Cooking at Kurokawa Onsen, selling high-quality craft juice yoin with tomatoes grown with leftover compost

In March, Kurokawa Onsen in Kumamoto Prefecture began selling "Minamioguni Tomato Juice YOIN," a craft juice made from tomatoes grown in ripe compost from leftovers from ryokan in the hot spring town. The publisher is the Kurokawa Onsen Tourism Ryokan Cooperative.

No additives, salt, or water are added to the tomato juice, and the tomatoes are made from the tomato brand "Momotaro" from Ino Agricultural Garden, which is located near the hot spring town. The ripe compost used for tomato cultivation is produced by the Kurokawa Onsen Tourism Ryokan Cooperative Association by mixing fallen leaves, rice husks, rice bran, red clay, etc. with cooking scraps and leftovers from each inn in Kurokawa Onsen. Akihiro Yasui, a circular economy researcher based in Amsterdam, and Jun Kamoshida, a composting advisor who runs a farm in Mitaka City, Tokyo, are working together to make the compost.

The tomato juice yoin (720ml) is priced at 3,024 yen and 3,348 yen with a gift box. Kurokawa Onsen Tourism Ryokan Cooperative and Kurokawa Onsen Online Store It is sold in.

Kurokawa Onsen is a hot spring resort in the Aso Mountains of Kumamoto Prefecture, visited by 1 million people a year. The scenery of the hot spring town in harmony with the natural environment and the bathing bill around the open-air bath are popular.