Before you do anything else on Hatsushima, treat yourself to an amazing lunch at this fisherman-run restaurant . We recently took you along with us on our trip to Hatsushima , a beautiful subtropical island that, amazingly, you can be standing on in less than two hours after leaving downtown Tokyo . It looks like a lot of you are interested in the island, which is accessed by a ferry that leaves from the coastal city of Atami , in Shizuoka Prefecture .
And yet, there’s one more thing we have to talk about from our trip to Hatsushima: the sashimi . We briefly touched on this in our initial report. Only about 200 people live on Hatsushima.
A lot of them are fishermen, and some of those fishermen manage a row of restaurants that stands by the sea. Fresh sushi and sashimi is never something you want to pass up in Japan, and so there was no way we were hopping on the boat home without trying one of these eateries. However, fisherman start their days early, and so they tend to close up shop early too .
When we arrived at around 1 p.m., some of the restaurants had already stopped serving for the day, and others were full with diners who’d made reservations.
But we were in luck because there was one restaurant, called Sumi, that was still open and could seat us right away . ▼ すみ = Sumi You might mistakenly assume that that meant Sumi has a less-than-attractive reputation, but that’s not the case at all. Not only did their menu photos look enticing, the board also mentione.