First stop today was at sukuma, a very good showa breeder he also has gin rin showa sanke shiro a few kohaku.

we were able to hand pick through the tossia and 4 box's were bought the first being for one of the party;s koi club grow and show.

the following 2 box's have been bought for stock.

a few pictures of sukuma's farm

After taking us out for a curry  they drove us to Hiroi's farm

Here 3 customers bought koi another was bought to fill an order for a customer in the uk.

After this we were taken to the train station were we headed for nagaoka and the mets hotel. where we dumped are bags in the rooms went off for some much need food.

Day 3