10 Osaka Strawberry Picking Farms to Get Your Fill on Delicious Japanese Fruit

Written by: WESTPLAN

Last updated: 21 December 2022

Osaka has several season-exclusive fruit-picking activities to enjoy. Osaka strawberry-picking farms, in particular, are extremely popular. You pick the unique Japanese strawberries in the fields to eat – it doesn’t get fresher than this.

Strawberry picking in Osaka is available from winter to spring and is an activity you can’t miss! Here are ten strawberry farms in the Kansai region that offer prime all-you-can-eat Japanese strawberries.

1. Strawberry Farm Haru (Osaka): All-You-Can-Eat 'Asuka Ruby' Strawberries for 60 Min.

Strawberry Farm Haru in Kishiwada City, Osaka Prefecture, offers 60 minutes of all-you-can-eat of the bright red “Asuka Ruby” brand strawberry.

The strawberries are easy to pick since they use elevated cultivation containers, and you don’t have to worry about getting dirty since the soil is contained above the floor. You can use scissors to pick the strawberries carefully.

Strawberry Farm Haru also offers cake and ice cream, so you can use the picked strawberries as toppings. Additionally, they have chocolate sauce and condensed milk that you can garnish your strawberries with, and they even have free drinks. What more could you want?

Strawberry Farm Haru

いちご畑はる
- Address 2415-1 Obucho, Kishiwada, Osaka 596-0816
- Nearest Station Get on the Nankai Bus “Michino-eki / Aisai Land” at Nankai Main Line “Kishiwada Station” - JR Hanwa Line “Shimomatsu Station,” and get off at “Tombo-ike Koen Mae”
- Phone Number 072-440-0200

Strawberry Farm Haru Website

2. GrandBerry (Osaka): 30-Minute All-You-Can-Eat Juicy 'Akihime' Brand Strawberries

GrandBerry in Yao City, Osaka, is located near Osaka City and also a 10-minute walk from the closest station, Onji Station. To enter the picking grounds, you will have to wear slippers (adorable). The floor is even covered with a sheet to prevent dust from blowing up on the strawberries.

Here you can enjoy the “Akihime” brand, which gets juicier and sweeter the colder it gets. The strawberries are cultivated at a height where children can easily pick them. They offer 30 minutes of all-you-can-eat strawberries that are carefully grown.

GrandBerry

GrandBerry
- Address 1-254 Onji Kitamachi, Yao, Osaka 581-0875
- Nearest Station Kintetsu Nara Line “Namba Station” Kintetsu Osaka Line “Onji Station” 25 minutes, walk north for 10 minutes from “Onji Station”
  *Only local trains stop at “Onji Station”

GrandBerry Website

3. Strawberry Farm No.15 (Osaka): Pick Japanese Strawberries Picking at the Large Garden

Located inside a garden center, The Farm UNIVERSAL OSAKA, is Strawberry Farm No.15, by the Farm UNIVERSAL OSAKA. They offer a style where you can pick as much as you want to take home, and you can pick from the three brands of “Akihime,” “Beni Hoppe,” and “Oi C Berry.”

Once you pay 440 yen (tax inc.) to enter, you will first try the samples* and find the flavor you like; after that, you can start picking.

There is no time limit, so you take your time picking. It’s not all-you-can-eat, but you can take home the picked strawberries for 4yen/1g + tax. The service ends when they run out of strawberries, so we recommend going early in the morning. They also have a cafe that offers strawberry parfait and drinks.

Strawberry Farm No.15 by the Farm UNIVERSAL OSAKA

Strawberry Farm No.15 by the Farm UNIVERSAL OSAKA
- Address 193-2 Saho, Ibaraki, Osaka 568-0095
- Nearest Station About a 20-minute walk from Osaka Monorail Saito-Nishi Station. Or 5 minutes on the Hankyu Bus and get off at “Baba” bus stop.
- Phone Number 070-2440-6863

Strawberry Farm No.15 Website

4. Kafuka Strawberry Farm (Shiga): All-You-Can-Eat Strawberries With Free Chocolate Sauce and Condensed Milk!

Kafuka Strawberry Farm is a large strawberry farm in Shiga Prefecture that cultivates about 35,000 strawberries. They offer 45 minutes of all-you-can-eat strawberries with free chocolate sauce and condensed milk. Their parking lot is spacious and large buses can park there.

The facility is barrier-free, so people in wheelchairs and families with strollers can enjoy Osaka strawberry picking. You can pick the “Akihime” brand, and at the direct shop, they sell “Akihime” and “Beni Hoppe.”

Kafuka Strawberry Farm

鹿深いちご園
- Address 5940-4 Minakuchicho Minakuchi, Koka, Shiga 528-0005
- Nearest Station 5-minute walk from Ohmi Railway “Minakuchi Jyonan Station”
- Phone Number 074-863-5811

Kafuka Strawberry Farm Website

5. Berry Fields (Nara): 30 Minutes All-You-Can-Eat Nara Brand 'Nara Akari', 'Kotoka', 'Nanoka' Strawberries

“Berry Fields Shimomura” offers 30 minutes of all-you-can-eat Nara brand strawberries. You can enjoy “Kotoka” with a rich flavor and high sugar content, as well as a new variety called “Nanoka” and “Nara Akari.” (Ony one or two varieties may be available at the time of picking, depending on the condition of the strawberries.)

Kotoka is especially rare and an expensive strawberry that is hard to acquire. When you take a bite the sweetness and the right amount of sourness will fill your mouth. After the staff is finished with their explanation, take the scissors and plastic bag and you are ready to start picking. Enjoy your picking!

Berry Fields Shimomura

下村ベリー園
- Address 989-8 Kinoharacho, Gojo, Nara 637-0076
- Nearest Station About 30 minutes on foot from "Yamato-Futami Station" on the JR Wakayama Line, about 5 minutes by taxi
- Phone Number 0747-24-3830

Berry Fields Shimomura Website

6. Shigisan Nodokamura Farm (Nara): 30 Minutes All-You-Can-Eat Various Ripe Japanese Strawberries

Shigisan Nodokamura Farm offers over 30 types of fruit picking throughout the year. For strawberry picking in Nara, they offer a 30 minutes all-you-can-eat course with “Kotoka,” a Nara brand strawberry that has the right sugar content, sourness, and aroma, “Asuka Ruby,” and “Akihime” (variety available depends on the day).

No reservation is required, and it will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Numbered tickets will be issued if crowded.

The facility has a day campsite and a barbeque house where they provide the equipment.

Other popular activities are gathering eggs in a pen with 500 to 600 chickens and the mini-farm with goats and sheep. They also have classes where you can experience making jams, konjac, and soba (reservations preferred). If you contact them, they will provide a shuttle bus to Kintetsu Bus Shigisanmon Bus Stop.

Shigisan Nodokamura Farm

農業公園　信貴山のどか村
- Address 1 Come-7-1 Sangocho Shigiminamihata, Ikoma-gun, Nara 636-0833
- Nearest Station Take the Nara Kotsu Bus Line to "Shigisanmon Bus Stop” from Kintetsu Ikoma Line “Shigisanshita Station” or JR “Oji Station.” 5 minutes by shuttle bus from “Shigisanmon Bus Stop.”
  Transfer at Kintetsu Osaka Line “Yamamoto Station,” take the cable car towards “Takayasuyama,” take the Kintetsu Bus to “Shigisanmon Bus Stop,” and take the shuttle bus for 5 minutes.
- Phone Number 0745-73-8203

Shigisan Nodokamura Farm Website

7. Kishigawa Tourism Strawberry Hunting Association (Wakayama): All-You-Can-Eat Strawberry Picking with No Time Limit!

Fruit kingdom Kinokawa City Wakayama Prefecture is thriving with strawberry cultivation. Here you can enjoy all-you-can-eat sweet large strawberries with no time limit. They use biotechnology to cultivate the strawberry “Marihime,” a Wakayama Prefecture original brand.

Since there is no time limit, you can take your time and pick strawberries. Please enjoy picking plump strawberries at Kinokawa City, which has been blessed with great climate and soil. Also, at the closest station (Kishi Station), you might see the cat station master “Tama.”

Kishigawa tourism Strawberry hunting Association

貴志川観光いちご狩り協会
- Address 238 Kishigawacho Kodo, Kinokawa, Wakayama 640-0413
- Nearest Station 15-minute walk from Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line Kishi Station
- Phone Number 0736-64-7212

Website (available in English, Korean and Chinese)

8. Vegetable Garden (Shiga): Strawberry Night Picking at this Illuminated Strawberry Farm!

At Vegetable Garden, you can enjoy a magical strawberry-picking experience in Shiga in an illuminated environment. During the day, it is a bright and warm room, and at night they use illumination to create a romantic atmosphere to enjoy strawberry picking.

They have 9 types of strawberries centered on “Akihime.” Inside the facility, they have counters and tables, which creates a space like a cafe where you can relax. At night they have drink services and you can enjoy strawberry picking in a relaxed environment.

Vegetable Garden

ベジタブルガーデン
- Address 1267 Ikedacho, Higashiomi, Shiga 527-0054
- Nearest Station Take the bus heading towards Eigenji Shako Bus Stop from Ohmi Railway Main Line Yokaichi Station to Nyorai Bus Stop and walk for 8 minutes, or take the taxi for 15 minutes from Yokaichi Station.
- Phone Number 080-6102-2671

Vegetable Garden Website

9. ADAMINE Plateau Farm (Nara): Strawberry Picking from Winter to Spring/BBQ and Activities in Summer!

Gojo City, located on the border of Nara Prefecture, Osaka Prefecture and Wakayama Prefecture is the home of “ADAMINE Plateau Farm.” It is located 200m above sea level and they offer strawberry pickings in Nara from winter to spring, and BBQ and athletic activities in summer.

Here you can pick the “Akihime” brand with high sugar content and low sourness. They use elevated cultivation, so it is easy to pick. The farm has various facilities, such as a grassy multipurpose open space and a direct shop that sells strawberries and shiitake mushrooms.

ADAMINE Plateau farm

あだみね高原ファーム
- Address 244 Onoshindencho, Gojo, Nara 637-0015
- Nearest Station 25-minute walk from Kintetsu Yoshino Line Fukugami Station
  ADAMINE Plateau farm
- Phone Number 080-2407-2217

ADAMINE Plateau farm Website

10. GREENARIUM Awajishima (Hyogo): Picnic Under Floating Strawberries!

At “GREENARIUM Awajishima,” they have a unique strawberry picking experience in Hyogo. They offer the “Strawberry Picnic,” where you can have a picnic under the strawberries after you are done picking.

They have a cultivation shelf that moves up and down, one of the only few in the world, and it gives the illusion that the strawberries floating.

If you purchase the Strawberry Picnic coupon, you can rent items for picnics for free and receive one pack of strawberries. At the counter in front of the facility, you can purchase sweets and coffee for your strawberries. If you want to experience strawberry picking, you can ask the staff and purchase what you picked. (3yen/1g *prices may vary depending on the season) GREENARIUM also has a cafe and restaurant, and if you order lunch, you can experience sweet mini-tomato picking.

GREENARIUM Awajishima

グリナリウム淡路島
- Address 1550-10 Nojimatokiwa, Awaji, Hyogo 656-1726
- Nearest Station Take the express bus from Sannomiya and get off at Awaji IC Bus Stop. Go down the steps and reach the general road, and from the Awaji InterChange Express Bus Stop, you can get on the Kitaawaji tour bus “Flower Ring Bus.”
- Phone Number 0799-70-4179

GREENARIUM Awajishima Website

Japanese strawberries carefully grown in greenhouses are large, juicy, and sweet. They are so delicious that it’s hard to stop eating. The greenhouses are quite warm compared to the outside temperature, so they are comfortable. Make sure to follow the rules of the farms and enjoy the sweet and delicious Japanese strawberries near Osaka!

*The information at the time of publication has been updated in December 2022. Please contact stores directly for the latest information.

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