I Love Mikan!

After visiting the shrine we were brought to another place to have our lunch. Along the way already there are a lot of 'mikan' farm. Mikan is mandarin orange in Japanese. Mountains and mountains of the mikan trees! This excites me, as our very aim today is to pick the mikan!

I don't know the name of the lunch place, but it's like the centre of the mikan farm as there's the symbols of mikan everywhere. Even the truck. The view there is simply marvellous! We entered an exhibition hall, everything is about the mikan. Of course we don't understand a word.

When we finally wanted to settle down to take our lunch, we found that we don't know where can we have lunch. There were a few tables beside the truck but then while we busy taking photos the tables are fully occupied. The other crowd of people also nowhere to be seen. So, imitating some of the participants we just sit at one of the benches to take our lunch.

Suddenly the whole sky became cloudy, the wind was blowing. And I can assure you, it was REALLY strong! If you didn't stand properly you might fall. And its chillness can freeze me up. Imagine we had our lunch in such awful condition... gggrrrrrrrrrr... I lost appetite already. I even have to wear gloves, yet still shivering while eating.


We only found out before we leave that there's a building with cafe inside which we can actually sit there and eat comfortably. =.= haiz~

These are the artistic photos taken by Mr. Alvin when I was actually quite a distance away. Nice huh? haha.. I'm also learning a little bit of photographing. Can you differentiate which are taken by me and which are Alvin's? hehe. Any improvements?

After everyone got up to the bus yet we are still not moving towards Kono Farm to pick mikan. Waited for half an hour only we saw two of the participants boarding their bus. All the tour guides were looking for them. I don't know if they do not understand the Japanese and thus they were not back on time or they went too far and forgot the time. Actually every time when we are suppose to depart we'll have to wait for at least 15 minutes or more to get everyone on bus. This dragged us behind the schedule.

One thing I noticed is that none of the mikan farm are fenced up. You can simply enter any farm freely. This is how Japanese culture is. Trust and Honesty.

Finally we arrived at the mikan farm, but due to the delay of the departure time at every spot we only have less than one hour at Kono Farm. We were told before hand to bring extra scissors as the farm unit only can provide a pair of scissors for two person. But we forgot to bring...


We bought a plastic bag at 500 yen (RM15) and you can fill up as much as you want in the plastic bag. And you can also eat as much as you want in the farm itself. I only ate 3 or 4 then I got fed up already. Alvin ate over 10! In the end I'm busy picking mikan and he's busy eating and talking. There are quite a number of Malaysians or Indonesians.


Once getting in the farm some of the participants already got themselves strategic spot and settled down to have their 'picnic'.


On the way back they drop us at a rest house to go washroom etc. There's a souvenior shop there, selling food and also cute mikan decorations.


This is our price of victory~ wahhahahahaha~ We gave some to Prof Okuda, Funato san, Kho, and Alvin's lab mates, and the rest for our own. Worth it huh?