Kaneni's Commitment
Kaneni has been a middleman at the Shibayama and Kasumi fishing ports for many years. Through purchasing and selling seafood, the company has naturally accumulated a vast amount of know-how.
Kaneni has a number of unyielding principles that we will continue to uphold, with the goal of delivering fresh, high-quality ingredients to our customers.
Sticking to "crab"
Kaneni is all about crab. In this region, high-quality crabs are considered special and stand out from the rest, and are called by the name of the fishing port they are caught in. Some of the most common names are Shibayama crab (matsuba crab) and Kasumi crab (red snow crab). We deliver the finest quality crabs!
Shibayama Gold
Shibayama crabs are ranked through rigorous selection and given the title of "Shibayama Crab (see below)", and from among these the most carefully selected Shibayama Crabs are called "Shibayama Gold", and are considered the highest quality of Matsuba crabs landed at Shibayama Port.
Only one in every 3,000 crabs is found, and this Shibayama crab is perfect in appearance, shape, and meat.
Because they are so valuable, they are not always caught. Please be sure to contact us by phone. If you need them as a year-end gift or present, it is best to buy them in November when the price is stable.
[Period: November 6th to March 31st]
Shibayama crab
Traditionally, crabs caught at Shibayama Fishing Port are distinguished by tags unique to that fishing port. At Shibayama Fishing Port, where quality control is strict, crabs caught at Shibayama Fishing Port are ranked in a detailed manner that is unparalleled at other fishing ports.
It is said that there are 100 ranks of crabs. Among them, only the top rank crabs are tagged with the color "pink" as "Shibayama crab".
"Shibayama Crab" is a title given to Matsuba crabs that have been carefully selected from among the high-quality crabs landed at Shibayama Fishing Port.
Crab
Sekogani is a female Matsuba crab. In some regions, it is also called Koppe.
There are four delicious ways to eat Sekogani. Each has a different taste: the roe, the sotoko, the miso, and the crab meat. Some locals and crab connoisseurs say that Sekogani is the best!
This is a rare crab that can only be eaten during a short fishing season.
[Period: November 6th to December 30th]
Golden Crab
It is a cross between a snow crab (matsuba crab) and a Kasumi crab (red snow crab). It is extremely rare, occurring in perhaps one out of every 1,000 crabs... it is treated as a valuable and extremely rare item.
It is a special crab that combines the good points of both snow crab (Matsuba crab) and red snow crab (Kasumi crab), with plenty of meat and the umami of snow crab (Matsuba crab) and the sweetness of red snow crab (Kasumi crab). *Because it is very precious, it is not always landed.
Please be sure to contact us by phone.
[Period: September 1st to May 31st]
Kasumi crab
"Kasumi crab" refers to the red snow crab caught at Kasumi fishing port.
Kasumi Fishing Port is located near a special fishing ground with nutrient-rich seabed soil where high-quality red snow crabs grow. It has long been said that "Kasumi's red snow crabs are of high quality and especially delicious!"
Due to this background, it has come to be known as "Kasumi crab" as a special crab that stands out from others.
Nowadays, crab has become famous as a brand that can be eaten all year round.
"Boiled"
Be particular
One minute for Matsuba crab, 30 seconds for Red Snow Crab. If the boiling time is wrong, even if the crab is worth tens of thousands of yen, it will not be marketable... This is the nervous process of boiling crab, even for a craftsman with 45 years of experience. It is a race against time. Only those who know and remember the different boiling times with experience and intuition can boil crab.
Committed to "connoisseurship"
Ultimately, it is the broker's keen eye that determines the value. Shibayama Fishing Port's Matsuba crabs are the best in Japan at being selected. There are over 100 different ranks. Women known as "selectors" carefully sort the crabs, sometimes spending several hours doing so. However, no matter how carefully they are sorted, it is ultimately the broker who determines their value. The value of the crab is ultimately determined by the broker's keen eye, discerning eye, and high quality.
We focus on the "materials"
We deliver carefully selected seasonal and fresh seafood such as Shibayama crab (matsuba crab), Kasumi crab (red snow crab), Nodoguro, white shrimp, black shrimp, white squid, red squid, flatfish, sandfish... The high-quality and extremely fresh ingredients selected by Kaneni are delicious no matter how you eat them!
At the "fishing port"
Be particular
The two biggest fishing ports on the Sea of Japan are the source of their supplies. Shibayama Fishing Port, which produces Shibayama crab (matsuba crab), and Kasumi Fishing Port, which produces Kasumi crab (red snow crab). Kaneni has lived together with both fishing ports for many years and they are like his own garden. He knows the good and bad points of both. They are famous fishing ports that have been the kitchen of Sanin for a long time, supporting the town with fresh seafood landed every day.
Shibayama Fishing Port
Shibayama Fishing Port, home of Shibayama crab
Shibayama Fishing Port is located near rich fishing grounds, and a variety of seafood from the Sea of Japan is landed there throughout the year.
The most famous crab is the "Matsuba crab" that is caught in winter. Among them, the "Shibayama crab", which is only given the name "Matsuba crab" to the best crabs, is also delicious! Its value as a brand crab is increasing year by year.
The bustling Shibayama Port is a natural bay, which is rare on the Japan Coast, which has few bends.
Although it is smaller in scale than Maizuru Port to the east and Sakaiminato Port to the west, crabs and seafood that grow on the nutrient-rich seabed of the rough Sea of Japan are landed in abundance throughout the year.
There are souvenir shops near the market, and many people visit every day in search of fresh seafood caught at Shibayama Fishing Port.
Kasumi Fishing Port
Kasumi Fishing Port, home of Kasumi crab
Like Shibayama Fishing Port, this fishing port also brings in various seafood from the Sea of Japan throughout the year. Matsuba crabs are also landed here, but the most famous thing about this fishing port is the Kasumi crab (red snow crab). The fishing season for Kasumi crab is longer than that of Matsuba crab, running from autumn to spring, and it is a popular crab that can be eaten all year round.
In Kasumi, crab is as popular as various types of shrimp and live squid.
Every day, Kasumi Fishing Port unloads an abundant catch of crabs, seafood, and other fish that have grown up in the rough waves of the Sea of Japan.
There are souvenir shops near the market, and many people visit every day in search of fresh seafood caught at the fishing port.
Committed to "product creation"
We strive to create each product carefully, using time-consuming and labor-intensive manual processes such as boiling crabs in a pot, where even a one-minute difference in time is not allowed, removing crab meat by hand, which has earned us unwavering trust, and drying fish in the sun in the natural sea breeze. Each employee takes pride in their craftsmanship as they create products every day.
To "people"
Be particular
Our company's ideal model is an "orchestra." There is a conductor (management), members (employees) in charge of each part, and beyond that there are the customers. If the conductor and each member of the orchestra do not have high skills, the orchestra as a whole will not be highly evaluated. If the orchestra is not unified as a whole, it will be the same. We continue to improve every day with the goal of becoming a great orchestra that everyone recognizes.