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It took me 1.5 hours to go back and forth on the hill road. No water, no foods. I literally underestimated the hiking road.
I was fatigued to keep walking, so I decided to drop by a rest house near from the parking lot. It was perfect that the rest house had a restaurant and I drank some glasses of water the waitless served me (In Japan, water is served for foree in most of restaurants), and......
Sea urchin!!!

Shakotan is famous for urchin fishing. There have been cultivated urchins in the markets but fishermen drove their boats to the sea and catch them from the sea in Shakotan. Usually, the fishing season starts in June, so I visited Shakotan a bit earlier to have those flesh urchins.
However, I found there was a sea urchin bowl in the menu (steamed urchin with cooked rice; you can have an image that beef of a beef bowl is replaced by sea urchins). Yes, this was one of my primary objectives for this little tour. Without hegitation, I ordered the sea urchin bowl. While I was waiting, I emptied many glasses of water (I don't remember how many exactly).

Twenty minutes passed. The waitress came to my table with the urchin bowl and its set menu foods. These were;

The sea urchin bowl with the set menu

1. Sea Urchin Bowl (The main dish on the left)
2.Vinegared Squid (the pink food on the right)
3. Vinegared Sea weed (Black one in the back)
4. Pickled radish (Yellow one in the front)


Look at the flesh urchins....Though it was steamed, it looked yummy. I brought up the chopstick on my fingers and inserted it into the urchin bowl. I grabbed the e yellow urchins with the cooked rice lying beneath and brought it up to my mouth.

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It was more than being yummy. It melted in my mouth and went into my stomach. No need to bite, it melted quite naturally but it left a flavor of ocean. I couldn't think of anything. It seemed that my body wanted to focus only on its tasty taste.  This freshness cleansed up my heart and washed away the fatigue I had felt. If I hadn't driven a car, I'd have had some pints of beer or even Japanese sake (rice wine). I swear I didn't cross the line. My motto for tour is to bring back my life to home with no life threats. For your information, driving after taking alcoholic drinks have been strictly banned legally with stringent penal rules recently. 
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