Sea salt · 5 products

Japanese Sea Salt

Four coasts, four methods: wood-fired crystals from Shin-Kamigoto, sun-grown salt from Yasuda in Kochi, hondawara moshio from Kamagari, and spray-crystallized Pacific salt from Miyagi Island, Okinawa.

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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.

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.

Yasuda, 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.

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