When I looked into this from what I could tell it’s not really that fruits and vegetables are more expensive in Japan. For the most part some are a little more some are a little less so it just varies like any other country.
However there does seem to be a caveat to that. Average prices might be higher depending on how you look at it due to this odd luxury fruit industry Japan has. Stores where fruit is individually inspected to be perfect then polished and packaged specially and then charged huge amounts for.
I was gonna say … If you only looked at the strawberries/apples/etc. that are individually packaged and traditionally given as gifts, then yes fruit would appear to be horrifically expensive
When I looked into this from what I could tell it’s not really that fruits and vegetables are more expensive in Japan. For the most part some are a little more some are a little less so it just varies like any other country.
However there does seem to be a caveat to that. Average prices might be higher depending on how you look at it due to this odd luxury fruit industry Japan has. Stores where fruit is individually inspected to be perfect then polished and packaged specially and then charged huge amounts for.
I was gonna say … If you only looked at the strawberries/apples/etc. that are individually packaged and traditionally given as gifts, then yes fruit would appear to be horrifically expensive