Yakushima, The Water Island: The Secret of it’s special Shochu
In this issue, We asked Mr.Tanaka the secret of his Sake, born from the riches of Yakushima’s pure water.
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I am from Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Born and raised by the sea, I like to spend time on the weekends enjoying outdoor activities like beach soccer and camping. I’ve been backpacking since I was in school, and I have visited 30 countries across 5 continents. The most fun trip I’ve been on lately was renting a mobile camper and travelling across America. I also backpack across Japan!
- Gender
- Male
- Birth place
- Kanagawa prefecture
- Favorite food
- Local specialties, raw shirasu. The meal I had overseas that left me with the greatest impression was a Turkish mackerel sandwich!
- Food I hate
- None (if I had to choose, “injera,” a staple food I had in Ethiopia)
- Hobbies/Likes
- Outdoor activities like camping and barbecuing, listening to music at summer festivals, traveling (domestic and international)
- What I’m good at
- Beach soccer, outdoor cooking
- What I’m not good at
- Arithmetic
- Where in Japan I recommend the most and why to travelers in Japan.
- Hokkaido. There’s delicious food all over (seafood, meat, vegetables... everything is delicious). I especially recommend visiting Doto. It has different sorts of charms than the rest of Japan, like the Kushiro Marshlands and the Abashiri drift ice.
- Favorite memory from traveling in Japan.
- Seeing the “Miroku Bosatsu” statue at Koryu-ji in Kyoto. It was one of the nation’s first designated national treasures, and I was drawn in by the statue’s limber body and archaic smile.
- Must do activity for visitors to Japan.
- Try comparing different types of Japanese sake! In particular, sake from Niigata, a rice-producing region, is exceptional.