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You may be shocked to discover that a medium seedless watermelon in Tokyo can cost up to 4000 USD. Overview of Watermelon Market in Japan.
TOKYOA prized Densuke watermelon grown in northern Japan sold at auction on Monday for about 2000.
Price of watermelon in japan. Forty bucks for a Watermelon. You may be shocked to discover that a medium seedless watermelon in Tokyo can cost up to 4000 USD. It doesnt stop there how about 10 USD for an ounce of blueberries or 10 for a cantaloupe.
Surprisingly this is common place in the land of the Rising sun. 4 Cantaloupe 5800 or 4833 each. 5 Cantaloupes ranging from 10000 to 20000 per box.
That is 5000 to 10000 each or up to 8333 6 Watermelon 2980or 2483 each. 7 Australian beef 298 per 100g or 1340 or 1117 per pound. Domestic Prices Export Import Production Seasonality Import Export Guides.
View Watermelon Offers arrow_forward. Overview of Watermelon Market in Japan. The former could considered cheap.
Daiei considers itself a bit posh and is not the place for most people to do the bulk shopping. Still fruit in Japan is fruit in Japan its probably expensive where ever you get it. All prices below are in Japanese yen.
Price is for a single piece of fruit unless stated otherwise. First released in 2008 today individual bunches can sell for over 100000 yen 880 each – but that price can go much higher. In southwest Japan last year a supermarket paid 11 million yen.
46 rows Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications monitors the price of. Why Melons in Japan Can Cost 27000. Japan is a nation of social mysteries.
However for foreigners there is probably one facet that seems most bizarre and that is the nations acceptance of and even love and admiration for ridiculously expensive fruit. Were taking a closer look into why Japan. High-end specimens produced for the domestic gift market that can fetch eye-watering prices.
A single melon can sell for upwards of 15000 yen around A200 a. In Japan for every gourmet manufacturers will come up with all sorts of options for example sell chilled fruit in the shape of a heart or cubes. They will cost up to 860 abroad and up to 1500 in Japan.
For one foodie trend growers will force otherwise-normal watermelon into cool shapes like hearts or cubes. Those fruits will for as much as 860 overseas and 1500 in Japan. The price was the highest on record for a Densuke watermelon said Kazuyoshi Ohira a spokesman for the Tohma Agricultural Cooperative in Hokkaido.
Most retail at department stores and. But Japans designer watermelons costing 20000 apiece are a world away from your run-of-the-mill garden variety watermelon. Established in 1834 Sembikya is Japan.
TOKYOA prized Densuke watermelon grown in northern Japan sold at auction on Monday for about 2000. Thats a lot for a piece of fruit but down more than 70 from last years season-opening. Some of the melons cost 100 USD or more.
The High Cost of Quality Like perhaps many others I thought the exorbitant cost of these fruits was just another example of overpricing in general especially in Tokyo. But it turns out there are some very legitimate reasons for the high price tag. In a Japanese supermarket you can purchase a unique cube watermelon for a pricey 12500 USD.
Often you can find them cheaper if you shop around although due to the popularity of these prize fruits generally they sit around the 10000 USD mark. Other Watermelon Shape Crazes. Cube watermelons are common in Japan but they are essentially ornamental and are often very expensive with prices as high as 100.
Its now square watermelon season in Japan and that means youll see them displayed in shop windows most not for sale. Every now and then a shop w.