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Oshino Hakkai Ikemoto Shop

Shopping

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Oshinomura Shibokusa 354

This souvenir shop is located about a ten-minute drive from Yamanakako Interchange and about a 20-minute drive from Kawaguchiko Interchange. It is immediately next to both the Oshino Hakkai and Oshino Hakkai Iriguchi bus stops. The shop is convenient for people visiting Mt. Fuji, Oshino Hakkai, and other tourist destinations in the area. Their specialty is kusa mochi, which are made and grilled right at the shop. These extremely popular mugwort-flavored rice cakes are made with underground water from Mt. Fuji and flavored with two varieties domestic mugwort. In the spring the shop also sells sakura mochi (rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf), a seasonal exclusive. We also recommend their soft-serve ice cream, which comes in flavors including white peach and Hakkai Ramune. Lavender flavor is also available during certain parts of the year. The shop also offers sakes not available anywhere else.
PAPER MOON

4.0

85 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunyamanakakomura Hirano 481-1

This quiet and relaxed cafe and sundries shop just for adults on the shore of Lake Yamanaka lies off the beaten path. It offers items such as dried flowers and antique goods, as well as a selection of cakes which are also available as takeout. Children under the age of 10 years old are not welcome here.

They do not allow kids under 10, but they also do not allow takeaway of the apple pies. That’s ridiculous! So for those have kids under 10, NO Need to come if you want to try the apple pie!
Craft no Sato Dallas Village

3.5

3 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunyamanakakomura Hirano 479-29

This resort-style facility sitting on over 8,200 square meters of land with a magnificent view of Mt. Fuji is a great place to enjoy a day eating and playing. Its craft workshop offers 10 hands-on activities including glass blowing, and pottery, as well as herbarium and soap art making. It also offers a barbeque restaurant that can be enjoyed rain or shine, as well as activities suitable for small children, making it a fun destination for families.

山中湖のいつものコーヒー：ノアが、やってなかったので、湖畔周遊道路沿い。昔、子供たちがテニス合宿で民宿がある場所御殿場寄りのところで、ガラス細工工房兼レストランです。天井が高く、午後のコーヒーを飲む。チキンとケーキを食し、今度、山中湖に来たとき、食事したいです。店が開放的で、テラスも利用できそうです。
Odakyu Yamanakako Forest Cottage

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Hirano 491
Asahigaoka Lakeside Greenspace Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunyamanakakomura Hirano

This quiet green space park on the shore of Lake Yamanaka is well-known as for its flowers and its autumn foliage. It is home to flowering trees such as hydrangea and Fuji cherry blossoms, as well as many deciduous trees including zelkova and maple. The park features a promenade where visitors can enjoy taking a walk while viewing the beautiful nature. Each year during the autumn foliage season, the park holds the Yuyake no Nagisa (sunset beach) autumn foliage festival.
Teuchi Soba Yamasato

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunyamanakakomura Hirano 115

This soba noodle restaurant is located along the Doshi-michi (National Route 413) in Hirano, Yamanakako Village, Minamitsuru County. It offers handmade soba noodles prepared by combining stone-ground buckwheat flour made with buckwheat grown by contracted farmers in Urabandai Oguni and spring water from Mt. Fuji a high vanadium content. Guests can try their nihachi soba (soba noodles made from a 8:2 blend of buckwheat and wheat flour), inaka soba (dark soba noodles made with coarse-ground buckwheat flour), ten-seiro (cold soba noodles served with tempura), kamodashi seiro (cold soba served with duck in a warm broth), or yubadashi seiro (cold soba served with tofu skins in a warm broth). After their meal, guests can enjoy the restaurant's kokuto kuzumochi, a chilled sweet made from kudzu powder, brown sugar, and Fuji spring water.
Fuji Oshino Berry Land

5.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunoshinomura Shibokusa 1666-56

This fruit farm is in Oshino Village, Minamitsuru County, Yamanashi Prefecture. It offers an up-close view of Mt. Fuji while you enjoy all-you-can-eat ripe strawberries, grown organically with Fuji spring water. From July through September they offer blueberry harvesting as well, and it's a popular spot with family sightseeing.

Was staying around Fujiyoshida, lucky manage to find out there is a straw berry farm in this area. Else i might have to travel further away just to visit a farm. Reach there and there was totally...
Ishiwari-jinja Shrine

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunyamanakakomura Hirano

This shrine located along the Mt. Ishiwari hiking course is said to grant prayers for better fortune, protection against misfortune, driving off evil spirits, and good health and longevity. It enshrines a large stone with cracks in the shape of the Chinese character for stone. This stone has long been thought to grant good luck to people who pass three times through its gap, while the water that seeps from the stone's cracks is believed to have miraculous effects on eye and skin maladies. This has earned the shrine a mystical reputation as well as many visitors.
Yamanakako Village Public Campsite

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunyamanakakomura Hirano 506-296

This campsite located in a quiet forest in the foothills of Mt. Fuji is operated by Yamanakako Village. The well-equipped campsite features four blocks of tent sites with room for up to 100 tents, a management building that also serves as a lodge, toilets, a cooking building, and more. It also organizes events including hands-on craft activities, stargazing, night walks, and more. Although you cannot park next to the camp sites, hand carts are available for carrying your luggage from the parking lot.
PICA Yamanakako

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Hirano 506-296
Yamanakoko Public Library for the People's Creativity

Life / Living / Hospital

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunyamanakakomura Hirano 506-296 Lake Yamanaka Information Creation Center

"The Yamanakako Public Library for the People's Creativity is located just a two-minute walk from the Bungaku no Mori Koen Mae bus stop and near the Lake Yamanaka Tourist Information Center. Only registered users may borrow books. In addition to a photocopying service that anyone may use within the limits of the law, the library also gives users advice on using computers and the internet. Its many programs include a children's story hour and having readers select books for literary prizes. It is also possible to check out ""good luck books,"" the content of which is not revealed until the user borrows it."
Nashigahara no Fuji-zakura

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura

This famous spot for cherry blossoms is located along National Route 138 near Lake Yamanaka. It is about three kilometers and about 10 minutes from Yamanakako Interchange on the Higashifuji-goko Road via National Route 138. The 10,000 Fuji cherries (Prunus incisa) bloom between late April and early May each year. This hardy wild variety of cherry blossom has smaller than other cherry blossoms and does well in cold weather and grows well even at high altitudes. So-named because they are common around Mt. Fuji, they can be enjoyed a bit later than flatland cherry blossoms.
Yamanakako Marine House Momo

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Yamanaka 212-5

This recreational facility is located about a five-minute drive from Yamanakako Interchange on the Higashifuji-goko Road. Visitors can enjoy a variety of leisure activities at Lake Yamanaka. Fishing for Japanese pond smelt on the heated and toilet-equipped houseboat is an especially popular activity that can be enjoyed from September to June. We recommend that beginners choose the package that includes all the necessary equipment and an instructor. Sport fishing for black bass and other species can be enjoyed from the spring to the fall. A variety of different ways to enjoy the charms of Lake Yamanaka all year round are available including wakeboarding, water skiing, banana boats, parasailing, rental bicycles.
CHIANTI CoMO

4.0

62 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Yamanaka 213-7

This Italian restaurant is located on the shore of Lake Yamanaka about a four-minute drive from Yamanakako Interchange on the Higashifuji-goko Road. The name comes from Lake Como in Northern Italy. Every seat in the restaurant has a view of Lake Yamanaka. The restaurant has a menu with more than 110 dishes including a number of original dishes with a Japanese twist made with local ingredients. The restaurant is especially proud of its house dressing, which features a blend of 16 ingredients. Many repeat customers come just to have a salad with this dressing on it. We also recommend their authentic brick oven pizza, which is made with carefully-selected flour and an original blend of fresh cheeses.

This place is legit. We’ve been in Japan now for a week, and we stumbled across Chianti Como. Best meal we’ve had yet. Understated, but tight kitchen. Had the Caesar salad and funghi pizza...
Yamanakako Yacht Harbor

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Yamanaka 232-7

This century-old marina on Lake Yamanaka was the lake's first pleasure boating company. It is notable for having them largest number of boats on the Five Fuji lakes. Visitors can enjoy marine sports such as yachting or riding banana boats or personal watercraft. The marina offers a variety of fun activities suited for people of different experience levels. The marina offers have trial courses with an instructor as well as classes that can accommodate both individuals and large groups. You can book the entire marina for a private event. It also has a barbecue plan.
Tsuchiya Co.

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Yamanaka 90

This company rents boats on Lake Yamanaka and provides light meals. From September 1 to June 30, customers can fish for Japanese pond smelt from one of the company's domed boats. The company's boats are heated, ensuring customers can enjoy fishing in comfort even in the middle of winter. Also great is the kind of attention to detail only a long-standing company such as this can provide, including comfortable, adjustable seats, electric reel rentals, and fishing guidance. Customers can also enjoy bass fishing year round. In addition, customers can have sashimi and other food in the company's houseboats and watch the fireworks of the Hoko Festival from the surface of the lake.
Koshu Cellar Rinka Fujitaya Yamanaka Shop

Shopping

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Yamanaka 99

This venerable wine shop is located along National Route 138 near the northwest shore of Lake Yamanaka a short distance south of the carp statue. Established in 1927, it carries more than 200 varieties of Koshu wines, one of the biggest selections in the prefecture. The shop also carries many imported wines. The sight of more than 1,800 bottles that line its shelves is simply stunning. The high-quality wines it offers, which are carefully selected by its sommelier owner, include winners of the Japan Wine Competition. There are also nouveau wines with lower alcohol content as well as limited-issue seasonal wines.
WATER CRAB

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Hirano 1910

This establishment offering a variety of activities and rental services is located near Hirano Beach on the northeastern shore of Lake Yamanaka. Visitors can experience activities such as canoeing and standup paddle-boarding (SUP) together with an instructor. It is also possible to rent canoes (some experience is required), bass fishing rod sets, and other items. Standup paddleboards rentals are available from Golden Week to around the end of October. Although the Canadian canoe rentals are intended for experienced individuals, you can take your dog on board if you bring a life jacket for them! The shop also offers a program in which participants can make hoto, udon, and soba noodles.
Cafe & Auberge Rikyu

4.0

7 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Hirano 2408-1

A cafe and restaurant which also offers lodging situated on the northeast bank of Lake Yamanaka a short walk north from Higashi Elementary School via Marimo-dori Street. Guests can have meals in their room and customers can also eat outside. In addition, the establishment offers barbecuing in summer. The weekly cafe lunch special, limited to a set number of customers each day, is particularly popular. Other options include a pasta meal, your choice of one of three curries, and a risotto meal, and the fettucine with lobster cream sauce is also recommended. You can also have original pizzas here.

ランチで利用しました。暑かったので店内入りましたが、外は景色良くいいなぁと。コーヒーの味は普通ですが、スイーツ含め料理は美味しいです。トイレ等も綺麗です。
Fujiyama Bazaar Forest Station Asahigaoka Shop

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Hirano 506-296

Just an eight-minute drive from Yamanakako Interchange. The shop is inside the Forest Station Asahigaoka building located just in front of the Asahigaoka Bus Terminal. They sell special goods and sweets from around the Mt. Fuji area as souvenirs as well as special selected goods including snacks and sundries. When in the proper season they'll have corn on the cob as well as other vegetables grown by local farmers available for purchase. On the second floor they have KABA cafe offering original breakfasts as well as udon noodle soup and Hoto, a local noodle specialty dish.

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Yamanashi Areas

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.