Tottori
鳥取県 Scout VerifiedJapan's least populated prefecture delivers raw Sea of Japan bounty — mosa-ebi, shiro-ika, and nodoguro straight from Karo Port to intimate counters.
Tottori faces the Sea of Japan with some of the country’s richest fishing grounds. Karo Port and Sakai-Minato land prolific catches of mosa-ebi (a sweet local shrimp), shiro-ika (white squid), hatahata, nodoguro, and winter crab. The sushi scene here skews affordable rather than luxurious — omakase above 20,000 yen is virtually nonexistent — but what these counters lack in price-point polish they make up for in sheer proximity to the source. This is a place to experience ji-no-ri in its purest, most unadorned form.