One classic way to enjoy Miyazaki is strawberry and tropical fruit picking!
While Miyazaki is well known as a place to pick strawberries, its warm climate also makes it perfect for picking tropical fruits as well! Make sure you check out the details on each farm’s website or contact them before visiting, as the available fruits, picking schedule, and fees depend on the season.
[Strawberries] Hinata Ichigoen (Miyazaki City)
This farm produces strawberries that are not only sweet and delicious, they’re also safe to eat for children and pregnant women.
Strawberry picking is only available on certain days and requires a reservation. Service is provided between January and May, and reservations must be made online up to the day before your visit. The strawberries are grown on high platforms so you can pick them while standing, and the row width is wide enough to allow strollers through in some places. You can pick all you can eat in up to 45 minutes, and compare up to four types of strawberries.
You can also try a selection of fresh morning-picked strawberries at the adjacent Coich Cafe, as well as strawberry parfaits and strawberry sandwiches.
* Parfaits made with other fruit are served outside the strawberry season.
[Strawberries] Lakeside Red Farm (Miyazaki City)
Visitors here can enjoy picking a strawberry variety called Sagahonoka that is very sweet and juicy and low on tartness. The two plans you can select from are one where you pay by the weight of strawberries you pick, and an all you can eat plan for one hour.
There is also a break area and kid’s corner, so parents with small children can focus on picking strawberries. You can also try making your own fresh strawberry juice.
[Strawberries] Kawahara Ichigo Noen (Nobeoka City)
Visitors here can enjoy picking sweet and fresh Sagahonoka strawberries on the spacious grounds of the farm. The strawberries plants are cultivated somewhat high off the ground at the perfect height for everyone from children to the elderly to enjoy picking them without getting tired.
They also offer soft ice cream, parfaits, and shaved ice made with their strawberries.
[Strawberries] Ichini-no-Ichigoen (Nobeoka City)
Easily accessible just 10 minutes from Nobeoka Station by car, visitors can enjoy strawberry picking inside the greenhouses whether it is cold or raining out. This farm produces five varieties of strawberries, and you can even compare multiple varieties depending on the season. The all-you-can-eat plan is for 50 minutes. They also offer their own original strawberry soft ice cream.
[Strawberries] Sasagino Ichigoen (Hyuga City)
This small, friendly, at-home farm grows six types of strawberries using fresh spring water from the mountains of Hyuga. The spaces between the rows are wide in some places, so wheelchair users can pick strawberries here as well. The all-you-can-eat plan is for 60 minutes.
* If you use a wheelchair, say so when making your reservation.
[Strawberries] Kamenoko Ichigoen (Hyuga City)
This farm grows several different varieties of strawberries, paying special attention to size, sweetness, flavor, and fragrance, so that you will smile unbidden when you taste them. You can pick and eat as much as you like in up to 50 minutes. They also sell a limited supply of strawberries picked that morning at the market corner on the farm.
[Strawberries] SEN's Berry Farm (Ebino City)
This is the only large-scale strawberry picking farm in Ebino. Visitors can try the all-you-can-eat 50 minute plan, or buy strawberries to take home.
Kezuri-ichigo, a special treat designed with local high school students, is available via kitchen car during the summer.
※ Kezuri Ichigo is a type of shaved ice made using frozen strawberries
[Strawberries] Minami Ichigo Nouen (Nichinan City)
This farm grows especially sweet strawberries making good use of the winter sunlight and temperature difference between day and night. There are two strawberry picking plans: “All-you-can-eat” and “Tsumi-tori” (pick your own), and there is even a set plan that combines both. They also hold events such as nighttime strawberry picking or a cafe in the summer where you can enjoy sweets with full frozen strawberries in them.
They also produce and sell a variety of products that use strawberries, such as jams and compotes.
[Strawberries] Ichigogari Shashinkan Marukajiri (Nichinan City)
This farm was created by recultivating a former tea farm situated at an altitude of 400 meters over an area of roughly seven hectares. While you pick, a professional cameraman patrols the farm to take pictures of each group. Plans are all-you-can-eat for up to 60 minutes, and some plans let you compare between five and ten different varieties. Reservations are required.
[Kumquats, peaches, grapes, persimmons, strawberries] Taguchi Family Farm (Nobeoka City)
This farm produces a variety of highly sweet fruit year round, leveraging the large temperature differences between night and day. Visitors here can try picking strawberries, grapes, peaches, persimmons, and Miyazaki’s own unique ripe kumquats.
They also offer processed fruit products including soft ice cream, crepes, dry fruits, and jams.
[Kiwis, grapes] Mukabaki Kajuen (Nobeoka City)
Located at the foot of Mt. Mukabaki in Nobeoka City, this farm cultivates a variety of fruit without pesticides, including red kiwis that are rare in Miyazaki. From July every year, they offer rare varieties of grapes, and kiwi picking starts at the end of September. Since kiwis need to ripen after picking, which takes time, they sell kiwi sets containing different varieties of ripe kiwis to compare the taste.
[Kiwis] Sekinoo Midori-no-mura Kanko Noen (Miyakonojo City)
Kiwis can be picked here every year from mid October through mid November. Families can enjoy picking together as in some parts of the farm, the kiwis are grown at a lower height. Their produce sells out as soon as they open in certain seasons, so we recommend calling in advance when you visit.
[Blueberries] Kiyanse Farm (Miyakonojo City)
One of the largest blueberry tourist farms in Miyazaki, they grow 2,000 blueberry plants in 30 different varieties on their spacious grounds of roughly 1.2 hectares. Visitors can enjoy picking fresh blueberries grown without pesticides starting every year in June. They also sell blueberry juice which lets you experience the unadulterated taste of their blueberries.
[Blueberries] Kotchan Blueberry-en (Mimata Town)
This tourist farm lets visitors pick blueberries directly from their roughly 200 blueberry bushes. All of their blueberries are grown organically, so it is safe for children to pick them here as well. The blueberries are quite sweet and can be enjoyed as is, in jams, or as a topping on cakes.
[Lychee] Miki Farm (Takanabe Town)
The lychee is a fruit that is famous for being loved by the immortal beauty Yang Guifei, consort of Chinese Emperor Xuanzong. Visitors at Miki Farm can try picking this fruit that is rare in Japan. Fresh lychees are known for a strong aroma, deep flavor, and refreshing sweetness. Picking starts in late June every year.
[Hyuganatsu] Kushima Ichigo-Batake Onitsuka Noen (Kushima City)
Visitors to this farm can try picking the hyuganatsu, a local citrus fruit unique to Miyazaki, from mid February through March every year. The hyuganatsu, which was discovered by accident in Miyazaki City in 1820, features juicy meat with a refreshing sourness, and is surprisingly delicious when eaten together with the white skin which offers its own sweetness. Visitors here can also pick strawberries between December and May, and they can interact with such animals as ponies and rabbits on the miniature farm on the grounds.
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