Tokyo introduction

Playground equipment in the park.
This is an octopus park playset.
There are multiple slides, stairs and walkways.
It is a playset that multiple children can play together.

Octopus Park is located above Tatsumi Station on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line.
There are forests and parks 10 minutes by subway from Ginza.

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The mackerel that has been salted and dried for one day is called "Saba-Shio".
The salt absorbs the water from the mackerel and reduces the water from the body.
By drying, the water content is further reduced and the taste is concentrated.

Bake this mackerel on a gas stove.

It's delicious.(^-^)

In Japan, mackerel is popular as a taste of the common people.

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This is the Bonito Center in Harumi, Tokyo.
It is a building where wholesalers of dried bonito are gathered.
It is a light brown low building in the middle of the photo.

Surrounded by skyscrapers, it retains the atmosphere of Tokyo a little old.

Tokyo Dried Bonito Center

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A big "Kurosoi" was on sale, so I boiled it and ate it.

Cut "Kurosoi" and put it in a pan.
The pot is a sukiyaki pot, which is a flat, thin pot.
Also put the squid stuffed with "Mochi" rice in the pot.

Add soy sauce, mirin and sake and simmer.

[Wikipedia]

クロソイ - Kurosoi (Japanese)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%BD%E3%82%A4

Sebastes schlegelii (English)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastes_schlegelii

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So I can not go out in the pandemic of coronavirus, in mail order, I bought fresh fish.

The site used is the following OWL
https://owl-food.com/

I bought a fish from a fisherman in Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture.
It contained Tai, Karei, Houbou, and Kurodai.

Although not shown in the photo, there was also a squid underneath.

I made all of them sashimi and ate them deliciously.

Imabari City, Ehime Prefecture.
Imabari City is the following place.

[Wikipedia]

タイ - Tai (Japanese)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AF%9B

Red seabream (English)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_seabream

ホウボウ - Houbou (Japanese)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%A6%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A6

Spiny red gurnard (English)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiny_red_gurnard

カレイ - Karei (Japanese)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4

Pleuronectidae (English)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuronectidae

クロダイ - Kurodai (Japanese)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4

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