[Hyogo/Awaji] The fruit of the producers' research and training! A strawberry picking experience of the "Benihoppe" variety, also known as the "Strawberry of the Sun" 30 minutes of all-you-can-eat

The Benihoppe variety, known as the "sun's strawberry," is large, sweet, and full-bodied, with a moderate sourness that will make you addicted. The producers have arrived at a unique cultivation method after many years of trial and error, and the top quality strawberries are grown under strict management, and you can enjoy the sweet aroma to your heart's content. After picking strawberries, you can also interact with the animals on the vast grounds! Awaji Country Garden is located on a small hilltop in the northern part of Awaji Island. It is located in a great location where you can see the Akashi Strait and Akashi Kaikyo Bridge below, as well as the Kobe cityscape on the opposite bank. In two vinyl greenhouses in one corner of the vast grounds, there are countless large, ripe, bright red strawberries that are ready to be eaten. The Benihoppe variety, known as the "sun's strawberry," is sweet, full-bodied, with a moderate sourness that will make you addicted, and the producers' many years of hard work have improved the quality to its current level. Inside one greenhouse, there are 12 rows of growing shelves over 20 meters long, with about 2,500 seedlings growing healthy and with their leaves spread wide. Just by looking at the healthy seedlings, which are thoroughly managed based on data accumulated over many years of experience and grown using a painstaking cultivation method, you can see how much care and attention they have been given. The strawberries grown in this greenhouse are large, even at a standard size of 2L, but what is particularly noteworthy are the extra-large strawberries that are packed and sold individually as luxury gifts. These are about the size of a small peach and are priced at over 500 yen each! Participants can taste strawberries of the exact same quality through the strawberry picking experience. It may also be interesting to look for extra-large strawberries that are shipped as gifts. The joy of finding them is even greater! The cultivation method in the greenhouse is the nowadays mainstream method of raising the cultivation shelves about one meter above the ground, making it easy for adults and children alike to reach and pick the strawberries without having to assume an awkward position. Surrounded by the sweet aroma that fills the greenhouse, please enjoy to your heart's content the strawberries grown by our hard-working staff who strive to make our customers "delicious, fun, and happy."

The strawberries grown at our garden are of the "Benihoppe" variety, known as the "sun's strawberry" because of the well-balanced sweetness and sourness. The standard size of strawberries grown in greenhouses is 2L. When they reach the extra-large size for gifts, they grow to about the size of a small peach. This is a masterpiece grown by our agri-team using a unique cultivation method that was arrived at through repeated trial and error. We take great care to grow our strawberries, carefully checking the condition of the leaves and how dry they are. We plant seedlings farther apart than usual to ensure that customers can pick large, high-quality strawberries, which we are sure will please our strawberry-picking customers.

Our soft serve ice cream made with strawberries harvested at our garden is also very popular. It contains no additives and is a proud item made from 100% strawberries from our garden. Although it is called soft serve ice cream, it has a texture similar to gelato made from shaved strawberries. We also recommend the "Awaji Milk Soft Serve" made with simple ingredients of Awaji Island milk and sugar beet, and the "Milk and Strawberry Mixed Soft Serve" made with milk and strawberries. *As both are additive-free, they melt easily, so we recommend purchasing them in cups on windy or warm days.

After picking strawberries, you can enjoy interacting with the cute animals kept in the animal park. We have recently added friendly ducks, fluffy rabbits, growing baby goats, and a friendly donkey. Enjoy some precious time interacting with animals that you don't usually get to see. There is also a dog run, which is popular with guests with dogs. There are many other attractions in the garden, so please enjoy it to your heart's content throughout the day.