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Gourmet<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n
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The food of Shimonoseki<\/p>\n\n

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Fugu (blowfish)<\/h2>\n

Shimonoseki boasts the largest blowfish handling in Japan. Throughout the year, you can enjoy a variety of fugu dishes in the city’s restaurants, including sashimi, hotpot, kara’age, sushi, soups, rice porridge, rice topped with fugu, and hot sake flavored with fugu fins.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\"fugu <\/picture><\/div>\n

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Sea urchin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anglerfish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Squid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Kawara soba<\/h2>\n

This unique dish from Shimonoseki can be enjoyed mainly in the Kawatana Onsen district. Soba noodles made with matcha aromatically prepared on a searing hot roof tile are enjoyed with beef, egg ribbons and green onions dipped in steaming hot dashi.<\/p>\n\n

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Karato Market<\/h2>\n

Located along the Kanmon Strait, the fish market attracts ordinary citizens as well as those in the food service industry. It is very popular on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays when food stalls offering sushi, seafood bowls and deep fried dishes prepared with fresh seafood open for business.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\"Karato <\/picture><\/div>\n

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Tonchan Nabe<\/h2>\n

Shimonoseki’s regional dish is a hotpot of offal and vegetables cooked in a sauce made of authentic Korean spices.<\/p>\n\n

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Soft serve ice cream<\/h2>\n

You can enjoy soft serve ice cream in a variety of flavors, including pear, strawberry, wakame seaweed, tomato, and sea urchin at tourist facilities and roadside stations in the city.<\/p>\n\n

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A treasure-trove of seafood<\/h2>\n

Surrounded by the sea on three sides, Shimonoseki is a city of marine products blessed with an abundant fishing ground and fishing port.<\/p>\n\n

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