I went strawberry picking recently!
In Japan, we have a system where you pay a flat fee and you can pick and eat as much fruit as you want right there on the farm. Besides strawberries, we have this for grapes, melons, apples, and more! Do you have any "all-you-can-eat" fruit picking systems in your country?
Most Japanese people are quite modest and well-behaved, even at all-you-can-eat farms. They pick the fruit carefully, eat only what they can, and always clean up their trash before they leave. Even as a Japanese person, I’m always impressed by how polite everyone is! (I wouldn't say I'm the most refined person, but I definitely try my best, lol.)
I wonder if it’s the same in other countries? I’d love to eat my fill of mangoes or cherries until I’m totally stuffed!
by sofaKDZ
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Damn I wish I knew about this! They would have had to carry me out
I went last month in shodoshima. It was the best strawberries I ever had. Nothing came close even tho places in Shikoku were selling the same kind.
just went in february in Ehime. had some delicious strawberries. also some of the pink ones. just watch out for the bees!
That looks fun! Any recommendations that’re close to Tokyo??
We have this in New Zealand but not as common as it was
Yes, in the US you can google “U-Pick farm” for this. The main difference is that instead of a flat fee you generally pay by the pound what you take home. You don’t pay for what you eat while picking, but it’s expected that you plan to buy a few pounds. Nothing beats eating a tree ripened peach in the height of summer.
I’m from the US and living in Japan. While I enjoy picking strawberries in Japan with my kid (and the fruit is delicious), I do prefer the US style, where you pick strawberries from the ground outdoors and you take the fruits home instead of eating at the strawberry farm.
I the US we have all sorts of fruit picking, and it’s fun to take home to eat, cook with, and bake with. Also, the strawberry season in Japan really throws me off, since to me strawberries are a late spring/summer fruit, not a winter/spring fruit!
Yes! My family goes Mikan picking in Musashimurayama every year and we love it 🧡
Yep, in Louisiana (USA) we have all you can eat blueberry farms. I went to one of the all you can eat strawberries in Japan near Mount Fuji last year and it was amazing… I was so stuffed
Worth noting that for the Louisiana blueberry farms, most of them are on an honor system. You generally can eat as much as you want while you pick them, but if you leave with them, you just add money to the cash box depending on the weight you’re taking home.
Last time I did this it came with a tube of condensed milk for the strawberries. Did you get that too?
I’m going to be downvoted again but as another Japanese person it embrasses me to see when someone tries to show something they think is Japan only and go out of their way to say Japanese people are modest and clean as if people from other countries are not. I went peach picking in Georgia when I visited the US two years ago and people were also modest and clean.