One of Ryouske and my many hobbies is “hunting” (狩り-ing) fruits in Japan. What I mean by that is we love going to all you can pick, all you can eat fruit farms. In Japan, “all you can eat” cherries, blueberries, grapes, apples, etc are called [insert fruit] + “gari/狩り” which literally translates to “hunting [fruit].” We like to joke around and say things like “lets go cherry hunting this weekend!” or “Let’s do some apple hunting up in Aomori during vacation~” Basically we’re weird. And love mixing the two languages. I recorded this video two (?) weekends ago, while we were visiting Ryosuke’s parents – and then proptly forgot about it. So. Yeah. How to Go “BlueBerry Hunting” / Blueberry Gari -ing in Japan 1. Find a place Ryosuke’s parents found this place in the local Ibaraki newspaper the week before. It was popular because they didn’t use pesticides, offered an all-you-can-eat package, and let you bring blueberries home in a package (if you paid extra). It was actually located pretty close to the Daibutsu Buddha statue. Our all-you-could-eat package was 1000yen. Some places are cheaper (we found a good one about an hour away that was only 500yen, but it looked like it was [...]
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