Washou Market at Kushiro

Our boat docked at Kushiro today. We planned to go to the Washou Market at Kushiro. We first rode on a shuttle bus to a small tourist market. We cruised around, then we went to Washou Market by taxi.

We wanted to taste some fresh seafood, Kushiro is a famous fishing port, that’s the reason we want to go to the Washou market.

Right after we arrived the Washou market, we saw many booth selling different kind of seafood. Paul didn’t want to buy a whole crab to eat. The owner of the booth next to the crab booth was so whole-hearted and showed us how to order food from his booth. His booth sold different variety of seafood. Therefore, we followed him. His booth was actually selling sashimi don (rice with raw fish). We first went to the rice booth and pick the size of the rice we want. Then we went back to the sashimi booth to pick whatever we like. There were lots of variety in the booth (they even had whale sashimi).

I picked different kind of squid, shrimp, tuna, crab meat, sea urchin and more. I knew I picked too much but I really wanted to taste everything.

The Washou market didn’t disappoint us. Everything was very fresh and yummy. Paul even said he had the best salmon sashimi ever here at the Washou market. Eventually, we convinced Symeon to get a salmon sashimi rice and he loved it too!

After eating, we shopped around. We bought some Japanese snack (chip and dry squid) in a big assorted bag. We also bought some fruit (strawberries and grape). Symeon tried to use up all his money in his SUICA card, so he bought this favourite drink from the vending machine and he was so nice to get daddy some drinks too! We stocked up our fridge because we knew this is our last stop in Japan, we are going to cross the Pacific Ocean and we are going to have 5 continuous sea days (I was wrong. It was actually 6 sea days eventually!).

After we went back to the boat and our cruise was ready to leave Japan. It was raining hard and the Japanese people were so nice, they stood in the rain and waved at our boat. We love Japan and we will come back one day!Lue lisää