Orchard Spots in Yamanashi Area

  • Toyotamaen
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Fuefuki-shi Isawacho Hatta 397
    10 minutes from the Katsunuma Interchange and the Ichinomiya-Misaka Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. This cozy tourist farm has been featured on TV and in newspapers and other media. All of the farm's fruit trees are raised organically with heavy fertilization usage, and the farm publicly discloses its cultivation records, ensuring its fresh grapes and perfectly ripe peaches can be eaten in peace of mind. Here visitors can enjoy peach picking from the end of June to mid-August, and grape picking, including varieties found in only a few places on the planet, from August to early November. Customers are encouraged to first cool the fruit they have picked in the icy waters of the farm's spring welling up from 160 meters underground, which makes them even tastier. Small groups do not require an advance reservation.
  • Asakawa Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Kamiimasuwa 1364
    This family-operated tourist farm is located about a ten-minute drive from Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. It grows Sato Nishiki, Benishuho, Yamagata Bijin, Takasago, and Benika cherries with organic fertilizer and reduced agrochemicals. Guests can enjoy eating all the cherries they can pick for 40 minutes. Signs indicating which of the five varieties each tree and a menu board that lists the characteristics of each variety this makes it easy to enjoy comparing each variety. The pet-friendly farm's greenhouses assure that you can enjoy cherry picking rain or shine. The farm sells cherries to take home and also sells peaches starting in July.
  • Sakuranbo no Hara Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Kamiimasuwa 1407-5
    A five-minute drive from the Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. Here at this tourist farm visitors can enjoy picking cherries lovingly grown by staff with over 30 years of experience. The farm rotates between four orchards and limits the number of customers in a given day, ensuring you'll be able to pick cherries in the very best of conditions. The farm grows popular Sato Nishiki cherries as well as Beni Shuho, Takasago, and Napoleon, plus new varieties such as Kai Ruby. The farm's cherries also grow close to the ground, making it easy even for wheelchair users and children in strollers to pick them right from their seat. The farm is open from late May to mid-June.
  • Kiyoshi Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Nishino 1024
    A tourist farm where you can pick fruits carefully cultivated so that you can enjoy them at their most delicious. Cherry picking is offered from late May to late June, and for 40 minutes customers can eat all the Sato Nishiki, Beni Shuho, and other cherry varieties they can pick. 60-minute all-you-can-eat Kyoho and Kaiji grape picking is available from late August to October. Both cherry and grape picking require an advance reservation. Pets permitted. The farm also sells cherries and grapes as well as Hakuho and other peach varieties, sweet persimmon varieties such as Fuyu, and semi-dried persimmons.
  • Marutakara Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Nishino 94
    A three-minute drive from the Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. This tourist farm has been growing produce for more than 30 years and offers cherry and peach picking. In order to enhance the natural strength of its fruit trees and produce fruit that is bigger and sweeter, the farm is dedicated to organic fertilizer and reduced agricultural chemical usage. The farm's fruit trees are grown in dedicated houses, ensuring it can be picked even on rainy days, and visitors can freely pick the same high class cherries the farm offers for home gift delivery (advance reservation required). The farm grows several cherry cultivars, but 80% are the popular Sato Nishiki and Beni Shuho varieties. Visitors who have a ticket from last year can also receive a discount.
  • Tsukaharayama Fruit Farm Fukasawa
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Tsukahara 322
    A 10-minute, four-kilometer drive from the Minami-Alps Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. From June to the end of November, visitors to this tourist farm can enjoy picking cherries, Japanese pears, apples, persimmons, and other fruits. The farm is particularly dedicated to reduced pesticide usage. Visitors can pick several different fruits at once, up to five in September. The farm's own original Japanese plum cultivar, called Sumomo Rio, is available in July. The farm's apples, decorated with names and designs by using stencils and UV rays to color them, are particularly popular. Cherry picking is all-you-can-eat, while picking of other fruits is based on a buy-what-you-take system. Advance reservation required.
  • Seichoen
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Dodo 2432
    A five-minute drive from the Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. This tourist farm specializes in grown two varieties of cherry - the large and highly sweet Sato Nishiki and Takasago. The farm's cherries have a simple, natural flavor and are grown with reduced agricultural chemicals, making them very safe to eat. Approximately 70% of the farm's trees are the popular Sato Nishiki variety, with early-growing trees fruiting from early June and the rest reaching their peak around mid-June. Grown in greenhouses, visitors can enjoy picking even on rainy days. Many of the trees' branches are low to the ground, ensuring even children will find plenty of tasty cherries to pick without needing a ladder. Pets also permitted. In addition, the farm sells peaches, Japanese plums, grapes, and persimmons, and other fruit.
  • Cherry Garden Arashi
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Dodo 3074
    A five-minute drive from the Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. Here at this tourist farm visitors can enjoy picking safe and healthy cherries grown alongside beneficial undergrowth with an abundance of organic fertilizer using organic cultivation techniques. The trees are widely spaced, ensuring they receive good light and that even the cherries grown at easily reachable heights are plump and sweet. Open from early to late June, the farm's cherry varieties include Takasago, Sato Nishiki, Fuji Akane, and Beni Shuho. Folding plastic roofs ensure visitors can have fun cherry picking even on rainy days. Strollers and pets also permitted. Advance reservation recommended. In addition, the farm sells cherries for giving as gifts.
  • Nishimura Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Dodo 311
    A five-minute drive from the Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. At this tourist farm, visitors can enjoy cherry and peach picking while taking in views of Mt. Fuji, the base of the Southern Japan Alps, and the Yatsugatake Mountains. Cherry picking is offered from late May to late June. The farm rotates between four orchards and limits the number of pickers allowed, ensuring visitors can enjoy eating cherries at their very tastiest at their leisure (advance reservation recommended). Roofs over the cherries mean you can have fun cherry picking even on rainy days. Pets are allowed and the farm can accommodate strollers and wheelchairs. The farm's peach picking is offered from early July to early August and an advance reservation is required. In addition, the farm sells cherries, peaches, semi-dried persimmons, and jams direct.
  • Seijuen
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Dodo 3171-1
    This tourist farm is located about a seven-minute drive from Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. The farm practices environmentally-friendly agriculture that uses lots of organic fertilizer and minimal agrochemicals. The farm's location gives it views of Mt. Fuji to the south, the Southern Alps to the west, and the Yatsugatake Mountains to the north. Guests can enjoy picking cherries in a quiet environment away from the sound of cars and other noises. It is possible to eat and compare 10 varieties of cherries including Sato Nishiki, Takasago, Benishuho, and Koka Nishiki. The pet-friendly farm is open from early to late June. The retractable rain cover of its greenhouse assures that you can have fun picking cherries rain or shine. The farm also sells souvenir cherries to take home as well as mail order cherries.
  • Fukien
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minami-Alps-shi Dodo 3521
    This tourist farm is located about a five-minute drive from Shirane Interchange on the Chubu-Odan Expressway. Visitors can enjoy picking cherries grown with organic fertilizer and minimal agrochemicals. The farm has four cherry orchards each planted with between 50 to 90 trees on up to nearly 2,000 square meters. The farm grows many different varieties of cherry including the ever-popular Sato Nishiki and Takasago as well as Koka Nishiki, Toyo Nishiki, Benishuho, and Rainier. Although the specific varieties available depend on the season, there are always several to eat and compare. The farm is covered, so it can be enjoyed even on rainy days. It is open from late May to late June. Cherry picking requires a reservation.
  • La France Masuho Mochizuki Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Minamikoma-gun Fujikawacho Saishoji 2201
    A tourist farm on a hill overlooking the Kofu Basin, Mt. Fuji, and Mt. Yatsugatake, where visitors can experience picking pears such as La France. It takes about a month from harvest to ready-to-eat time, but we prepare the pears fully ripened in advance, so visitors can sample and compare two or three varieties at any time after enjoying the harvest. From September to November, the farm sells not only pears but also persimmons and other fruits. In the off-season, jams, juices, and other processed products are sold.
  • Nicolo Vineyard & Berry Garden
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Hokuto Oizumicho Nishiide Ishido 8240-79
    A tourist farm located seven-minutes from the Nagasaka Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. Located on a gentle south facing slope nearly 5000 square meters in size they grow five types of blueberries, two types of grape, gooseberries, red currants, black currants, and raspberries. You can purchase different containers for each fruit and take away as many as will fit. Depending on season you can pack many different types of berries into the containers and if you check the harvest season before coming you can have fun tasting and comparing the different berries.
  • Akeno Tourist Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Hokuto Akenocho Asao 5259
    Visitors to this tourist farm can pick tasty agricultural produce grown in the area's unrelenting sunshine and surrounded by its abundant natural beauty. Akeno-cho, where the farm is located, is a highland area known for receiving the longest hours of sunlight in Japan. Among other things, the farm primarily grows mineral-rich, non-astringent Amawarabi cherries; Sato Nishiki cherries, considered the standard for sweet cherries; blueberries perfectly balancing sweetness and tartness; edamame green soybeans with a delicious flavor that's a little different from standard varieties; Irish cobbler potatoes and Kita Akari potatoes which taste great even raw; and sweet potatoes renowned for their sweetness, full flavor, and fluffy texture.
  • Blueberry Akeno Farming Association Group
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Hokuto Akenocho Asao 5638
    A tourism farm located around 15 minutes from the Chuo Expressway Sutama Interchange. From mid-June to mid-August you can enjoy all you can eat blueberry picking. They have 4000 blueberry bushes covering 13 different varieties spread over a vast area nearly 2.5 hectares in size. Each type has its own personality from Spartan Blueberries which grow as large as 100-yen coins to the irresistible sweet and sour Brigitta blueberries. In addition to the fresh blueberries they also sell frozen blueberries, soft-serve ice-cream, hand made jam, and saplings.
  • KEEP Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Pref. Hokutoshi Takanechoukiyosato 3545
    The Seisenryo Jersey Farm is an environmentally friendly dairy farm that practices pasture-raising of Jersey cows in a recycling-oriented manner. There is also a café-restaurant with a natural menu using local ingredients and organic Jersey milk from the farm, and a farm store where you can buy souvenirs and Seisenryo soft serve ice cream.
  • Shukuzawa Fruits Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Pref. Koushushi Enzanshimohagihara 2104
    This orchard is located a three-minute drive from Enzan Station on the JR Chuo Line. Guests can enjoy picking a number of carefully-selected varieties of cherry from the end of May, as well as plums from the end of June and grapes starting in August. When harvests overlap, the orchard also offers discounts for picking two types of fruit. We recommend the all you can eat while seated option.
  • Maruyama Fruit Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Pref. Koushushi Enzanushioku (Peach/grape hunting is Yamanashi city Ochiai 283)
    A place to enjoy picking cherries, peaches and grapes, Maruyama Fruits Farm makes efforts in organic methods and reduction of pesticides, so you can enjoy safe, secure fruit-picking. And since it is located at the foot of Mt. Fuji, you are treated with a grand view of the magnificent Mt. Fuji. There are valuable coupons available on their homepage, so be sure to check before you go.
  • Kubotaen Grape Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Pref. Koushushi Katsunumachoukatsunuma 1611
    This grape farm offers more than 40 varieties of grape for customers to pick. Admission is free, and no reservation is required. You can even bring your pets! Rather than all-you-can-eat, customers are able to sample the farm's many varieties of grape and then pick their desired amount of any of the varieties on offer.
  • Grape Farm Kojuen
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Pref. Koushushi Katsunumachoukatsunuma 3245
    This grape farm is a five-minute drive and a 30-minute walk from JR Chuo Line Katsunuma-budokyo Station. From July to November, visitors can enjoy picking many different grapes varieties including Delaware and Kyoho. The farm's restaurant offers a number of options such as barbeque grilled on a volcanic rock plate and hoto noodles. Guests can also taste and buy their original wines at the farm's shop.

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Yamanashi prefecture is the proud home of one of Japan’s most celebrated icons: Mount Fuji. Although the mountain straddles both Yamanashi and Shizuoka, the most breathtaking views of Fuji-san can be seen from the Fuji Five Lakes north of the mountain in Yamanashi prefecture. The plethora of outdoor activities in and around the lakes all have the benefit of the country’s highest mountain as their backdrop, and we can assure you that it is an unforgettable sight.

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