Tokyo’s Aoyama shopping district, home to numerous luxury brand stores, hosts an open-air farmers market every weekend, finding favor with customers increasingly conscious about what they eat.
“Vegetables here taste just like those grown in my hometown in the countryside,” said 40-year-old Yuka Kubota, who comes to the market from Shibuya Ward once a week to buy vegetables directly from farmers.
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