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JAPAN 2020
JAPAN TRIP 2020
Once again, we will be returning to the land of the rising sun.
visiting the Niigata region of Japan, to hand select some more high quality koi for this coming year.
We are planning to be out there around the end of March.
Remember that we will be updating the website, Facebook, and Instagram daily as always.
We now have the facility to connect to wifi when at the farms so will be able to update more frequently.
We really enjoy being out in Japan working, its an absolute pleasure to be able to go there to be able to select high quality koi for our customers.
We are certain that you would like to have this experience also, and that is why this year we will be putting in more effort than normal and working right throughout the night to be able to bring you the experience through the wonderfull internet.
We will be creating daily videos of our journey which will be uploaded to youtube each night, aswell as adding live videos during the day to social media platforms.
Well also be creating a video for the whole trip to give you the full experience right from your home.
Dates booked Feb 20th 2020 we leave the UK for Japan.
Day 1 in the mountains.
Youtube Video
After a long journey to Japan we finally arrived arrived at Yamakoshi around 3.45pm.
We didn't have much time remaining to buy any fish today. But we called in to see Maruhiro Koi Farm to see what stock he had available and to bowl up 2 Showa we left to Azukari that we bought last year.
A good nights sleep was needed to Recover for the morning ahead of us.
Day 2 we had arrangements to visit Yagenji Koi Farm where we was able to Hand select his Tosai.
We selected 3 ponds in total. Some smaller Tosai and some big Tosai.
After lunch we took a drive over to the other side of the mountains to visit Ozumi Ikarashi where we hand selected some lovely Nisai.
We then headed to see Marusei Koi Farm and made arrangements with Yoshiyuki Hirasawa to visit him sunday morning. This breeder never stops he work every day.
We also Called to see Manabu from Yamazaki Koi farm to look at his stock, which is safe to say that its overwhelming.
Back here monday morning to hand select Nisai.
Youtube Video
We selected 3 ponds in total. Some smaller Tosai and some big Tosai.
After lunch we took a drive over to the other side of the mountains to visit Ozumi Ikarashi where we hand selected some lovely Nisai.
We then headed to see Marusei Koi Farm and made arrangements with Yoshiyuki Hirasawa to visit him sunday morning. This breeder never stops he work every day.
We also Called to see Manabu from Yamazaki Koi farm to look at his stock, which is safe to say that its overwhelming.
Back here monday morning to hand select Nisai.
Day 3 Sunday morning and we headed to Marusei koi farm to see Yoshiyuki and hand select through his tosai.
As always this is no easy task, his ponds are full of koi. We selected two lots of Nisai and then started bowling some sansai and yonsai.
We ended up spending the whole day here.
The pictures below speak for themselves of the quality of the koi available at Marusei this year.
