Gourmet&Food
Fri Feb 6,2015 12:00 pm

Original cherry vinegar of Ohashi Cherry Farms will be served in first-class in-flight meals, both for domestic and international flights from March this year.

Ohashi Cherry Farms
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Hokkaido February 6, 2015
Original cherry vinegar of Ohashi Cherry Farms will be served in first-class in-flight meals, both for domestic and international flights from March this year.

Ohashi Cherry Farms Ltd’s (http://www.oh-cherry.com) Representative Masakazu Ohashi, announces today Yellow Cherry Vinegar-Gassan Nishiki, which is manufactured from Yellow-Gassan-Nishiki cherries grown and picked at the farm, will be served in first class in-flight meals, both for domestic and international flights from March this year.


Yellow Cherry Vinegar-Gassan Nishiki is an authentic fruit vinegar manufactured from our cherries, Gassan-Nishiki, in the local vinegar brewing maker located in Sapporo City of Hokkaido.
By using long fermentation method, it is brewed and matured for a few years. It is then filtered, mixed with oligosaccharide, heat-treated and bottled.
Its mild sour taste adds a subtle touch to dressing for salad and pickles. Mixed with soda, it can also be enjoyed as a drink.
Since 2011 Ohashi Cherry Farms have sold a variety of fine vinegars manufactured from large size cherries Red-Nanyo, yellow cherries Yellow-Gassan-Nishiki, and the largest black cherries in Japan Black-Summit.
Cherries grown in Yamagata Prefecture are very well known in Japan. Due to the effect of global warming, however, it is said that Hokkaido is the best place to grow cherries. High quality cherries are grown especially in Ashibetsu city where Ohashi Cherry Farms is located, and which is the neighbour city of Furano, thanks to the usually very favourable weather in May for blossoming, and a large difference between day and night temperatures in July and August, that produces cherries high in sugars.
We have 50 years experience to grow cherries since our start in the mid 1960’s. We opened the first Pick-Your-Own orchard in Japan in 1970. Currently our business is focused on selling cherries directly to consumers mainly on-line, on top of the Pick-Your-Own business.
Our orchard is 47,000 square meters which is larger than Tokyo Dome. It is the largest cherry orchard in Japan. Since it is covered with rain seal, you can enjoy picking cherries in any kind of weather.
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Hokkaido February 6, 2015
Original cherry vinegar of Ohashi Cherry Farms will be served in in-flight meals of the first class both for domestic and international flights from March this year.

We grow more than 30 varieties of cherries, such as the famous Sato-Nishiki, Beni-Shuho, Nanyo, and Gassan-Nishiki, or rare species as the Napoleon which has been grown since the 18th century and was named by the king of Belgium in 1821 after the death of Napoleon; the Orihimeno-Kisetsu which is fragile in the cold, and the Hanakoma which it is said to be very difficult to grow, and we have in total about 1,500 cherry trees.
In July and August, when cherries are ripe and lavender is blooming, we have a lot of domestic and international visitors who also visit Furano and Asahikawa to enjoy Hokkaido’s vastness of nature.
We have started product development such as cherry bread, dried cherries, cherry biscuits since 2010, in addition to the Pick-Your-Own business, the mail-order services, and a production of cherry jam.
We developed cherry vinegar in 2011, cherry cheese tart, cherry pie, and pickled cherry in 2013, and cherry mayonnaise as well as cherry dressing in 2014. There is a wide range of products available.
Ohashi Cherry Farms will utilise the opportunity created by the selection of our cherry vinegar for in-flight first-class meals on international flights to advertise the cherries of Ashibetsu in Hokkaido and focus on selling food made with our cherries.

About Ohashi Cherry Farms
■Ohashi Cherry Farms
Company Name:Ohashi Cherry Farms Ltd.
■Representative: The second owner of the farm Masakazu Ohashi
■Opening month: Early July to End August
*Depending on harvesting season
■Location: 460 Kamiashibetsu-cho, Ashibetsu-shi, Hokkaido, JAPAN, Post code 079-1371
■Size of premises 47,000 square meters
■Varieties of cherry: 47 species
■Number of the planted tree: About 1,500

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Hokkaido February 6, 2015
Original cherry vinegar of Ohashi Cherry Farms will be served in in-flight meals of the first class both for domestic and international flights from March this year.

■Admission fee: 1,300 yen per adult (including junior high school students and over), 1,000 yen for primary school pupils, free for children under primary school age
*Additional charges may be applied for special species and depending on the harvesting season.
■Capacity about 1,000 visitors per day
■Parking: 500 spaces
■URL  http://www.oh-cherry.com

■Contact TEL:+81 (0) 124-23-0654
FAX:+81 (0) 124-23-2828
E-mail info@oh-cherry.com

Other useful links about our products and services
Video1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgj4gGemw1k
Video 2 http://p.tl/yti6
Video3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHo9BNhLUE
Website http://www.oh-cherry.com/
Official site http://www.oh-cherry.com/think
“Guide for pick-your-own cherries” http://p.tl/JcSh
“Product catalogue” http://p.tl/VGds
“The Philosophy of Ohashi Cherry Farms” http://p.tl/_NFk
“One year at Ohashi Cherry Farms” http://p.tl/RFye
“Pick-your-own Cherries” http://p.tl/9m_d