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Café Marufuku and Fukuda Katsuzō

Fukuda Katsuzō is of Saga origin. He came to Penghu as a staff
member of the Harashouten in March 1911. He continued to serve in the
shop for another six years before turning to a coal business and a shop
selling western goods. However, seeing the lack of cafés in Magong, at
which the military is stationed, he switched to manage Café Marufuku in
November 1930, which turns out to be a success and is now indispensable
in Magong.

Café Marufuku

Urashima, a café-style
restaurant, and Arida
Jyōtarō

Arida Jyōtarō was born in
Aichi Prefecture. He came to
Penghu in 1926, opening a lunch
box shop providing takeaways
with a capital of ¥ 40 only.

Thanks to his hard work, he
was able to build a new building at
the current location in 1930, and
switch to managing the café-style
restaurant Urashima instead. Arida
i s w i d e l y p r a i s e d f o r h i s
restaurant, which offers delicious
cuisine and quality services.

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