Fugu's first bid Higher than last year Yamaguchi Shimonoseki January 4 9:02
At the market in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, the home of fugu, the taste of winter, the first auction was held on the morning of the 4th, and the highest price was 20,000 yen per kilogram, exceeding the previous year by 7000 yen.
On the morning of the 4th, the first auction of Kotoshi took place in the southern wind night market in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the amount of troughfish handled is the largest in Japan.
At 3:20 am, when the bell that rings the start rings, the auctioneer and the middleman hold a finger in a cylindrical bag and decide the price. 9.3 tons of troughfish were being knocked down one after another.
In the first auction, the highest price is 20,000 yen per kilogram, which is 7,000 yen higher than last year, and it is said that the market officials said that the arrival of natural products in the warm winter was less than last year.
Hiroshi Mihara, president of the wholesale company, said, "I hope that the cold wave will come and the catch will increase. I want to eat more and more pufferfish with sashimi and pots."
The blowfish that was auctioned off for four days will be shipped mainly in the Kanto and Kansai regions.