Sakaiminato City, located at the tip of Yumigahama Peninsula,is the city whose area is about 28 square kilometers.
Since early days, Sakaiminato has grown with its fine natural port,to which to the opposite Shimane Peninsula has been a protection against rough waves of Japan Sea and the monsoons.
The city is complete with infrastructures such as harbor, airport and railroad. As the key trade point in the era of Japan Sea Rim and Japan's major fishery base well known for its landing of large quantity of fish, Sakaiminato is on its way to become and accomplish the role for international fishery and trade.

When looked at from countries on the opposite shores, Sakaiminato City is situated almost in the middle of West Japan.
Sakaiminato has been, since early days,prosperous with overseas trade with the countries on the other side across the sea.
Port of Sakai was designated the port of foreign trade by the central government in 1896, and it became a terminal of the railroad which was built in the Sanin region for the first time in 1902 for the purpose of cargo transport.

Regular shipping services opened during 1930's to Dalien,Inchon,Chongzin, Wonson,Busan and Pohan,and these services boosted the traffic of people and cargo.
In 1951, Port of Sakai was desiganted as one of the key national ports by the central government in its recognition of the port�es geographical advantage and past foreign trade showings. Projects for infrastructure including reclamation of the outer harbor area and building piers for large freight ships have been put into effect.
In 1995, Foreign Access Zone(Sakaiminato FAZ Plan) was approved,and the regular container services started to China and Korea in the same year.
In 2004, the berth for 50,000-ton class ships started to use,along with a Gantry Crain which was installed for the first time of its kind in the San-in region,and provided the port more functions.

Sakaiminato City is a fishery base having Sakai Fishing Port which was designated in 1973 as the Special Fish Port of Third Category.

1992 through 1996,Sakaiminato was No.1 in Japan for continuous five years,in terms of quantity of fish on landing. Sakaiminato continues to be one of the major fishery bases in Japan.

Major species of fish for landing are sadine,saurel and mackerel which are caught by groups of large fishing boats with circular net that can catch large quantity of fishes just by one operation. Each group normally consists of one netting boat,two searching boats and two transporting boats.

Sakai Fishing Port is No.1 in Japan for the quantity on combined landing of red snow crabs and snow crabs. Red snow crabs are processed to various food categories and are sold throughout Japan.