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Kaizokusen Pirates

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Pref. Higashibarakigunoaraimachi Isohamachou 8253

A sightseeing boat cruise operated by Oarai Shinsengumi which docks at the Oarai Town Fisheries Cooperative Wholesale Market in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture. Originally operated by Resort Outlet Oarai, after a change in the company which owns and operates it, the cruise began running again. The red and black tour boat, flying a pirate flag, leaves for a 30-minute round trip cruise on the Pacific Ocean from a dock close to Oarai Marine Tower. The exact course of the tour changes depending on circumstances, but tour-goers will get a sweeping view of Oarai from the sea. Seven tours are held every Sunday and on holidays.
Hobikibune Sailboat Cruises

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Pref. Tsuchiurashi Kawaguchi 2

Hobikibune are traditional fishing vessels which operate on Lake Kasumigaura close to JR Tsuchiura Station in Ibaraki Prefecture. Visitors can watch the boats plying their trade from cruise ships which depart from and return to the Port of Tsuchiura. This style of fishing was invented in Dejima Village in 1880. With the emergence of trawling boats around 1965, hobikibune disappeared, but today they have been brought back for tourists to watch as an important cultural legacy. Powered by a billowing white sail nine meters tall and 16 meters wide, the sight of these boats traveling crosswise to the wind is stirring. Note that the boats are operated from summer through fall.
Nakazato Leisure Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Pref. Hitachishi Higashigoudochou 1942-1

A tourist-oriented fruit farm located in the Nakazato district on the northern side of Hitachi City 15 kilometers from the Hitachi-chuo interchange on the Joban Expressway. Here visitors can enjoy picking apples, grapes, blueberries, and other fruit. The grounds enclose around 30 separate Eco Farmer-certified fruit farms, each of which allows tourists to go fruit picking. Visitors can pick apples from early September to early December, grapes from early September to early October, and blueberries from June to August. The individual farms also make their fruit available for sale and offer shipping.
Itako 12 Bridges Boat Tour

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Pref. Itakoshi Itako 109-12 tide boat boat association

"This tour, a local sightseeing staple, is situated seven minutes from the Itako interchange on the Higashi-Kanto Expressway. Tour-goers board a small boat and visit beautiful area bridges via a canal system. The canals, which span a section of the rice paddies sandwiched between the Tone River and the Hitachitone River are called ""enma,"" and the canal in the Katozu area is known for the simple, narrow bridges which span it, connecting house to house. The tour's small ""sappa-bune"" boats visit and travel under the 12 remaining bridges in the area. The tour leaves from Suigo Sawara Ayame Park, a park where various irises bloom and which bustles with visitors from late spring through summer."
Yaguchi Orchards

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Pref. Kasumigaurashi Shimotsuchida 477

A tourism-oriented fruit farm located close to the Chiyoda-ishioka interchange on the Joban Expressway. Sweet Japanese pears, grapes, Japanese chestnuts, and persimmons are grown organically on the farm's spacious 50 thousand square meter grounds, and visitors can enjoy the tastes of fall. The farm grows Kosui, Hosui, and Nitaka Japanese pears from around August 10 to September 30. The farm grows huge Kyoho grapes from August 20 to September 28. Chestnuts are grown from early September to mid-October, and persimmons from mid-October to late November. The farm offers all-you-can-eat Japanese pears, grapes, and persimmons. There's also a farm-fresh shop and visitors can enjoy fruit picking with their pets, as well.
Hobikisen Cruising Sailboat

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Pref. Kasumigaurashi Saka 4784 (boarding reception place)

These sailboats known as hobikisen ply Lake Kasumigaura. They were used for fishing on the lake from the Meiji to the Showa periods. The tour boats sail from the lakeside at Kasumigaura City, Tsuchiura City, and Namegata City. Visitors on the tour boats are easy to watch the sailboats moving across the lake with their large, billowing sails. The traditional net fishing done with these boats has been selected as a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
Daichi Shimotsuma Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Shimotsuma-shi Osagaya 90

A strawberry farm located 500 meters west of the Kujira Intersection on National Route 294. Once the plants begin to bear fruit, the farm uses no agricultural chemicals whatsoever, aiming to produce safe, healthy strawberries using only temperature and water management alone. From January to the end of May, the farm offers Tochiotome strawberry picking. The farm works to ensure everyone can enjoy strawberry picking. All of the farm's strawberries are grown using raised planters, making picking a breeze; the wide lanes between planters also ensure persons using wheelchairs and strollers can easily enter. The farm's shop sells its strawberries as well as strawberries for making jams, not normally sold in supermarkets; and tomatoes from Ishige Farm.
Yasato Kanko Kaju Kumiai

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Ishioka-shi Kakioka 5680-1

The Yasato area is blessed with a warm climate perfect for growing fruit and around 50 tourist farms can be found in the area. These farms grow strawberries, grapes, blueberries, Asian pears, persimmons, mandarin oranges, and a variety of other fruit, and visitors can enjoy fruit picking here year round.
Yamato Chestnut Orchard

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Kasumigaura Kamitsuchida 723

A chestnut orchard in Kamitsuchida, Kasumigaura City. Open from the first Sunday in September to mid-October, this tourist farm lets you gather your own chestnuts. It also sells raw chestnuts and chestnuts prepared in a pressure cooker.
Karatachi Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Kasumigaura Kamitsuchida 882

A farm in Kamitsuchida, Kasumigaura City. They grow pears, chestnuts, and sweet potatoes. You can pick, collect, or dig your own from mid-August to mid-October. They offer a service of chestnuts fresh-cooked over a wood fire for those gathering chestnuts.
Chiyoda Engei

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Kasumigaura Nakasaya 744-1Dai2 Hitachi No Park Mae

An orchard in Nakasaya, Kasumigaura City. They grow Kyoho grapes, chestnuts, and pear varieties including Kosui, Hosui, and Niitaka. In addition to offering fruit picking from mid-August to mid-October, the park also has barbecue facilities available for use with a reservation.
Okano Orchard

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Kasumigaura Ichiiida 232

An orchard in Iida, Kasumigaura City. They grow pears, grapes, and chestnuts. You can pick pears from mid-August to mid-October and grapes from early September to mid-October. You can gather chestnuts from mid-September to mid-October.
Tsukuba Farm

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Oda 2830

A farm in Oda, Tsukuba City. They cultivate and sell a high grade of koshihikari rice called Hitachiodamai that minimizes pesticide use through Chinese milk vetch farming, special cultivation, rice-duck farming, etc. They also hold annual agricultural workshops during the rice planting season in May and when harvesting in September.
Nakano Mushroom Farm

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Nakano 145

A mushroom farm in Nakano, Tsukuba City. They cultivate shiitake mushrooms on logs without the use of pesticides or herbicides. Besides picking shiitake in their vinyl greenhouse, you can have a barbecue at their on-site facility. Both require reservations.
Tsukuba Blueberry Yu Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi

A blueberry farm in Hakke, Tsukuba City. Dedicated to the succulence created by a balance of aroma, texture, and sweet and sour flavors, they grow about 50 varieties of safe, reliable, Eco Farmer certified blueberries. They hold blueberry picking from early June to late August, letting you eat freshly picked pesticide-freeblueberries on the spot.
Eureka Pleasure Boat (Kashima Port)

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Kamisu-shi Higashifukashiba 12

A sightseeing boat operating from Higashifukashiba, Kamisu City. During a roughly 45-minute trip around Kashima Port, one of the world's largest artificially excavated harbors, you'll see huge anchored tankers and factories along the coast. While only available for groups during the week, it's open to everyone on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays when it sails at 1:30 p. m.
Imahashi Kanko Fruit Orchard

Leisure / Hobbies

Ibaraki Ishioka-shi Obata 1959

An orchard on Prefectural Road 42 in Obata, Ishioka City. They grow grapes, strawberries, kiwi fruit, persimmon, and mandarin oranges. The area around Mt. Tsukuba is the northern limit of mandarin cultivation in Japan. They sell the fruit they grow and offer pick-your-own in season.
Itako Municipal Rowboat Cruise

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Itako-shi Ayame 1-5

Pleasure boats at Suigo Itako Ayame Garden in Ayame, Itako City. Reproductions of the traditional sappa boats used for transportation in the Suigo area operate during the Ayame Festival held every year from late May to late June. Night cruises are held on Saturdays.
Kasumigaura Park Nature Center

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Tsuchiura-shi Oiwata 145

A nature observation facility at Kasumigaura Comprehensive Park in Oiwata, Tsuchiura City. Located on the shores of Lake Kasumigaura, it has displays of freshwater fish from the lake and around the world. There's also a telescope for bird watching. In addition, it holds events such as the Suigo Marche on the second Sunday of each month as well as handicraft workshops.
Cormorant capture ground

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Pref. Hitachishi Juouchouishi 640

An eight minute drive from the Hitachikita Interchange. Located on “Cape Cormorant” in Juo-cho, Hitachi City, this area is the only location in the country where cormorants are captured for provision to other parts of Japan. The captured cormorants are provided to 11 cormorant fishing areas in the country such as the Nagara River in Gifu. The area is only open to the general public from January to March and from July to September, times when visitors will not obstruct the capturing of cormorants. A dedicated tunnel, containing informational panels on cormorants, provides passage to the cliffs where the cormorants are captured. Visitors can also learn about the ecology of cormorants and how they are captured by one of the capturers.

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Ibaraki Areas

Just a stone’s throw from Tokyo, Ibaraki is a coastal prefecture that has mastered juxtapositions, where old shrines meet new scientific discoveries and traditional gardens are frequented by the inventors of some of the newest technology. Head to Mito City's Kairakuen - one of Japan's Three Great Gardens - in spring to experience the cellestial blooming of fantastic cherry blossoms at the annual sakura festival.