You’ll be sure to see many shops where delicious marine products are sold along the Ororon Line. Each shop sells its own unique products which represent the culinary style of each region.
What is Nukanishin?
Raw herring is packed into a mix of rice bran and salt to make a traditionally preserved food native to the Rumoi area. At many of local marine shops you will find nukanishin right next to migakinishin, another herring product ubiquitous in Rumoi. Nukanishin was also known as sushi-nishin, or sushi-herring.
To eat nukanishin, you must first wash off the rice bran. Then you can either grill it as-is, or make it into Sampei soup. Rice balls with nukanishin is a new product which is gaining popularity. Sampei-soup commonly contains potatoes, Japanese radishes, carrots and long onions, but some families like to add kidney beans or tofu. Since the flavor of nukanishin varies depending on sodium levels and preservation time, the flavors produced at each of the marine shops vary widely from product to product.
List of marine shops which sell herring preserved in rice bran.
Honzuke: Heavily Salted, Amakuchi: Lightly Salted
⑩Kita-Rumoi Fishery Cooperatives Shosanbetsu Branch Office (Shosanbetsu)
Iso-no-Kou Nukanishin (Amakuchi)
TEL．0164-67-2252
⑪Shigehara Shoten Co., Ltd. (Haboro)
Amajiozukuri Nukanishin (Amakuchi)
TEL．0164-64-2510
Shibuya Marine Products
Mukashi-no-Aji Honzuke Nukanishin (Honzuke)
Available at Sanchoku-Kobo Kitaru㉘.
⑫Segawa Marine Products (Tomamae)
Tokusen Kuma-Arashi (Honzuke)
Attn: Need to call in advance at 0164-64-2510.
⑬Okada Shoten Co.,Ltd. (Tomamae)
Amakuchi Nukanishin (Amakuchi)
TEL．0164-64-2311
⑭Akiyama Seafood (Obira)
Nukanishin (Amakuchi)
TEL．0164-57-1078
⑮Ihara Marine Products (Rumoi)
Mukashifu-Banya Nukanishin (Honzuke)
TEL．0164-43-0333
⑯Suzuki Marine Products (Rumoi)
Nukanishin Yanshu-zukuri (Amakuchi)
TEL．0164-43-6419
Kato Marine Products
Honzuke-Kuradashi Nukanishin (Honzuke)
Available at Okatte-ya Moe⑤.
Maruyasu Marine Pruducts (Rumoi)
Yacchan-no-Nukanishin Amakuchi (Amakuchi)
Available at A-Coop Lupinus(79).
⑰Hamamoto Store (Rumoi)
Sushinishin Honzuke (Honzuke)
TEL．0164-42-3737
⑱Adachi Sangyo (Rumoi)
Nukanishin (Honzuke)
TEL．0164-42-1135
⑲Funakoshi Marine Products (Rumoi)
Honzuke Nukanishin (Honzuke)
TEL．0164-42-1863
⑳Akashima Marine Products
Nukanishin Amakuchi (Amakuchi)
Attn: Need to call in advance at 0164-53-1236.
㉑Kitanihon Marine Products (Mashike)
Amakuchi-Honzukuri Nukanishin (Amakuchi)
TEL．0164-42-1863
㉒Gurume Foods (Mashike)
Nukanishin Ipponzuke Amakuchi (Amakuchi)
TEL．0120-82-4106
㉓Maruman Marine Products (Mashie)
Nukanishin (Honzuke)
Attn: Need to call in advance at 0164-53-1603
㉔Endo Marine Products
Mashike-meisan Honzuke Nukanishin (Honzuke
TEL．0164-53-2000