“Sato railway station “Musashi” – Oita hot station”

Oita Godo Newspaper (evening edition on October, 6^th 2008)

         Vegetable arrangement at the entrance to the sky, the entrance of sky in Oita, at Oita airport is the aim for people who will get on the bus. The businessmen, families are taken on the bus and brought to the plane, the place near the airport entrance gate there are lots of intersections which from Sato railway station and Musashi is there. The header of the shop (55 years old) named Musashi, said that all the vegetables are fresh and directly brought from village farm such as Nasu, cucumber and so on. “We are trying the best to make kind of goods that can separated to other various kinds as an offerings ideas”, for example, pumpkin, if we see it normally it’s around 50 cm. heights but now they are trying to divide pumpkin in 7 kinds; by the vegetable special characteristic, it will be marked, then sold to customers with receipts without forgetting the respecting.

          Moreover, they also offer and guarantee that the quality (security) of the vegetables as their motto, the village farm families have the deeply communication to the result. For the people who buy their product if something happened, these vegetables are the natural products from the farm and friendly to the environment. The shop Musashi opens every month of the 1^st Sunday and it’s a good place for having meal with your family too.

  Comment:    It’s a good idea to have this kind of shop which sells everything from farms; it can support the living standard of agriculturalists and including supporting people health to get nutrition from fresh food.  Nowadays, we only go shopping in supermarket near our neighborhood but if we can get something which is new and fresh and the most important thing is good for your health (family) that is worth to visit this place named Musashi.

PUNTHUCHAT Siripun

Thailand

APS3, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University