Experience World Class Seafood in Ishinomaki’s Golden Route -Ask for Sanriku’s seafood ‘sea squirt zoni’ and ‘gold’- Teeming with a wide variety of seafood, the waters off the coast of Ishinomaki are considered one of the world’s top three fishing grounds. A Tohoku delicacy only harvested here in the Sanriku coast and Hokkaido is hoya, a type of sea squirt sometimes called ‘sea pineapple’ due to its shape. It has a bold and unique flavor, which some describe as “eating the sea itself.”