Kushiro, located in the east of Hokkaido, is a city of 160,000 people and is the core city of East Hokkaido, surrounded by beautiful national parks and marshlands. The average temperature in summer is a comfortable 21°C, making it the No. 1 city in Hokkaido for nine consecutive years in terms of the number of people who have moved to Kushiro to experience the city. Graphic designer Chiho Onodera was attracted to this city with its unique food culture and pleasant Kushiro people, whose charms are more profound the more one learns about them.

In this issue, Ms. Onodera will tell us about the charms of Kushiro in secret.
What is it about Kushiro that attracts you so much?

If you experience this way of drinking, you will be a "Kushiro connoisseur" too!
The "special way" to drink sake, "Dara-kan"!

Kushiro's Robata (fireplace) has a culture called "Dara-kan". A pot filled with Kushiro's local sake, "fukuji," is placed near the furnace. and they will pour sake from the pot into your teacup. The sake is warmed in the furnace to the point of being "lazily" warmed to human skin, and the taste is so good that you can keep drinking it "lazily. Please come and experience Kushiro's culture at "Dara-kan".

Muryotsuju," "Tanekomori," and "Nuki" - What's that?
Kushiro's soba noodles

Kushiro, where Chikuroen, the head restaurant of Toke, is located, is also a soba (buckwheat noodle) town. One of the most interesting dishes is "Muryouju," "Tanekomi," and "Nuki," which are served mainly at Toke's soba restaurants and are unique to Kushiro and are rarely seen outside of Kushiro. Muryouju" is a dish in which sesame oil is dipped in soba noodles. Then, what kind of soba noodles is "Tane-komi"? Please order it at the restaurant and find out!

You will be overwhelmed by the variety of seafood!
A local supermarket where you can "buy seafood" for a special occasion

Kushiro Port ranked first in the nation for the first time in 32 years in terms of the annual volume of fish landed in 2023. Kushiro Washo Ichiba is the most famous place to buy fresh seafood in this port city, but there are also many other unique local supermarkets where you can buy delicious fish. You will be surprised at the abundance of seafood available only in Kushiro.

Chiho Onodera

Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido. Graphic designer. After graduating from a design technical college in Sapporo, worked as a designer at a production company in Tokyo. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, she made a U-turn to Hokkaido and was once again impressed by the richness of Hokkaido. She quit her job and started her own business, and has continued to create designs that shed light on Hokkaido's local resources and people. Since marrying her husband, who is from Kushiro, she has become obsessed with the charm of Kushiro and enjoys the Kushiro lifestyle every day.

Click here to see Onodera's work and portfolio.

Domingo presents Anojin no tsukeoki chou

Ano hito no tteoko-oki book" is also available in "HAC MAGAZINE," a bimonthly in-flight magazine published by Hokkaido Air System (HAC), the wing of Hokkaido's "wing of the Hokkaido people. It introduces local foods, places, souvenirs, etc., recommended by wonderful people in Hokkaido.

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