I love checking out the souvenirs and local produce on sale at Road stations, and the Higashiura Road Station was no exception. There was an abundance of flavors from the sea, like anago (conger eel) wakame (seaweed) and octopus. Awaji Island is famous for its sweet white onions, and there were lots of onion flavored items available too. The most appealing thing I saw was the stall serving long squid tentacled dredged in batter and flattened between two sizzling hotplates until they were toasted golden brown. Unfortunately there was a huge crowd around that stall, and I couldn't get a good photo.
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Shopping For Local Awaji Flavors
Tempting souvenirs at Higashiura Terminal Road Station
By Cathy Cawood
Community writer
Onion pies
Famously sweet Awaji 'fruit' onions
Onion flavored snacks
Sable cookies decorated with Hyogo Prefecture motifs
These wide, flat noodles are Pera-pera (flimsy) Udon
Delicious milk mochi
Tiny dried shrimp
Mixed rice crackers
Sake flavored manju cakes
Gigantic grapefruit-like citrus
I'm not sure if these are rice crackers or dried eel
Octopus rice crackers
Wakame (seaweed) noodles - udon and soba
Incense
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These sweet potatoes look better than the ones in Tokyo!
Neko (cat) cider in cute bottles
Man operating the toasted squid press
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Geraldine Buergel
5 years ago
The sake flavoured cakes look really good!
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