Pick Your Own Strawberries

That typical summer fruit, the strawberry has had a bit of a career change in Japan. Due to the strong demand for strawberries for Christmas cakes and the clever marketing of Strawberry Day on 15th January (the words for one-five spell strawberry in Japanese) strawberries are a winter fruit and are grown under glass.

Pick your own fruit farms are quite big over here and in Yuzawa you can enjoy fresh strawberries right off the plant. Open from now until sometime in June the Strawberry farm is right next to the river. You can pick the choicest fruit to take away with you or for the real glutton, go for the 30 minute each as much as you can deal. Armed with a pair of scissors and a pot of condensed milk head through the greenhouse and satisfy your strawberry craving.