{"id":669482,"date":"2025-07-13T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/tour\/669482\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T09:50:00","slug":"started-a-pizza-shop-at-70-years-old-in-the-mountains-of-hyogo-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/tour\/669482\/","title":{"rendered":"Started a Pizza Shop at 70 Years Old! In the Mountains of Hyogo Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Started a Pizza Shop at 70 Years Old! In the Mountains of Hyogo Japan\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RtHL-T0cYxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nStarted a Pizza Shop at 70 Years Old! In the Mountains of Hyogo Japan<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI start at 6:30. Today I&#8217;ll make 49 pizzas? No, maybe 53 pizzas. If I bake 53, it\u2019ll be around 4 p.m. Some customers wait for nearly two hours. I&#8217;m just baking non-stop. Because I can only bake one at a time. I prep here first. Then go inside an eat breakfast. For about an hour. Then I come back out and let it rise outside again. I let it rise at room temperature. I&#8217;m going to turn off the lights. Let&#8217;s go inside the house. Did you eat breakfast? Let&#8217;s eat, let&#8217;s eat. Seriously? Let&#8217;s feed the koi fish. The koi come so close. Here you go. This Koi fish is Taisho-san-shiki That&#8217;s a red and white koi. The water here bubbles up from below. The well is over there. We piped it from over there and brought it here. For normal households, about 10 health inspections are enough, but for restaurants, you have to clear all these requirements. Otherwise, you can\u2019t use it. It\u2019s incredibly good water. We cleared all the inspections all. Come in. Excuse me. We have to close the door so the cat doesn\u2019t get out. I used to run a Chinese restaurant. Did it for about 3 years. When I was 26. Had my own place in Tokyo. Then I worked in construction and it got bad, the company went bankrupt. I was scammed. Construction work is shady business. It\u2019s all about money. Everyone&#8230; has a different front and true intention. I\u2019m dumb, so I couldn\u2019t read their real intentions. Being in front of that oven all day is hot. It\u2019s about 500 degrees. Early in the morning, my wife and I get muscle cramps in our legs. It really hurts. More and more customers have started coming lately. From far away too. If I take a break, it\u2019s like I\u2019ll get pelted with stones. Can\u2019t take a break anymore. It&#8217;s like I\u2019m strangling myself. I\u2019d take time off but I&#8217;d feel guilty. During business, I\u2019d keep glancing around at my customers, thinking to myself; \u201cI haven\u2019t been to that table yet\u2026 not that one either.\u201d And I\u2019d feel like\u2026 just constantly apologizing in my heart. Really, I\u2019m sorry, I\u2019m sorry&#8230; It really gets to me. But then, the words that save me&#8230;come from my customers, they say, &#8220;It was worth the wait, I\u2019ll come again.&#8221; When I hear that kind of thing, I feel relieved. Like, they really weren\u2019t angry. Let&#8217;s eat. Go ahead. Back in the day, I drank until 2 or 3 a.m. And still went to work just fine. Now I\u2019ve got no energy. I built this myself. It took me 10 years. I started at 60, finished it when I turned 70. Started learning pizza at 70 and how to cook pizza. I thought maybe I\u2019d do a soba shop or something in retirement. But my wife said, \u201cThere are soba shops everywhere.\u201d Then I saw stuff online about stone ovens and pizza. It looked super interesting. I thought it would be really easy. But all year round, you have to adjust the water and the amount of yeast. All year round&#8230; It\u2019s hard. People make it at home just for fun. Those that use brick ovens, They heat up fast, but cool down fast too. This kiln here is from yesterday. Touch it, go ahead. Touch here. It&#8217;s warm. Put your hand in. Still hot, right? The other day someone took a bath in the Goemon tub over there before going home. Someone from Saudi Arabia did. They wanted to take a bath. They went in so happily. I boiled the bath, and once it cooled off a bit&#8230; It\u2019s still just 9:30. See how it\u2019s white around the edges? It turns like this. From soot. Once the temperature rises, that soot goes white again. That\u2019s called &#8220;soot clearing.&#8221; At the top the temperature is just over 500\u00b0C. The middle is about 450\u00b0C. This part here is best at about 350\u00b0C. He\u2019s does things at his own pace. He&#8217;s not really the type to try to please customers. Just his own pace. But he works hard. Even in his 70s. When he\u2019s at home, even if something\u2019s right in front of him, he\u2019ll say to me \u201cGet that! Grab that!\u201d So I say, \u201cGet it yourself!\u201d If you miss the first round, You never know when you\u2019ll get in next. Hello! We&#8217;re friends. Friends. Drinking buddies. Can I order more? Everything okay to order? Please! Here it comes! Pizza&#8217;s here! Pizza\u2019s here! Belle-chan! You&#8217;re in the cameraman&#8217;s way! Should we add honey? Yeah, the peach flavor is delicious. Here you go! What number? Number 3! Number 3, got it! Delicious. Just the two of you? That&#8217;s impressive! Wow. They argue over the smallest things. Like, \u201cHey you!\u201d And then he&#8217;ll raise a sake bottle over his head. Lifting it up like the&#8217;s gonna throw it. But Minako-san goes, \u201cDo it I dare you!\u201d Like, full-on showdown! And then he backs down, like a wimp. They&#8217;re a good couple. She really takes care of her husband. Just for a second. I\u2019ll take it to go. Hey, Belle-chan! Almost done. Let\u2019s keep at it! Hey sis, order up! Looks tasty! Ah, it\u2019s hot! Just a sec! Thank you! Thanks for the meal! It was delicious! So tasty! Super tasty! Delicious! Yum! So good! Cheesy and melty! Thank you! Excuse us! Alright! It\u2019s spilling everywhere! Sold out. Everyone still in line will get one. We carefully count the people waiting&#8230; We match up names with the list. Before, people just kept writing their names&#8230; And we\u2019d have to say, \u201cSorry, the dough\u2019s all gone.\u201d I hated that. We\u2019d really go under. But people wait so patiently. We\u2019re so grateful. Truly, thank you. Great job today.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDeep in the Mountains of Hyogo Japan this Pizza shop owner began his journey at 70 years old! He thought making pizza would be fun and rather than open a traditional Japanese restaurant he decided to take on pizza! 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