After a rather downbeat event last year thanks to Covid it looks like they are trying for a bigger event this year. Hopefully by the autumn the vaccination efforts will have been ramped up considerably so that more exhibitors and visitors can attend, we did feel really sorry for the exhibitors that showed up last year as so much of their effort must have gone to waste with so few visitors.
So, it's got all the usual sections farming, gardening, livestock, packaging with industrialisation added on, smart zone (drones & IT) and my personal favourite the tool section and the usual seminars. As usual Makuhari Messe isn't well served for lunch with the one food court ram packed with long queues so grab something to eat in Aeon before heading into the event or after.
More information and ticket application can be found here
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Hopefully it will be a good one this year. Be sure to try the gelato machine
, last year because there were so few visitors they didn't mind if you had a whole bunch of samples. I think I tried all of the flavours they had on offer 


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Kabocha gelato is surprisingly good, komatsuna flavoured ice cream didn't work for me
Did you have a go at the log sawing competition ? Mrs Nouka actually put in a fairly respectable time but their champion was obviously a real pro.

Did you have a go at the log sawing competition ? Mrs Nouka actually put in a fairly respectable time but their champion was obviously a real pro.
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Man, I would love to go to this event, wish it was in November. Do you guys just go for 1 day and if so does that give you enough time to see everything?
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They have a Kansai event in the spring I think.
In a normal year a single day is usually enough to see everything, last year thanks to covid we did it in a few hours. A lot of stuff is geared towards big farms but still plenty for smaller farms and enough small start-ups with interesting new products and ideas.
In a normal year a single day is usually enough to see everything, last year thanks to covid we did it in a few hours. A lot of stuff is geared towards big farms but still plenty for smaller farms and enough small start-ups with interesting new products and ideas.
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Thanks, I will look into the Kansai event. Osaka is definitely easier to get to and spring isn't as busy a time for me.
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Here is a link for the kansai event
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Once you've registered you'll get invitations for many of their other events, some are interesting some not so much.
If you can get an invite to FoodEx that one is awesome, go on the last day and you can pick all sorts of stuff the exhibitors don't want to take home. I've come away with bottles of really nice Armagnac, Calvados, Shochu and packs of German sausage, swiss cheese as well as French and Italian wines. Mrs Nouka is too embarrassed to traipse around with me but luckily I have no sense of shame and to be honest many of the foreign exhibitors just seem happy to be able to speak to someone in English. One year we got so much Scottish smoked salmon that we ended up giving loads away as we couldn't eat any more and a friend of ours filled her apartment with mushroom growing kits cultivating all sorts of different exotic mushrooms
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Once you've registered you'll get invitations for many of their other events, some are interesting some not so much.
If you can get an invite to FoodEx that one is awesome, go on the last day and you can pick all sorts of stuff the exhibitors don't want to take home. I've come away with bottles of really nice Armagnac, Calvados, Shochu and packs of German sausage, swiss cheese as well as French and Italian wines. Mrs Nouka is too embarrassed to traipse around with me but luckily I have no sense of shame and to be honest many of the foreign exhibitors just seem happy to be able to speak to someone in English. One year we got so much Scottish smoked salmon that we ended up giving loads away as we couldn't eat any more and a friend of ours filled her apartment with mushroom growing kits cultivating all sorts of different exotic mushrooms

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I think I went to this 2 years ago when they held it in Yokohama? (or something similar) Was pretty neat, great for ideas.