Orchard Spots in Yamanashi Area

  • Katsuaki Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi
    This orchard located along the Fruit Line in Enzanshimohagihara, Koshu City cultivates various cultivars of cherries such as Satonishiki, Takasago and Kokanishiki, and you can enjoy cherry picking in the greenhouse during June. Plum picking is held in August, and grape picking in September (both are by reservation only).
  • Ryuta-en
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi
    A fruit farm located in Enzan-ushioku, Koshu City. The farm grows Beni Hoppe and Akihime strawberries using hydroponics and raised platforms, offering strawberry picking to visitors (advance reservation required). Visitors can also enjoy cherry picking here in June and grape picking from late August (also advance reservation required).
  • Marunaka Cherry Picking Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi
    A cherry farm located in Enzan-ushioku, Koshu City. The farm grows a variety of cherry cultivars, including Sato Nishiki, Koka Nishiki, and large-sized Nanyo. Open primarily on Saturdays and Sundays in June, here visitors can enjoy cherry picking (advance reservation required). The farm also sells its own cherries direct.
  • Otoya Uchida Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi
    This orchard located in Enzanushioku, Koshu City cultivates more than ten cultivars of cherries with high sugar content and rare high-quality varietes such as Satonishiki and Benishuho, and you can enjoy cherry picking from the end of May to the end of June. In addition, grape picking is held from late August to late September.
  • Fruit Garden Hosaka
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi
    This cherry farm located in Enzanushioku, Koshu City holds cherry picking during June, and you can enjoy cherries such as Benishuho and Satonishiki that are grown organically with minimal use of agrochemicals. Cherries and greenhouse peaches are also sold as souvenirs.
  • Sano Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi Enzan Nishi Nohara 328
    A fruit farm located in Enzan-nishinohara, Koshu City. Here, from mid-December to mid-May, visitors can go strawberry picking (advance reservation required). Customers can enjoy all-you-can-eat Akihime and Beni Hoppe strawberries for 30 minutes and are also allowed to bring their own chocolate sauce, whipped cream, ice cream, or other topping to have with their berries. The farm also offers peach picking from late June to late August (also advance reservation required).
  • Okuyama Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi Enzan Fujiki 465
    A fruit farm located in Enzan-fujiki, Koshu City. Using reduced amounts of agricultural chemicals, the farm grows strawberries as well as peaches, grapes, and persimmons. From January through late May, the farm offers strawberry picking. The farm's strawberries are grown in all-weather greenhouses using hydroponics and raised platforms, ensuring customers can enjoy strawberry picking without even having to bend over.
  • Korakuen
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi Katsunumacho Katsunuma 1584
    This grape farm is located in the Katsunuma area of Katsunuma-cho, Koshu City. Over 30 cultivars of grapes are grown on a vast site of 124,540 square feet (11,570 square meters). In addition to grape picking held from early August to early October, you can also enjoy barbecue at table seats set under the vine trellises.
  • Furuya Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi Katsunumacho Katsunuma 1743-3
    A fruit farm situated along Prefectural Route 214 in Katsunuma, Katsunuma-cho, Koshu City. The farm grows a variety of grape cultivars from around the world, including Delaware, Kyoho, King Delaware, and Pione, and here visitors can go grape picking from early August through mid-October. The farm's grapes are grown in greenhouses, ensuring you can go picking even in rainy weather; there is also no time limit on the farm's grape picking.
  • Sakamoto Grape Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi Katsunumacho Katsunuma 3033
    A vineyard located along Prefectural Route 34 in Katsunuma, Katsunuma-cho, Koshu City. They grow a variety of species of grapes including the high quality Tenzan grape, which boasts the world's largest size. The vineyard is open for picking from early August to early October.
  • Budogari no Jiyu-en
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi Katsunumacho Todoroki 150
    A grape farm situated on Prefectural Route 34 in Todoroki Katsunuma-cho, Koshu City. Primarily making use of organic fertilizer, the farm grows some 35 grape cultivars. Open from the end of July, the farm offers three grape picking courses which enable visitors to pick and enjoy a variety of seasonal grapes - a course which lets you purchase grapes by weight, a course which lets you pick as many grapes as you like, and an all-you-can-eat course.
  • Taigaen
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi Katsunumacho Todoroki 43
    A grape farm situated along Prefectural Route 34 in Todoroki Katsunuma-cho, Koshu City. Dedicated to reduced pesticide usage and organic cultivation, the farm grows around 40 to 50 grape cultivars from around the world. Visitors can enjoy grape picking here from August through early November. The farm also sells around 50 varieties of wines made in town, including wines in sho bottles (a traditional Japanese liquid unit equal to 1.8 liters), a local Katsunuma specialty product.
  • Uenoen Grape Picking Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Koshu-shi Katsunumacho Todoroki 680
    A grape farm located in Todoroki Katsunuma-cho, Koshu City. The farm grows around 10 varieties of grapes, such as Delaware and Kyoho, and is open from late July through late October. Visitors can enjoy grape picking. The farm also sells wines, grape juice, jams, fresh-picked peach preserves, and more.
  • Mochizuki Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Yamanashi-shi Yamane 1673-1
    This fruit farm is located along the Fruit Line in Yamane, Yamanashi City. The farm grows fruit tomatoes and 10 varieties of peach. Guests can experience tomato harvesting from April to May (reservation required) and all-you-can-eat peaches and peach picking from late June to mid-August. The farm also sells peaches and fruit tomatoes with various levels of sugar content at its farmers' market.
  • Miyamoto Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Yamanashi-shi Kamiiwashita 758
    This fruit farm is located along the Fruit Line in Kamiiwashita, Yamanashi City. The farm grows 10 varieties of cherry as well as Shine Muscat grapes. Cherry picking is from early to mid-June while Shine Muscat grape picking is from mid to late September. Guests can enjoy eating all the fruit they can pick for 40 minutes.
  • Nozawa Farm
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Yamanashi-shi Higashi 797
    A cherry farm located in Higashi, Yamanashi City. The farm grows over 10 varieties of cherries, including Sato Nishiki, Takasago, and Beni Shuho. Here visitors can enjoy cherry picking in greenhouses from mid- to late May and outdoors from early through mid-June on Saturdays and Sundays (advance reservation required).
  • Tsuruta Grape Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Yamanashi-shi Makiokacho Kurashina 4560-1
    This vineyard is located along Prefectural Route 206 in Kurashina, Makiokacho, Yamanashi City. It grows more than 20 varieties of grape including Shine Muscat, Kyoho, and Pione. Guests can enjoy sell-by-weight grape picking from late August to early October. The vineyard offers free samples of its grapes and also has a shop where it sells its grapes and organic vegetables.
  • Kubotaen
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Yamanashi-shi Horinai
    This fruit farm in Horiuchi, Yamanashi City grows a variety of cherries including Sato Nishiki, Takasago, and Jumbo Nishiki. Guests can enjoy cherry picking starting in late May as well as peach picking starting in early July and grape picking starting in late August.
  • Strawberry Farm Minai
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Nakakoma-gun Showacho Ikkui 466-1
    A 10-minute, 2.5 kilometer drive from the Kofu-Showa Interchange on the Chuo Expressway traveling towards Isawa on National Route 20. This tourist farm, situated in the center of the Kofu Basin, offers strawberry picking and sells its high class strawberries direct. The farm incorporates universal design principles and grows its strawberries using hydroponics and raised platforms, making it possible for visitors to pick strawberries without bending over and also ensuring wheelchair users and those with strollers can also have fun strawberry picking. Strawberry picking is available from late December to mid-May and an advance reservation is required. From June through early July, visitors can also pick corn and have fun in a giant corn maze made using some 12,000 corn stalks.
  • Fruit Garden Ichifuru
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Yamanashi Fuefuki-shi Ichinomiyacho Sueki 375
    This tourist farm is located about a five-minute drive from Katsunuma Interchange or Ichinomiya-Misaka Interchange on the Chuo Expressway. Guests can enjoy all-you-can-eat peaches and grapes. The peach picking season is from late June to late August. The two varieties of peaches on offer, Akatsuki and Hakuto, come into season at different times. The grape picking season is from mid-august to late September. The varieties of grapes on offer include Shine Muscat, Kaiji, Seedless Kyoho, Pione, and Bailey A. Since there are no time limits, guests can enjoy picking and eating fruit at their own pace. The farm also has an open terrace that seats about 50 people.

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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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