Our motto: Keeping Our Traditional Tastes Alive

In 1945, a man named Kojiro Ohta, grandfather of the representative director Hiroto Ohta opened the shop “Ohta Kamaboko” at Nakajima-cho, Hakodate, which has become the present main shop. During the unstable postwar era, good taste of his products drew attention from local customers and became increasingly popular in Hakodate.

Since the beginning of this company, the founder continually improved his techniques as a Kamaboko craftsman, which brought him many awards. Eventually, he became successful enough to make and present special Kamaboko gift for the Imperial Family.

In 2007, “Ohta Kamaboko” was closed due to a lack of the successor.

In 2012, the founder’s grandson, Hiroto Ohta began to manage the family business and reopened “Ohta Kamaboko” as a representative director.

At first, he was no more than an amateur and couldn’t even knead one ground fish, but with the help of the local manufacturers, he succeeded in restoring the shop and created his original fish paste.

Our main shop is located in Hakodate.

We make do marketing events in Hakodate,

in other prefectures, and also abroad. Recently,

we have had more and more requests from Southeast Asian countries to make demonstration sales due to the high quality of our products.

We hope to introduce our fish cake to the world and make it as well loved

as other traditional Japanese foods just like sushi, sukiyaki, ramen, and tempura.