Our non-additive sea urchins by Murakami Shoten are supported by chefs with strong preferences from Toyosu wholesale market in Tokyo, sushi restaurants, kaiseki restaurants, Japanese-western restaurants and izakaya so on.
| Murakami Shoten Processing and sales of sea urchins |
| Head Office Factory 1-8-10, Nanaehama, Hokuto-shi Hokkaido |
| Features 1. processing of non-additive sea urchins and shipment 2. shell cracking and packing upon orders 3. production of processed sea urchins |
Our non-additive sea urchins by Murakami Shoten are supported by chefs with strong preferences from Toyosu wholesale market in Tokyo, sushi restaurants, kaiseki restaurants, Japanese-western restaurants and izakaya so on.
The reason why is that we invented the technique to ship non-additive sea urchins without using alum that’s often used to prevent shape collapse.
Our non-additive technique made possible to keep the original intrinsic mouth feel of sea urchins and sweetness even for distant customers.
Sea urchins are nutritious, sweet and they melt in your mouth. There are over 800 kinds of sea urchins in the world.
Out of 180 kinds in Japan, 7 kinds are targeted to catch.
Since there are kelps in the coast of Hokkaido, fishing for nutritious natural sea urchins is thriving. In order to protect sea urchin as precious marine resource, fishing seasons and time are controlled.
Sea urchins shipped by our company are northern sea urchin and short-spined sea urchin, both are luxury foods. Production area varies depending on the harvest timing.
left : short-spined sea urchin, right : northern sea urchinSea urchin is an animal covered with hard shell. There are ovaries and testes inside the shell, which is the edible part = body part.
However, sea urchins are sensitive enough to start melting once you break the shell. Therefore, it is very hard to ship, preservative called alum is often used to prevent from melting. Alum prevents shape collapse, but loses the original melting texture and leaves the particular astringent taste on the tongue.
(We recommend non-additive sea urchins but also process with alum upon request.)
We kept challenging ourselves to processing manually without using additive such as alum, and finally succeeded in packing and shipping non-additive sea urchins.
The body of sea urchin is protected by hard shell. Therefore, you can’t tell the quality inside without cracking the shell. We line one by one in the wooden box for you to see the quality which also saves you time from cracking the shell.
Raw Uni (sea urchin) in a wooden boxA common way to distribute uni in the market.
This gives a high-end feel to the product.
It comes in various amounts: 80g, 150g, 200g, or 250g
Raw Uni packed in a ten-compartment trayUni of the same amount is placed in each compartment of the packaging tray, which prevents uni from crumbling during transportation.
It comes in the amount of 150g or 200g.
Salt water sea urchinIt tastes fresh as if it just caught out of the sea.
More suitable for transportation.
It comes in various amounts: 80g, 90g, or 100g
Aburi Uni (Roasted Uni) Fresh raw uni is carefully selected and slowly roasted over low heat.
80g in a wooden box
Uni-shio (Uni Salt)Please use it as a dipping seasoning for whitefish, squid sashimi, tempura, etc.
15g (Different packages available and the amount to be changed in accordance with the request of customers)
| Company name | Murakami Shoten Co.,Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Address | 〒049-0111 1-8-10, Nanaehama, Hokuto-shi Hokkaido |
| TEL | +81-138-48-8311 |
| FAX | +81-138-49-3765 |
| info@uni-murakami.jp | |
| President | Masashi Murakami |
| Founded | 1954 |
| Established | September 1979 |
| Capital | 30 million yen |
| Business Contents |
Sales and processing of raw sea urchins and sea salt urchins Online sales to individual customer Restaurant business Product exhibition business |
| Employees | 71 |
| Main Customer |
Daito Gyorui Co.,Ltd. Kei Teion Foods Co.,Ltd. Gottsuobin Co.,Ltd. Takashimaya Company, Limited Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores Co.Ltd. Sogo&Seibu Co.,Ltd. Isetan Mitsukoshi Ltd. JALUX Inc. |
| Major Suppliers | Hokkaido Federation of Fisheries Cooperative Associations |
