All you can eat? I'm confident we have already eaten our way through a good portion of Japan. So when the thought of 'all-you-can-eat' came up we considered this a challenge we wanted to undertake. After a two hour drive we arrived at the Hirata Fruits Farm. Cherries are currently in season but the cost of buying a small bucket at our local grocery store is astronomical. Ten cherries for 1000 yen (about $13.00)! So when someone mentioned a farm where you can eat all you want we decided it was worth the drive.
We purchased a ticket for thirty minutes of all-you-can-eat cherries. It was a rainy day so I was glad to be in a greenhouse. We were given a small cup for seeds and stems and then set out to roam the trees.
There were three varieties that were ripe for picking.
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| Satonishiki Cherries - most popular in Japan |
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| Sakuranbo Cherries |
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| "American Cherries" |
We ate our fill and then some. The Japanese cherries are very sweet. Not sure what variety the "American cherries" were (Bing maybe?). We found a tree that had almost been picked clean. A worker who knew a little English told us it had the best tasting fruit. We found a small batch at the top and have to agree they were the best tasting.
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| Almost empty tree |
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| Very full tree |
We will have to come back for grapes (September) and strawberries (January)!
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