Why Japanese Melons Are So Expensive | So Expensive

From the Yubari King, to the Andes, the Higo Green Melon and many more. Melons are grown up and down Japan and they’re serious business. In May 2019, two melons from Hokkaido sold at auction for 5 million yen, that’s just over $45,000. So what is it that makes this fruit so expensive?

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Why Japanese Melons Are So Expensive | So Expensive

[michellek]

these melons grew up in a more loving home than I did

[osamaikram]

Me : I should study.
YouTube : why are melons so expensive?
Me : Good Question

[ryanporter]

Shiit these melons better be giving me super powers

[christopherramos]

Japan has perfected the art of making unimportant things extremely important and expensive

[oreosama]

Last night my family bought a melon and now we're living on the streets

[l.u.i.s._.]

Everywhere else: food

Japan: ✨aesthetics✨

[LioF]

They grow melons like their sons and daughters






And sell them

( 5:34 )

[Aragonaeranseventh]

Toyota so far seems the only Japanese thing with a reasonable price !!

[wehabagde]

Narrator: and they grow the melon like their sons or daughters.

The actual son and daughter: my dad left to take care of the melons when I was born, and I havent seen him since.

[azmayeenarafin]

Thief breaks into house

Me: protects melon at all cost

[ismailwarsi]

So this is why Doraemon and Nobita were so happy when their dad brought a melon home from work.

[eatswithjamie]

I tried some melons in Hokkaido. They weren't as expensive as the ones shown here, but the stands sold melons by the slices, ranging from $7 to $12 a slice. I went with one in the middle and it was incredibly good. I don't even like melons but it tasted like healthy Hi-Chew candy. It's difficult to express how good it was but Japanese fruit is just different.

[fionac]

Mom: study hard in school kids!
Kids: why?
Mom: so you can buy a $45, 000 melon when you’re older

[RM-fdlz]

Air conditioning??? Melons living better than me

[NarkarBros]

In India, 🍈 Melons cost at just $ 1 per Kg and those are extremely delicious too!

[tangieeee]

For my 18th birthday (years back) my mum and I took a trip to Japan and instead of having birthday cake, I bought a 5200 yen melon and carried it like a baby all the way back to Singapore. It was great, the best fruit I've had in my life and I still think about it from time to time. I've had other cheaper Japanese melons after and they were good, but didn't come close to the first one. Its hard to imagine a melon that can taste better than that. There is a point though where quality hits its max and the price you pay just isn't worth it anymore but it is difficult to find that point.

[kevinmai]

Why don't Melons get married?


They just Cantaloupe

[JuanMDiaz-rscf]

$45, 000.00?!!!
Are they watered with unicorn tears and fertilized with fairy crap?!!

[dr_outcast]

choose wisely:
1 22k melon
22 1k screen stand

[akrich]

I received a Melon for some celebration from colleagues. I told my French husband that the price of melon was more than 10, 000 yen ($ 85) after he made melon juice. He was astonished and asked me to do not tell my colleagues he made juice.