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Okayama City South Village

3.5

37 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Okayamashi Minami-ku Kataoka 2468

Okayama City South Village is an agricultural park located along Prefectural Route 22 in Kataoka, Minami Ward in the city of Okayama. It offers do-it-yourself crop picking, including strawberries, with the specific crops varying from season to season. Visitors can also experience the art of Tole painting. The park also contains a grassy lawn, a swimming pool that is open only in the summer, a karaoke facility, restaurants, and a lodging facility that is modeled after a Spanish farmhouse. The market is open 365 days a year and sells fresh farm products and freshly caught fish. A flea market is held in the park at regular intervals.

サウスヴィレッジの中にあるマーケットには地元の野菜をはじめ、たくさんの加工食品などが並びます。休日にはフリマなどが開催され、たくさんの人でにぎわいます。
Nomaru Engei Kibiji Farm

4.0

21 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Soujashi Nishigori 411-1

This agritourism farm is located along Prefectural Route 270 in Nishigori, Soja City. Besides having the prefecture’s largest strawberry picking field, you can experience blueberry picking, potato digging, interacting with animals, barbecues, and making pizza in stone kilns. In addition, there are gourmet facilities such as a cake workshop using fruits from the farm and a buffet restaurant, and a direct sales store for agricultural products.

We drove out on a day trip from Kurashiki and arrived after around 45 minutes. The carpark was packed but staff were on hand to guide vehicles into the appropriate lots. The lotus root croquette at...
Mimasaka Farm

4.0

18 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Mimasakashi Oku 585-1

This agritourism farm is located along National Route 374 in Oku, Mimasaka City. You can enjoy strawberry picking from early December to early June, and grape picking from mid-August to mid-October. In addition, there is also an adjacent direct sales shop that sells freshly harvested strawberries and grapes.

ちょっと所要で、岡山を縦断中にたまたま見つけた… イチゴ＆ぶどうの「美作農園」この季節はぶどう狩りと共に、ぶどうも商品として売られていて、試食し放題♪ いろんなブドウを試食して、マスカットはアレキサンドリアとシャインを食べ比べ❤︎ 実はアレキサンドリア、ヨーロッパ原産種なので気候の関係で栽培が難しく、最初は岡山でしか育てられなかったんだよ( ・᷄ὢ...
Yasutomi Farm

4.0

7 Reviews

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Okayama Pref. Okayamashi Kita-ku Shimoashimori 402-3

Yasutomi Farm is located in Shimo-Ashimori, Kita Ward, in the city of Okayama. In addition to trying their hand at rural activities like milking cows, making butter, or making ceramics, or holding a barbecue, there is a shop on the grounds where visitors can buy soft-serve ice cream, gelato, or hard ice cream made from the milk of the farm's cows. The Farm Festival held several times each year, features sales of beef, vegetables, and processed foods produced by local farmer, in addition to a flea market.

細い道路を登ったらたどり着きます。600円のパフェを頂きましたが、もう少し果物があればうれしい。ジェラートはさっぱりとした甘さがあり大変おいしかった。
Nomaru Engei Akaiwa Farm

4.0

1 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Akaiwa-shi Kamiichi 175-1

"A three-minute walk from the ""Shimoichi"" bus stop on the Uno Bus leaving from JR Seto Station. This tourist farm's facilities include strawberry picking patches, a large dog park, and barbecue ground. The farm's strawberry picking greenhouses are some of the largest in the prefecture; using raised planters, customers can pick strawberries without bending over and eat and compare up to six different varieties of strawberries. The farm is also designed to accommodate wheelchair and stroller users. The farm's market sells fresh vegetables and fruit grown organically and without the use of agricultural chemicals, as well as a wide variety of foods. The market also sells takeout desserts and gardening supplies and is adjoined by a spacious barbecue ground."

ぶどうを買いに行きました。観光農園・バーベキューブース・農産物直売所・無料の休憩所・ドッグランなどがある、大きな施設です。贈答用だけでなく、お値打ちなぶどうや珍しいぶどうもありました。
Seto Ohashi Bridge Cruise

4.0

4 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Kurashiki-shi Kojimaekimae 3-23

A five-minute drive from the Kojima Interchange on the Seto Chuo Expressway. Come and take a sight-seeing cruise launching out of Kojima Kanko Port with no prior reservations needed. You can see some of the various large and small islands of the Seto Inland Sea and get an up-close look at the amazing Seto Ohashi Bridge. The cruise takes you from the Kojima Kanko Port to Yoshima Island while looking at the cable-stayed bridge towards Hitsuishi and Iwakuro Islands to the right, turns around on the northern shore of Yoshima Island and then returns to the port passing directly under the truss bridge and cable-stayed bridge. The trip takes approximately 45 minutes. They also have tours where you can see the evening view of the Seto Ohashi bridge and the factory night skyline and even a special New Year's cruise to see the first sunrise from the water (all require reservation).

5月の連休後の平日に行ったので、3人以上集まらないと出航しないため(予約はできない)だめかなと思っていたが4人になったので乗れました！10:00から1時間毎に3時迄出航予定ですが3人以下ならでません。その点が不便だと思いますが、土、日曜、祝日は結構集まるらしい。45分間で児島港から鷲羽山を見上げ松島と釜島の間を通り与島の手前で瀬戸大橋の下を通過します。その後、橋を回りこんでユータンして戻ります。4...
Okayama Farmers Market North Village

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Katsutagunshououchou Oka 1100

Okayama Farmers' Market North Village is a park located in Oka, Sho-o-cho Town, Katsuta County. In addition to a lodge, a campground, and facilities for luxury camping, it contains a restaurant, a cafe, a barbecue area, and a farmers' market that sells local agricultural products. Visitors can play using available athletic and other equipment, attend craft or cooking workshops, harvest their own fruit and other produce, interact with animals, or mow hay and help take care of the grounds in other ways.
Yamada Bee Farm

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Okayama Pref. Tomatagunkagaminochou Tsukadani 785-1

Yamada Bee Farm is a destination farm in Tsukadani in the town of Kagamino in Tomata County. In the greenhouse and fields on the farm, visitors can enjoy picking strawberries or blueberries, depending on the season, and from May to August, they can observe beehives and try their hands at beekeeping and honey gathering. Throughout the year, visitors can learn how to make beeswax candles. All of these activities are available by reservation only. Throughout the year, visitors can patronize other attractions on the farm: the café, which serves sweets made with honey, the shop, and petting zoo.
Mimasaka Shiitake-en

4.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Mimasaka-shi Kitabara 37

A five-minute drive from JR Hayashino Station or 10-minutes from the Mimasaka Interchange. This tourism farm is just off of National Route 179 where it runs parallel with the Yoshino River. As the mushrooms are grown indoors you can enjoy shiitake harvesting year-round, rain or shine, and they also offer putter golfing. They have different experiences to enjoy throughout the year such as bamboo shoot harvesting in April and May, rhinoceros beetle and stag beetle catching in July and August, and chestnut collection in September and October. They serve a barbecue set meal and also sell pickled and preserved mushrooms made with their harvested shiitake mushrooms.

椎茸狩り&椎茸商品のお買い物には５回ほど！食事には1度お邪魔させていただきました。ワンちゃん連れでも、すごく温かく迎えてくれ嬉しかったです。ここの椎茸は肉厚で大きくて、いつもお土産に！とたくさん買っちゃいます＾＾
Kurashiki Kawabune-nagashi

Travel / Tourism

Departed from Kurashiki River / Nakahashi Kurashiki-shi, Okayama Prefecture

Kurashiki River used to be quite active with the coming and going of vessels carrying goods. Enjoy its atmosphere with a sightseeing boat tour. You can see the white-walled town streets from the boat as it slowly floats down Kurashiki River. Tickets are available for purchase at the Kurashiki Museum Tourist Office. Open to chartering for weddings and other events.
Takashiro Senkou shop RIVER

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Kojimashimonochou 7-2-6

The Takashiro Senkou shop RIVER is an indigo dyeing shop that dyes all its products by hand, which include standard blouses and shirts, one-and-only items, seasonal items, and old clothes re-dyed into “ecoshirts.” Takashiro is a 100-year old dye workshop, and the shop located adjacent to it. They perform ai-zome dyeing, indigo dyeing, and others. Approximately 10 minutes' drive from JR Kojima Station.
Nakayama Strawberry Garden

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Pref. Okayamashi Kita-ku Sugano 3980

This farm is located along Prefectural Road 237 in the Sugano area of Kita Ward, Okayama City. It cultivates different varieties of strawberries such as Akihime, Kaorino, Benihoppe, Honoka and OiCBerry by hydroponics and gives Chinese medicine prescriptions. You can enjoy strawberry picking inside a greenhouse when in season.
Okayama Castle Tower Bizen Pottery Studio

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Pref. Okayamashi Kita-ku Marunouchi 2-3-1 Okayama Castle Inside the castle tower

Okayama Castle Tower Bizen Pottery Studio located within Ujo Park in Marunouchi, Kita Ward, Okayama City is a place where visitors can practice making their own Bizen pottery. They can choose to make one of six items: a round plate, a rectangular plate, a chopstick rest, a leaf-shaped plate, a bowl, or a tea mug, beginning by forming the clay. Events at which visitors can make East Asian zodiac figurines or wind chimes are held on a seasonal basis.
Kubo Farm

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Mitsu Shiko 2747-1

Kubo Farm is located in Mitsushitori, Kita Ward in the city of Okayama. In the surrounding fields, visitors can pick grapes, shiitake mushrooms, and other kinds of produce. A combination produce stand, information counter, and reception desk has been set up along Prefectural Route 31, and in the Rinkan Garden area is a campground and barbecue facility, along with a branch of the Italian restaurant Piza Kobo.
Tomomien Tourist Orchard

Travel / Tourism

Okayama Akaiwa-shi Odani 843

This agritourism farm is located along Prefectural Route 27 in Kamiichi, Akaiwa City. Cultivating 23 varieties of peaches and four varieties of grapes on a site covering approximately 15,000 square meters of land, you can enjoy peach and grape picking in the season from summer to autumn (reservations required in advance).
Okayama Electric Tramway

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Okayama Okayama-shi Kita-ku Ekimaecho Hoka
Okayama Electric Tramway (Okaden)

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Okayama Okayama-shi Naka-ku Tokuyoshicho 2-8-22

This streetcar line is designed around popular television show Chuggington. The trains have two cars, with the front car being red Wilson, and the back being blue for Brewster. Inside, both cars are done with adorable livery, and run with a special navigator on board. The trams stop at the three popular tourist stops Okayama Station, Seikibashi, and Higashiyama Okaden Museum. There are 3-4 trams a day, and you can buy tickets on the web.
Rural Caprine Farm

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Okayama Okayama-shi Higashi-ku Kusakabe 1346-1

This is a mountain goat farm, and their wide open pasture is filled with adorable goats which are raised primarily for their milk. The farm shop offers mountain goat cheese, yoghurt, and other dairy products. You can also try goatmilk soft-serve ice cream, custard pudding, and other rare treats! The farm restaurant has paninis with meat and goat cheese, and serves Yagilatte goat's milk cafe lattes.
Hiruzen Farm

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Okayama Maniwa-shi Hiruzenshimofukuda 462

A corn field and farm about a 25-minute drive from the Hiruzen Interchange on the Yonago Expressway. The farm was founded in the Hiruzen Highlands by a group of women interested in agriculture and is now the top producer of corn in western Japan growing nearly 600 thousand ears of corn per year. It's also known for its direct sales shop which often has a line out the door and during the summer is always bustling with customers who've come in search of fresh corn. They grow both the Hiruzen Milky Yellow Corn, which has a strong sweet flavor, and the Hiruzen Milky White Corn, which offers a pleasing crunch and sheen like pearl.
Yasuhara Strawberry Farm

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Kurashiki-shi Hayataka 433

A 10-minute drive from the Hayashima Interchange on the Seto Chuo Expressway. A sightseeing farm that strives to produce delicious strawberries with the help of regional cooperation. Strawberry picking is offered from late January to mid-May. The strawberries are grown hydroponically allowing you to enjoy clean strawberry picking without dirt sticking to the berries or getting on your hands. The berries are grown on raised beds allowing them to be picked while standing and the aisles are nearly 90 centimeters wide making them accessible to those with strollers or wheelchairs. The farm closes as soon as all the ripe strawberries are picked, so please call the farm before visiting.

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Okayama Areas

Overshadowed by Hiroshima to the west and the Kansai region to the east, Okayama is an easy spot to miss but a nature-rich gem where the Seto Inland Sea laps at its toes and peach and grape farms complete its interior. One of Japan’s Three Great Gardens, Koraku-en in Okayama city is well worth a visit before progressing to Kurashiki, where preserved wooden Edo buildings line the picturesque canal.