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Tsuribiyori TERUMASA fishes Hiroshima Bay for red sea bream all year, and runs an English day trip of its own pairing the fishing with a cruise past Miyajima.

Konpira-maru fishes tai-rubber for red sea bream and nothing else, all year, out of a harbour you can walk to from Hinase Station in four minutes.

TRUST runs amberjack casting, deep-water slow jigging and night squid out of one small Shimane port, and the plan you pick changes the entire day.

A boat out of Tottori Marina leaves at 20:00 for squid, and a live well at every seat means the catch goes home with you still alive.

A private-charter boat at the southern tip of Honshu takes one group at a time out of Kushimoto, and the dock is a few minutes' walk from the station.

A shared boat out of Tarumi in Kobe fishes the Akashi Strait with tairaba for red sea bream, and its captain helped design some of the lures it runs on.

A shared boat out of Shimosho Port near Osaka works tachiuo, sea bream, squid and rockfish, and a 23-minute drive takes your catch to a Wakayama kitchen.

Fish the deep water for rosy seabass on the 5 a.m. run from Goza Port, or chase squid under the lights on Chiei-maru's evening trip in Ise-Shima.

Catch octopus and flatfish on a private charter 30 minutes from Nagoya Station, with rental gear aboard and a five-angler boat all to yourselves.

Feel the hairtail strike aboard FABULA, a 28-foot boat working Toyama Bay's shallows since 2025 — a captain who fishes for memories, not records.