Ojima noen is located in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture. No matter when you visit during the season they do their absolute best to have the most delicious strawberries available, through a continual process of trial and error during cultivation every year. Here you will find three varieties of strawberry available: ‘TOCHIOTOME’, which has a strong sweet taste and is representative of Tochigi; ‘TOCHIHIME’, which is not sold in the market and is produced only in a few farms in Tochigi, and ‘TOCHIAIKA’, which is a new variety from Tochigi Prefecture and has a strong sweet taste. ‘TOCHIOTOME’ and ‘TOCHIAIKA’ are available for all-you-can-eat strawberry picking for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
“I’m doing my best to grow wonderful strawberries, because I’m happy to hear the customers say ‘Wow, they’re so sweet!’ when they try our berries,” says Mr. Ojima, from the farm.<\/p>\n
Just as he says, the cultivation methods used at Ojimanoen revolves around trial and error; at present, techniques involving microbes and enzymes are being used to bring about strawberries with the best flavor possible. As a result, strawberry plants with stronger roots have been made here, which means that the plants can give a lot of nutrients to the berries, which in turn results in berries with a richer, sweeter taste. Normally, strawberries that are grown after their peak season of January to February in Japan tend to have a weaker flavor overall, but here you can enjoy delicious berries even after the month of March.<\/p>\n
Currently, most overseas visitors to strawberry picking are accompanied by a Japanese person as an interpreter, but this farm has no problem with English.<\/p>\n
About a 15-minute drive from here will bring you to two of Moka city’s top sightseeing spots: Omae Ebisu Shrine, home of the tallest statue of the god Ebisu (20m tall) in Japan, and to SL Kyu-Roku, a steam train museum where you can ride in an authentic locomotive on weekends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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