Roadside Rural Japan
One of the main reason I love driving around the country side in Japan are the roadside farmer’s markets literally everywhere around the countryside. From the smallest (cardboard boxes of vegetables and a tin can to put your money in) to rural coops with staff and great stuff like local wine, honey, sake, tofu or fruits. Traveling around Shizuoka’s Izu peninsula last week I stopped at this one to buy a few kilos of cheap fruits, one of my purchases being the huge tangerine/orange hybrid called dekopon. Yeah, I hadn’t heard of it before either. It tastes like orange but sweeter and peels like a tangerine. In Tokyo they sometimes sell for as much as 800 yen per fruit but in the countryside you can usually buy at the orchards (like I did) for 800 yen per bag. Excellent stuff! Next time you go on a Japanese road-trip, don’t forget to stop and sample the local produce!
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