Inside Japan's Most Insanely Expensive Fruit Parlor

After reading this I feel even more fortunate to live in Ontario's fruit belt. Our cantaloups may not wear hats but at least we can afford to eat them.

$69 for a twelve-pack of Queen Strawberries

Cherries for $159.50 per box ($4 per cherry)

Yubari cantaloups ($160 for one, or $265 for two)

Apparently there are fruit museums under every department store in Tokyo, where perfect melons probably sit behind velvet ropes and bulletproof glass. To protect the fruits from crazed gunmen?

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