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Jul 16, 2013 - 1 min read

Tochigi’s Kurobane Sweetfish

Eat at an old-time riverside fish restaurant

By Tomoko Kamishima

Community writer

Sweetfish in a charcoal fire pot

Riverside restaurant from a distance

Grilled sweetfish

Grilled sweetfish is very popular, and this restaurant is always bustling

Fishermen in front of the riverside restaurant

Sweetfish sashimi

Yana trap in the river

Old-time riverside restaurant

Kurobane, in the northeast region of Tochigi, has been famous for its sweetfish for more than 300 years. Old-time riverside restaurants are set up in summer to serve tasty dishes. Sweetfish are 5-7cm long fish born in the rivers and which then go down to the sea in autumn, spend their time at the mouth of the river in winter, and then go upstream in the early spring. In Kurobane, yana, which is a trap made by wood and bamboo, is used to catch the sweetfish. Grilled fish and sashimi are the most popular dishes, and they are pretty tasty!

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