Strawberry Farm Minai
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.