Our new friend

We wandered past this little produce shop in Gifu, City. This is the owner. She came out to talk to us after I started taking pictures of her vegetables. She was very happy to show us her products.

She even had Will smell the delicious melon, which was 200 yen. (about $2)

It was funny! She also showed us some fresh ginger.

"Very fresh, very delicious. Ginger." That's what I assume she said

Here is the inside of her store. We bought some of these spiced cookie/cracker things. They smell good, like cinnamon and cloves. We almost bought $25 honey. We thought it was $5, but discovered it was much more at the checkout. So, we didn't buy it. She gave us a free tomato as a present. Then we left the shop with cookies in hand and a tomato, when suddenly she ran to give us an apple. She told us to come back. We will, if we can find it again. :)

This shop was located in this very big and bizarre indoor/outdoor mall
It has a wikipedia article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanagase

 We think that the mall is in the downtown area of gifu, and is a covered section of older streets that were too narrow for car traffic, but ok for pedestrian traffic. Then they converted it into a mall. So its very twisting and surprising, with a whole lot of narrow alleyway corridors and very many stores and restaurants. I am not sure we even saw very much of it today. Also, today was a national holiday in Japan, for the Autumn Equinox, so a lot of the stores were closing early. We are going to go back on Saturday and take more pictures.