Ramune is a carbonated soft drink in a unique glass bottle (please click here for more details). More than 50% of all the ramune in Japan is produced in Ōsaka. They are making the ramune bottles the traditional way. It is not easy to make those bottles since it requires accuracy and careful inspections. Ramune is popular in many foreign countries, but instead of producing them in factories outside of Japan, ramune is produced in Japan according to each countries’ food regulations and then exported to 44 countries.
Besides the original and other traditional flavors, they are now making many odd playful flavors, such as kimchi, curry, stew, cream of corn soup, etc. The president of a major ramune production company says that there were flavors that they had to stop producing due to various reasons. For example, eggplant flavor cost too much to make, and onion flavor made workers cry too much while making it. lol
