Tokyo's love affair with Banana - Now on video!
What does Tokyo have to do with bananas?!
Kia ora Koutou, Tim Bunting, Kiwi Yamabushi here on the Japan you never knew you wanted to know.
First up, Tokyo and banana may seem to go together like chalk and cheese. Yet for the average Japanese person, it’s more like well, take your pick of these from Google:
Personally, I prefer ‘Sock’.
Either way, Tokyo Banana is a thing.
A VERY BIG thing.
Believe it or not.
How? Why? What did the humble banana do to become the official souvenir sweet of the world’s largest metropolis?
In this new video I find out so you don’t have to:
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