine-park/index.md): An aquarium that recreates the sea of Kushimoto with seawater and creatures from the waters right in front of it.
- [The coral of Kushimoto's sea](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/coral-of-kushimotos-sea/index.md): The coastal waters of Kushimoto hold the world's northernmost large coral communities.
- [The Turkish Memorial Museum and the Ertugrul](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/turkish-memorial-museum-and-the-ertugrul/index.md): A museum beside the memorial to the Turkish frigate on Kashinozaki, Kii-Oshima, displaying a model of the Ertugrul along with relics, photographs and documents.
- [Tanami Theater](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/tanami-theater/index.md): A theater beside JR Tanami Station, built in 1950.
- [Tanami Station](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/tanami-station/index.md): A station on the JR West Kisei Main Line (Kinokuni Line), opened on August 8, 1940.
- [Hashigui-iwa rocks](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/hashigui-iwa-rocks/index.md): About forty rocks of various sizes stand in a line for roughly 850 meters from the Kushimoto shore toward Kii-Oshima.
- [Saury sushi](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/saury-sushi/index.md): A traditional dish of southern Wakayama.
- [Ozaki no Himono dried tuna](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/ozaki-no-himono-dried-tuna/index.md): From a dried-fish shop in Kushimoto with more than seventy years of history, where craftsmen hand-split fish one at a time, both fish caught in the waters around Wakayama and fish chosen from across J…
- [Kushimoto ponkan juice](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kushimoto-ponkan-juice/index.md): Juice made by the Kasaneyama fruit growers' cooperative, formed by ponkan farmers of the Hime and Ikushi districts of Kushimoto.
- [Ryoma 1865](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/ryoma-1865-kushimoto/index.md): A non-alcoholic beer from Nippon Beer, brewed from malt, hops and carbonation only, with no additives and 100% malt.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Marine Park Restaurant Acropora](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/marine-park-restaurant-acropora/index.md): The restaurant next to the aquarium at Kushimoto Marine Park, with the Pacific outside the windows.
- [Cafe Lapin](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/cafe-lapin/index.md): A cafe at the start of the path to Kashinozaki Lighthouse and the Turkish Memorial Museum on Kii-Oshima.
- [Kushimoto Hashiguiiwa Roadside Station](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kushimoto-hashiguiiwa-roadside-station/index.md): A roadside station looking straight out at the Hashigui rocks, a national scenic spot and natural monument.