The marine products business handed down from generation to generation

Imai Mosuke Store is an old store whose skills have been handed down through three generations since Mr. Mosuke Imai started the marine products-processing business toward the beginning of the Showa era.
The processed products are mainly made from fresh squids landed at the Himezu Fishing Port in the Himezu village of the Aikawa district. Besides the popular "ichiyaboshi" (squids salted and dried overnight) and "shiokara" (salted squid guts), Imai Mosuke Store makes "ika-kojizuke"(squids preserved in malt), "ika-misozuke"(squids preserved in miso), amazu-ika"(squids preserved in sweet vinegar) and so on―products unique to this area made by adding ingredients made or found on Sado to raw materials.
In addition to processed squids, the store deals in many kinds of marine products such as salted and dried sukesodara (Alaska pollock), dried and mirin (sweet sake)-seasoned sukesodara and dried sea-vegetables―marine products sun-dried in the beach wind blowing from the Sea of Japan.

Without the special processing skills, "ika-tokkuri" could never be made.

Making "ika-tokkuri" is said to be the most difficult of all methods of processing squids.
An "Ika-tokkuri" means a "tokkuri" (a sake bottle) made from a sagitated squid, which takes the shape of a tokkuri for Japanese sake. It takes a competent skill and plenty of time and labor to make "ika-tokkuri," so nowadays only a few people make them even on Sado Island.
Imai Mosuke Store hopes to preserve this processing technique that has been taken over from the present owner's father, and still goes on making "ika-tokkuri."

You can enjoy the flavor and fragrance of a squid just by putting Japanese sake in a "ika-tokkuri," but if you put roasted squid's legs into an ika-tokkuri along with sake, you can enjoy the taste of the squid still more.

A sort of local convenience store "Moheijiya"

"Moheijiya (Imai Mosuke Store)," which stands in the street of the Himeji village of the Aikawa district has been familiar to local people from old days as the local convenience store. "Moheijiya," the store where salt and tobacco have been sold since the Meiji era, has gradually increased the varieties of merchandise, and now has become the local convenience store which deals in everything from commodities such as foods, rice, liquors, miscellaneous goods to medicines and postage stamps, and even acts as an agent for a home delivery service company..

In case you get into trouble on your trip around Sado, you might be able to have your problems solved at "Moheijiya"!

Feel free to drop in any time, because Moheijiya is open every day throughout the year.

name of facility	Moheijiya　(Imai Mosuke Store)
address	229 Himezu, Sado City, Niigata Prefecture
website	http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~mosuke/　(Japanese only)
business hours	8:00 - 20:00
a regular holiday	No holidays throughout the year
a parking place, a parking lot	There is no parking place. ※In case you come by car, please use the parking place in front of Himezu Ohashi Bridge.
commodities that are dealt in (sold)	Processed marine products and others
payment method	cash
remarks column	*The products cannot be sent to overseas.