Japanese Pearl Farm Pictures

[dkan 168]

It doesn't bother me going into jewellery stores as I am usually well-dressed in jewellery sense, however, clothes and shoes shops, yes, as I am not a trendy stick insect

DK

 

[Ragnorak]

The farm is in Ehime Prefecture.

The place seems some how familiar. Then again much of the Ehime Ken coastline looks very similar. Can you say where the phots were taken?

 

[jshepherd]

Nope, not for dinner. This is the company Web site. The produce very fine akoya pearls.

http://www.akoya.bz/intro.html

 

[Owen Henderson]

Akoya Cultured Pearl Farms in Toba

Akoya Cultured Pearl Farms in Toba

I would just like to share with everybody a picture of the Akoya Pearl farms near Toba on the South Coast of Japan. The inventor of culturing pearls was from this area, Mikimoto, and there is a small island named after him which is home to a great pearl museum, which honours his contribution to the Japanese pearl industry.

There is also lot of great pearl shops along with rows of roadside traditional seafood resteraunts where you can pick the live oysters and sea snails from a tank and they will cook them for you as you talk with the locals.

 

[Johanna]

Thanks, Owen. It's beautiful and peaceful and looks like heaven on earth.