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title: Numazu
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# Numazu

Travel journal from Numazu, with 20 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Asa-Ichi, the morning market in the Arcade Meitengai, Awashima Island, Suruga Bay, Numazu Port.

## Journeys

- [Gifts of the sea in a town that looks out on Mt. Fuji](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/numazu-port/index.md): What if you lived in a town with a view of Mt. Fuji?（2023-12-10）
- [Making sushi with a view of Mt. Fuji](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/numazu-sushi/index.md): A peaceful seaside town with Mount Fuji（2022-12-17）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Numazu bowl (Numazu-don)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/numazu-bowl/index.md): Numazu-don is a local specialty born at a Numazu bowl contest in 2000: rice cooked with dried horse mackerel, topped with raw whitebait, raw sakura shrimp and chopped horse mackerel.
- [Sakura shrimp kakiage](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/sakura-shrimp-kakiage/index.md): Every sakura shrimp landed in Japan comes from Suruga Bay.
- [Horse mackerel chazuke](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/horse-mackerel-chazuke/index.md): The half of the chopped horse mackerel I had set aside while making the Numazu bowl spent the night in soy sauce and became the next morning's chazuke.
- [Rice-ball bento in bamboo sheath](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/rice-ball-bento-in-bamboo-sheath/index.md): I wrapped freshly made rice balls in bamboo sheath with rolled omelet and pickled cucumber and carried them down to the water.
- [The Numazu special: nigiri and gunkan sushi](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/numazu-special-nigiri-and-gunkan-sushi/index.md): Numazu Port is where the fish of Suruga Bay come ashore, with a street of restaurants serving seafood fresh off the boats.

## A little of each town’s story

- [Asa-Ichi, the morning market in the Arcade Meitengai](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/asa-ichi-the-morning-market/index.md): A morning market held in the shopping arcade near Numazu Station on the first day of every month except January, from 8 a.m.
- [Numazu himono, dried horse mackerel](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/numazu-himono-dried-horse-mackerel/index.md): Numazu is one of Japan's leading producers of dried fish; fish drying at the Numazu post town even appears in Hiroshige's Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido.
- [Sakura shrimp of Suruga Bay](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/sakura-shrimp-of-suruga-bay/index.md): Sakura shrimp also live in Tokyo Bay and Sagami Bay, but only Shizuoka Prefecture licenses the fishery, so every shrimp landed in Japan comes from Suruga Bay.
- [Nishiura mandarins and the Jutaro variety](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/nishiura-mandarins-and-the-jutaro-variety/index.md): In the Sanura district of Numazu, made up of Nishiura, Uchiura and Shizuura, mandarin growing can be traced back about 450 years, and full-scale cultivation began in the early Meiji era.
- [Awashima Island](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/awashima-island/index.md): A small island in Suruga Bay at the boundary of Uchiura Bay and Enoura Bay.
- [Suruga Bay](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/suruga-bay/index.md): Japan's deepest bay, reaching 2,500 meters at its deepest point.
- [Numazu Port](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/numazu-port/index.md): The port where the bounty of Suruga Bay comes ashore.
- [Numazu's dried horse mackerel](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/numazus-dried-horse-mackerel/index.md): Shizuoka produces more salted and dried horse mackerel than any other prefecture: 9,369 tons in 2021, or 42% of the national total, mainly from Numazu, Atami and Ito.
- [Numazu Deep Sea Pudding](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/numazu-deep-sea-pudding/index.md): A pudding made by Numazu Shinkai Purin Kobo at Numazu Port (97 Senbon-minatocho, Numazu).
- [Uchiura, the setting of an anime](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/uchiura-the-setting-of-an-anime/index.md): "Love Live!

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Fukurokuju (stall at the morning market)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/fukurokuju/index.md): An old-style Edomae sushi restaurant in Wakabacho, Numazu.
- [Uogashi Maruten (Numazu Port)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/uogashi-maruten/index.md): A seafood restaurant founded in 1966 and one of the best known at Numazu Port.
- [Yondaime Yahei (dried-fish shop at Numazu Port)](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/yondaime-yahei/index.md): A dried-fish shop on the street facing the Numazu Fish Market.
- [Yui Port Fishery Cooperative Shop](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/yui-port-fishery-cooperative-shop/index.md): The Yui Port fishery cooperative's own shop, at the fishing port in Yui.
- [Seaside Cafe Umi no Stage](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/seaside-cafe-umi-no-stage/index.md): A cafe on Uchiura Bay with a view of the sea and Mt.