We visited five breeders today, and brought from Hirasawa & Oofuchi.
It snowed all day, making driving difficult and slow around the hills of Niigata.
The worse place to get to was Oofuchi koi farm where the snow was very deep and the breeder had to make a path into the koi house.
The snow was built up to over two metres high, but we managed to collect a good selection of 6 nice high quality koi.
The other koi we brought was from Hirasawa, 3 stunning Kujaku with some other high grade koi including a Hi Utsuri, 2 – Kin Matsuba and a Mizu Ogon.

Another long car journey out to meet Takahashi.
Pictures of his house & family, surrounding area with lots of snow built up in the last few weeks.
I selected some nice Tosai mix of Doitsu Kohaku, Kohaku, Showa, Beni Kumonryu and other koi.
I also brought two Kumonryu and a stunning Doitsu Sanke.
We have a hobbist with us who also had a busy time selecting Tosai for himself from a pond.

Tuesday the 10th – First thing in the morning we headed back on the trains to Tokyo, then another two local trains to the Kurryman.
Here you can see the breeder netting a whole pond for me to hand pick some very good quality Showa, Kohaku, Tancho Kohaku, Shiro Utsuri, Shusui, Hi Utsuri and Sanke. Sizes 15 – 22cm. Prices range from £48 – £95, this is due to quality and size.Plus most of the Shiro Utsuris are Female.
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After buying 50 mixed koi it was back onto the trains to Niigata for the rest of the week. We have been traveling most of the day, around 7 hours of catching and waiting for trains.Next day we hire a car to head for the Niigata coast area.