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Shiogama

Shiogama Day Trip From Sendai: Build Your Own Seafood Bowl

A Shiogama day trip from Sendai: build your own bowl at the fish market, then taste 300 years of shrine-linked sake between Sendai and Matsushima.

Basashi horse sashimi platter with lean and marbled cuts on a gray plate

Kumamoto

What to Eat in Kumamoto: Basashi, Tonkatsu, Burnt-Garlic Ramen and a Local Chardonnay

Horse sashimi, Katsuretsutei tonkatsu open 11:00-21:30 daily, the burnt-garlic ramen that is not Hakata's, and the Kikuka chardonnay north of the city.

Two Sawayaka genkotsu hamburg steaks cut open on a hot iron plate, crosshatched sear marks on the cut faces, with broccoli, c

Shizuoka

Sawayaka Hamburg in Shizuoka: How to Actually Get a Table

Sawayaka runs 35 branches, all in Shizuoka. Gotemba quoted 168 minutes and closed ticketing; Ikeda was 90. How the numbered-ticket system actually works.