Enjoy persimmons in Japan's best persimmon town! Persimmon festival, harvest experience, and persimmon gourmet tour in Gojo City, Nara Prefecture

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Gojo City has the highest persimmon production in Japan (by municipality). This is a special event full of persimmons that can only be realized locally. Details and application https://exploring-nara.jp/experience/2023-4/

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Persimmons in Nara/Enjoy persimmons in Japan's best persimmon town! Persimmon festival, harvest experience, and persimmon gourmet tour in Gojo City, Nara Prefecture

Date and time: November 23rd (Thursday/Holiday)

Location: Gojo City, Nara Prefecture

Contents: Starts with a tour of the Kaki no Sato Festival (JA Naraken Nishiyoshino Persimmon Sorting Farm), persimmon harvesting experience and lunch (Noyushaou Gindo), brewery tour (Gojo Sake Brewery), special persimmon cooking event (restaurant, etc.) Genbei)'s "persimmon-packed" tour.

After visiting the popular local festival "Kaki no Sato Festival", you will experience harvesting persimmons in a farmer's field, and then have lunch at a farm restaurant located in an old private house that is over 150 years old. Enjoy dishes prepared by local mothers using seasonal vegetables and based on simple recipes handed down in the area.

Stroll through the quaint townscape of Gojo. After touring Gojo Sake Brewery and receiving a lecture on Nara sake from company president Eiji Nakamoto, we went to the locally popular restaurant Genbei, where we paired Nara sake with persimmons and dishes with roots in Nara. Enjoy your ring. Persimmon processed product businesses, chefs, and brewers related to persimmons will gather in Gojo City to entertain participants.

(Hospitality to the participants): Mr. Akito Nakatani, head chef of Genbei, Mr. Kazuhiro Ishii, president of Ishii Bussan, Mr. Eiji Nakamoto, president of Gojo Sake Brewery, Mr. Takashi Yamamoto, managing director of Yamamoto Honke)

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・Noyusha Ohindo https://www.noyusha1338.com ,

・Restaurant https://www.noyusha1338.com/restaurant

・Genbei: (Japanese) https://genbei.info (English) https://genbei.info/english/

・Persimmon specialty: https://a-kaki.com

・Gojo Sake Brewery: (Japanese) https://sake-goshin.com/ (English) https://sake-goshin.com/pages/en_top

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