Takiguchi Sightseeing Orchard

Takiguchi Sightseeing Orchard, located along Route 48, and just ten minutes by car from Higashine Station in Yamagata prefecture, is a farm known for its safe and tasty fruits. They do not use any herbicides and rely on organic fertilizers only.

Here you can taste eight different kinds of fruits, including cherries, peaches, and apples. Takiguchi Sightseeing Orchard are especially known for their cherries, which are a Yamagata specialty, and also have benishuho, satoishiki, benisayaka, nanyo, kokanishiki, gassan nishiki, and many other cultivars as well.

At Takiguchi Sightseeing Orchard, they have devised various different cultivation methods in order to produce truly delicious cherries. One trick is that they thin out their fruits to less than half of the standard amount. By doing so, each tree can produce cherries that are larger and sweeter than normal.

They also prune their trees, keeping cherry trees that would normally grow to 3-5 meters tall down at about 2 meters instead. Although this decreases the amount of cherries that each tree can grow, it makes it possible to harvest cherries that have been drenched in sunshine without having to use a step ladder.

There are also greenhouse cultivated cherries that you can enjoy picking nearly 3 months earlier than the regular season, from early May to mid-July, at Takiguchi Sightseeing Orchard. Orchard-based cherries are available from early to mid-July. The price for cherry picking varies by variety harvested, costing 1600-3000 yen for 60 minutes of picking.

Before visiting the farm, make sure to email them first with the date and time of your intended visit so they can ensure that you “enjoy the freshest and tastiest seasonal fruits possible”.

In addition to cherries, you can also enjoy peach picking from August to early September, grape picking from August to early September, and apple picking from September to November.

Please visit Takiguchi Sightseeing Orchard to taste safe, ripe, and delicious fruits.