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Anti-aging without waiting for spring with pure white onions from Shinohara, which is the earliest harvested in Japan!

Blood thinning, fatigue recovery, constipation relief, and anti-aging. All of these are health words that you may be interested in.

There’s something about this health word that really hits home. Onions are a classic vegetable that everyone knows. You can boil it, stir-fry it, or have it in Japanese, Western, or Chinese style! It is a versatile ingredient.

I think many people are aware of the high nutritional value of onions, which have been featured frequently on health programs in recent years, but did you know that onions are sensitive to heat and water? It is said that eating raw is the best way to absorb nutrients more effectively. However, regular onions have a uniquely strong spiciness and are difficult to eat raw.

Therefore, I would like to recommend pure white onions from Shinohara, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, which are less spicy. They are the earliest onions in Japan to be shipped early in the new year, and are delicious and can be eaten raw.

Harvested white onions from Shinohara with pure white skin.

Speaking of onions that can be eaten raw, “new onions” are in season from spring to early summer (March to May). Shinohara-grown white onions are faster than that. It will be available from January, right after the New Year. The Shinohara district is located in the south of Hamamatsu City, close to the sea. The region has been a thriving producer of onions since the Meiji era, with a warm climate suitable for growing onions, sandy soil with good drainage, and a high groundwater level.

However, rather than the typical brown onions with dry skins, the onions produced here are harvested with green leaves and are shipped immediately. It is shipped under names such as “salad onion,” “white onion,” and “white onion.”

In late December, I visited an onion field waiting to be harvested. A green field all over. Everything under this green is onions.

 

We were guided by Mr. Mako Shojima, the representative of Shojima Noen.

Mr. Shojima is a young new farmer who will be harvesting his crops for the fifth time this year.

Even though it’s called a field, it’s not just brown soil. There is a vast expanse of fine gray sand.

”It’s cold, but this wind is also what makes it delicious,” says Mr. Shojima, as he enters the field, pulling his hood over his head in the cold Enshu breeze.

When you get closer, you can see a fully grown onion through the vinyl. Harvest each piece while visually checking its size.

I was also let go.

The onion slipped out from between the vinyl without putting in half the effort I had imagined. It’s so comfortable that you’ll want to pull it out as much as you want. The sand that came with the onions was also smooth.

Harvested onions have a firm, fresh texture. After five years of starting his business, Mr. Shojima says, “I’m finally able to make what I want.”

Shinohara-produced white onions are characterized by their slightly flattened shape rather than a round shape, with little skin to discard, making them thick and sweet. It has a lot of moisture and has little irritating odor, so it won’t hurt your eyes even if you cut it with a knife. First of all, I want you to fully enjoy it with onion slices. Of course, the sweetness that comes through the heat is also exceptional.

The leaves and roots of each harvested onion are cut by hand, but during the first half of the harvest season, “salad onions with leaves” are also available, which have leaves that remain lush and green. “Leafed” means that onions are freshly harvested with green leaves.

Of course, even the leaves are delicious to eat. When you find it, be sure to try its flavor.

In Shinohara, as in other industries, some people are giving up their fields due to the aging population and lack of successors, but the company has accumulated technology that allows it to ship products the fastest in Japan. “The production area is like a living national treasure. I want to protect it,” says Mr. Shojima.

“I want people all over the country to know the taste of Hamamatsu onions,” so they created an online direct sales page and started shipping nationwide. This year, I want you to eat raw white onions from Shinohara, which are shipped the earliest in Japan. Why not try some delicious anti-aging treatments with white onions, one of Hamamatsu’s specialty vegetables?

 

Shojima Noen Ozawatomachi Office

Direct sales page Nationwide shipping available

https://shinohara-shintama.jp/chokubai/products/list

1671-2 Ozawato-cho, Minami-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture 432-8063

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A drop of nature grown in Hamamatsu Tenryu Forest. “Kuromoji tea” made from trees

This year too, the delicious treasure grown in the forest, “Kicoro forest scented tea,” will be coming to town.

It is Kuromoji tea from Tenryu Forest, which was created with the idea of ​​being an “entrance to get people interested in the forest,” and is harvested only once a year in early spring.

I first encountered this tea four years ago. At a cafe in Tenryu Ward, a friend recommended it to me and said, “This Kuromoji tea is delicious. It’s made from wood.” When I asked her, “What is a tree? You mean the leaves on that tree?”, she answered that they were not actually leaves. When we think of tea, we think of green tea or herbal tea, which is made from soft materials such as leaves and flower petals. So when I was told that it was made from wood, I couldn’t imagine it.

What arrived on the table was a gentle pink tea with a very nice aroma that overturned the image of “wood”.

You may not be familiar with the “Kuromoji” tree, but you might know it as a sweet toothpick used to cut up Japanese sweets and bring them to your mouth.

Nowadays, many of them are made of plastic or other wood, but they were originally made from the Kuromoji tree, which has a pleasant aroma and antibacterial properties. It is well known that when Sen no Rikyu, a famous tea master, made tea for Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he offered them a freshly shaved fragrant toothpick from a branch of the Kuromoji tree in his garden. The scent of Kuromoji may have soothed the spirits of war-torn military commanders.

Japanese sweets and Kuromoji cutting sweets

Kuromoji is said to be an aromatic native to Japan, and its refreshing yet sweet scent is said to have antiviral and relaxing effects. It is said that it is also included in Chanel No. 5, and it is a tree that is like the savior of today’s times.

Kuromoji has been drunk for treatment and health since ancient times. A herbal medicine called Usho is made from the leaves and branches, and it is also brewed and drunk as a health tea. So, what is the difference between Tenryu no Mori’s Kuromoji tea and the health teas that have been drunk up until now?

The person who makes Tenryu Forest’s Kuromoji tea is Mr. Takeshi Maeda, who works as a “visible woodcutter” to connect the mountains and the city. Even though I don’t like the outdoors or the rain, I was selfish because I wanted to see the black moji tree. Then, on a rainy day at the start of the rainy season, Mr. Maeda showed me around Kikoro Forest in Tenryu.

Let’s experience the skills of craftsmen ~ Ganyudo “Shokunin-san”

As I spend more time at home, I find myself worrying more about what to do, especially on holidays. At that time, I happened to look at SNS and saw an experience that an acquaintance had introduced saying that there was something like this. It is a kit called “Shokunin-san” by Ganyudo.

Ganyudo is a long-established traditional store that was founded in the Meiji era, and each of its Japanese sweets are carefully made by craftsmen, and from the appearance to the taste, each one is overflowing with a sense of happiness that cannot be expressed in words. Ganyudo sells a kit called “Shokunin-san” by mail order, which allows you to make Japanese sweets like a craftsman, but how can you look at the samples without actually having the craftsman nearby? I guess I can get some advice…

With this in mind, I opened the “Shokunin-san” kit I had purchased out of curiosity. I felt a sense of excitement, like opening a gift box. The box had a nice photo of Ganyudo’s Japanese sweets, giving off the atmosphere of a strict, long-established Japanese sweets shop.

5 recommended autumn leaves spots near Hamamatsu! When is the best time to see it and how crowded is it?

The suburbs of Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture are an area rich in nature, and there are many recommended spots where you can see beautiful autumn leaves.

In this article, we will introduce 5 recommended autumn foliage spots near Hamamatsu. We also provide information on the best time to see the leaves and how crowded they are, so please use this as a reference for your autumn foliage tour.

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