Too late to help you out, I`m afraid, but I used to live near Shimonoseki some time ago. What did you visit Shimonseki for? To learn how to prepare blowfish? To visit the spot of the signing of the treaty ending the Russo-Japanese war? That table by the way is up here in Aichi prefecture. I'm blown away...
Mikawa Ossan,
I visited Shimonoseki Christ Bible Church in the Kawanaka area(?) to help promote their English school there. It was a wonderful, wonderful time I will never forget!
But I didn't have any fugu while I was there either!