Exactly how much are you willing to pay for a watermelon? $3? $4? $5? How about a hundred US Dollars? I know $100 is just too much to ask for a single watermelon. But do you know that in some parts of the world, specifically in Tokyo, Japan, a watermelon can reach up to thousands of dollars? Perhaps, you can just buy a flat screen TV or a new entertainment system for that price. But a watermelon? How on earth would it reach that price? Well, those kind of values you will only reach at an auction.
Last Friday, a Japanese watermelon was auctioned in Tokyo. But it’s not your ordinary watermelon. It’s color is black and it was sold for not just a thousand dollars but a whopping $6,100. An all time high! It is among the most expensive watermelons ever sold in Japan, or maybe in the whole univere. Watermelons and melons in general are said to be a luxury items in the country. These are great gifts given to dear friends and family. Imagine, even a pair of Yubair cantaloupe melons were also auctioned just last month and the price sold? Well, the cantaloupe melon pair was sold for only $23,500! Another record for Japan.
Going back to the black watermelon, this $6,100 fruit weighs 17 pounds. The black skinned watermelon is known as the Densuke watermelon. It is a rare fruit that grows only on the northern part of the Island of Hokkaido. So what is the difference? It’s still a watermelon, but it has a black skin. They say that it’s not the same. But perhaps your biggest question is, who on earth would actually purchase it at the price? Well, news said that it was a marine products dealer who won the fruit at the auction. According to local Kyodo News agency, the dealer simply wanted to support the local agriculture. The Densuke watermelon is actually valued at around $188 to $283 when you buy them at the supermarket.
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