HITA LOCAL SOUVENIORS, Pottery, Food, Geta, and…

January 6, 2008 - 8:34 am by akko@hakata in Culture, Food, Others, Travel  

Tenryo Yaki is one of the local pottery in Hita, and is famous for gracious coloring and design, using maple leaves (Craftmen use real maple leaves).

Variety of dishes for lots of use.

Hita is also famous for making good GETA !

Decoration for New Year.

Plum jam, Plum pickles. (Hita produces good plums!)
The green one is YUZU KOSHO. [...]

CHISAN-CHISHO, Try 100 Organic Local Foods @ `Konohana Garden’, Tenryo Hita

- 8:16 am by akko@hakata in Food, Others, Travel  

KYUSHU is a blessed island with rich soil, warm weather, and the location surround by sea, all of which eventually make it the FOOD PARADICE !! (beside being ONSEN PARADICE!!)
Now `CHISAN-CHISHO’ means, producted and consumed in local town, a key phrase to characterise KYUSU culture.
Out of many wonderful places, Tenryo Hita, (Tenryo means the town [...]

Ukai, Commorant Fishing and Fantastic Party night on Yakatabune @ Mikuma River, Kyushu

September 13, 2007 - 1:27 pm by akko@hakata in Others, Travel  

More than Roppongi, More than Shibuya, or Shinjuku…
If you’re to spend the most fantastic night…completely different from any other busy cities, I mean, your own night…then, please visit Hita!

This is Yakatabune, a houseboat, floating on Mikuma river.

Now you can see it in detail. This is quite large, and is like `a moving Japanese Ryokan’!

Dinner will [...]

Visit the only Lemon soda factory in Japan, @ Hita Soy Sauce Shop of 15 generations!

July 2, 2007 - 7:09 am by akko@hakata in Food, Travel  

Hita is also famous for delicious soy sauce!

This is rainbow ramaune（lemon soda）, gently sweet, and the color is all natural !
It’s another simbol product of Hara Jirozaemon Soysauce shop.

It has the only ramune factory open to public in Japan!

Marbles used for ramune tap.

Now this is the soysauce factory.

Good soysauce is made from good water.
Attached with [...]