expensive fruit

You can buy everyday fruit like we do in the States, or you can have the perfect designer melon or apple, it will cost you though. These photos were taken in some of the local supermarkets. Most of the markets I visited had these high end fruits.

Some of the fruit of is imported but I think most of it is grown locally in greenhouses. The high-end cantaloupes that I saw ranged from $30-65 each. In appearance, they were perfect in every way. The stem and vine of each cantaloupe was carefully wrapped in paper. Fumiko says that each melon has a date written on the label indicating the optimum day on which it should be eaten.

Rounding out the selection are some $7 apples, a $14 mango, some $6 kiwis and a $15 basket of clone-like strawberries.