The best experiences are those you get into by accident. This maxim proved true again one sunny saturday when I took the wife and kid on a road trip to Itoshima. We did not have a plan other than to make the little one’s toes touch the sea and sand for the first time. We drove towards Itoshima and turn left or right on a whim. This was how we discovered Mataichi No Shio, a sea salt making company located in an isolated dead-end at the western most tip of Itoshima City. Asawa had heard about their tasty salt but never knew where they were located. So she was quite happy to have accidentally reached this place at the end of a very narrow dirt road. (more…)
