The Least Useful Guide to Fukuoka

There are many ways to get familiar with fish in Fukuoka.

One way is to go to aquarium where you can see and learn about fish in sort of academic, but indirect way.

And angling is also a way to get in (literally) touch with fish, which involves a lot of labour, costs, and time, but you feel the fish physically and directly (actually the fish will be a part of you in the end). Between these two extremes, there should be shopping fish at fishmonger’s or fishers’ markets.

Visiting this building should be somewhere between aquarium and shopping fish.

Located in the vicinity of Fukuoka Central Wholesale Fish Market, Fukuoka Fish Centre Building houses wholesalers’ offices, a small museum, a souvenir shop, and seafood restaurants. You can learn about fish, and have a seafood meal (theoretically straight from the market) at once here.  

On the ground floor there are some seafood restaurants popular among salarymen working at neighbouring companies and local foodies. Today, I had a bowl of rice with a variety of sashimi pieces (JPY600, including a soup and a small sidedish).

I think it’s polite not to evaluate the food I was served….

On the upper floor there is a sort of museum offering a wide range of displays.

I guess if you visit here, you should aim at this museum rather than a seafood feast (go for the basement floor of department stores to get ready-made sushi) as brochures are available in various languages,

and you could see this and that about fish and the market.