Pick-your-own farms in Japan

Japan's apple heartland beneath Mount Iwaki. Entry includes all-you-can-eat picking plus one apple to carry home.

Apple (pick your own)

Terraced citrus hills facing the sea in Japan's top mikan prefecture, with mikan-gari picking in late autumn.

Citrus fruit (pick your own)

Visit mountain tea fields and a working tea factory with Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms, then taste nine locally made teas and learn how to brew sencha and prepare matcha.

Tea

Spring mountain vegetables, fuki, warabi, kogomi, emerge along the birch margins, followed by haskap berries in early summer.

Berry · Wild food

Japan's oldest wine town, where trellised vineyards offer budo-gari grape picking from late summer.

Grape (pick your own)

Okayama's hakuto white peaches are grown in individual paper bags. Momo-gari picking runs in July and August.

Peach (pick your own)

The home of matcha and gyokuro. Shaded fields, tea houses and grinding workshops around Byodoin.

Tea

Terraced peach slopes that turn entirely pink in April. Summer tours end with a chilled white peach at the lookout.

Peach