The manager of a chain of hot spring hotels bid 1.2 million yen, or around $11,000, for 24 Ruby Roman grapes, which are prized for their juiciness, high sugar content and low acidity.
Visitors to a hot spring in central Japan will soon be able to snack on $460 grapes, or rather, grape.
"We offered 1.2 million yen to mark the 12 years and to celebrate Reiwa's first auction," Hosokawa told reporters, referring to the country's new era,Ruby Roman grapes, grown in central Japan, are among the most expensive in the world, prized for their sweetness and low acidity.Ruby Red grapes were developed in Ishikawa and first came to market in 2008. They've been hugely popular ever since, with only a select number being sold to keep demand and exclusivity levels high.
These can often be uniquely shaped or colored fruit, which are painstakingly cultivated or forced to grow in a specific way, such as square watermelons, heart-shaped strawberries or the albino White Jewel strawberries grown in Karatsu, on Japan's southern Kyushu Island. Expensive luxury melons, prized for their taste and the delicate pattern on their surface, on sale in Hong Kong.Lynne Nakano, a professor of Japanese studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, said that the structure of Japan's farming market encourages producers to focus on specialty goods.
"There's a lot of talk about problems in the Japanese farming industry," Nakano said."Particularly as farmers are aging ... people want to give encouragement to young farmers that they can make a profit or do well."
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