Daio Wasabi Farm - is the largest farm, raising wasabi in Japan. Wasabi is cultivated here since 1915. In order to grow the first root, it took ten years and two hundred workers. Area fields on the farm is 15 hectares.

Wasabi is often called Japanese horseradish, horseradish but this plant is not, even though they belong to one family. For its cultivation requires special conditions: a qualitative considered wasabi grown in cold running water in a half-submerged state. The water temperature should be 10-17 degrees. Before becoming a seasoning, the root grows three to four years. Properly grown wasabi is quite expensive, so outside of Japan very often under the guise of wasabi paste sold a mixture of mustard and dyes.

But in a restaurant on a farm Dayo can try the most that neither is true, properly grown wasabi (or hon-wasabi), and in the stores to buy multiple products with the addition of his, including beer, chocolate, sausages, ice cream and juice. In the food consumed not only the root of the wasabi, but also the stems and flowers.

On several large fields of economy laid a network of small canals that carry water to the plants. From May to October the plant is closed from the sun with special sheets.

Daio Wasabi Farm is very popular among tourists. On the sidelines of them arranged special walkways. Along the river you can see the water mill wheels that have been built specifically for the film "Dreams" by Akira Kurosawa - the episode "The village water mills." Spring and summer are available for tourists river trips on rafts.

On the farm there is a sanctuary built in honor of the ancient hero Hatim Dayo. He is considered the patron saint of the economy, which was named in his memory. The farm also found stone statue wasabi root.