Available · checked Oct 11Sea salt · 7 products
Japanese Sea Salt
Five coasts, five methods: wood-fired crystals from Shin-Kamigoto, sun-grown salt from Yasuda in Kochi, wind-dried salt from Chirihama in Noto, hondawara moshio from Kamagari, and spray-crystallized Pacific salt from Miyagi Island, Okinawa.
Japanese Sea Salt catalog
7 sea salt products from 5 producer-operated shops. Confirm current stock and delivery costs in the producer’s shop.
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Coasts with a method
Goto no Umishio is wood-fired seawater salt from Shin-Kamigoto. Tanoya Shiran grows Yasuda seawater in a crystallization house, about three months in summer and six in winter. Noto Chirihama Saltworks dries Chirihama seawater with sun and wind on a driveable beach that Hakui City also describes as eroding.
Amabito no Moshio is Kamagari seaweed salt, presented by Hiroshima City as a revival after roughly a thousand years, tied to salt-making pottery found on the island. Nuchima-su spray-crystallizes Pacific seawater on Miyagi Island, a method the producer traces to Japan’s late-1990s salt liberalization.
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Sea-salt makers by coast
Each maker names the coast and the method that turns seawater into salt, and sells through its own shop.
Shin-Kamigoto, Nagasaki
Goto no Umishio (Kunio Ogawa)
Kunio Ogawa makes wood-fired sea salt in Shin-Kamigoto, Nagasaki, with soft, pyramid-like crystals. Available in a 200g pack.
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View producer profileYasuda, Kochi
Tanoya Shiran
The husband-and-wife founders trained for three years under complete sun-dried salt maker Tanoya Enjiro before establishing Tanoya Shiran in Yasuda, Kochi. They crystallize local seawater slowly with sunlight inside a dedicated house, producing fine and coarse salts that they sell through their own shop.
2 products
View producer profileHakui, Ishikawa
Noto Chirihama Saltworks
Yukinori Matsunaga makes natural sun-dried salt from seawater collected at Chirihama in Hakui. The non-boiling process relies on sunlight and wind, while the wider project supports conservation of the eroding Chirihama coast and Noto's recovery.
2 products
View producer profileKamagari, Kure, Hiroshima
Amabito no Moshio
Kamagari Bussan makes Amabito no Moshio on the Seto Inland Sea coast from seawater and Japanese hondawara seaweed. Its producer-operated shop sells the salt directly, including a 250g edition in an earthenware vessel inspired by ancient salt-making pottery.
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View producer profileMiyagi Island, Uruma, Okinawa
Nuchima-su
Nuchima-su makes sea salt from Pacific seawater drawn at Miyagi Island in Okinawa. Its proprietary spray process turns seawater into a warm mist and crystallizes the salt without conventional pan boiling; the producer sells the finished salt through its official shop.
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