Things to do in Karuizawa/Saku/Komoro

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＊＊ ... We will plan what kind of shape would be good, where to put the initials, etc.♪ Put a diamond-like gemstone, carve an anniversary or initials... Imagine your special ring! *We also have synthetic stones such as Swarovski's pure brilliant cut zirconia. 2. Finally, it's time to make the ring! We will knead the silver clay according to the completed image. The instructor will support you to finish the shape♪3. Finishing The surface is finished beautifully and it's complete! 4. We will give you a commemorative Instax photo♪ (We will give you one Instax photo) <July to September: For those coming by car> There may be traffic jams in Karuizawa in the summer. Please allow about 30 minutes for your time.

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<Strawberry Picking Harvesting Experience Course (Admission Fee Included)> You can pick strawberries freely and enjoy them at your leisure at your hotel or at home. Recommended for those who do not want to eat as many strawberries as you want, and for families with small children. ▼ Plan Introduction ▼ Since it is a picking method, you can pick 250 grams of strawberries per pack from a raised bench. The plan includes the fee for picking 250 grams. ▼ About our farm ▼ ★★ Top ranking in the annual strawberry picking popularity ranking ★★ (1st place in 2019, 1st place in 2022, 4th place in 2023, 2nd place in 2024: Hokuriku Koshinetsu area, Ikoyo survey) Karuizawa's winter and spring strawberries are characterized by their melting sweetness. The strawberry picking house is located in a plateau area at an altitude of 1,000m, so the temperature difference between day and night creates strawberries with a rich taste. Although the harvest volume is reduced by the laborious hand-picking of buds (thinning), the craftsmanship is ingenious to produce strawberries with a richer flavor than anything you have ever tasted before. Please enjoy this experience that can only be experienced in Karuizawa to your heart's content. All strawberry greenhouses are clean, raised cultivation, making picking easy. It is located in Firefly Village, surrounded by the majestic Mt. Asama, about a 10-minute drive from Nakakaruizawa Station. *The price includes the picking experience course (1,500 yen) + admission fee (facility maintenance cooperation fee 500 yen). *This plan is not an all-you-can-eat course, so you cannot eat the strawberries in the greenhouse.

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≪Karuizawa Garden Farm, 40-minute tasting of multiple varieties, premium course≫The premium course allows you to enjoy all-you-can-eat red strawberries of multiple varieties for 40 minutes. The types of strawberries are Benihoppe, Kaorino, Yotsuboshi, Yayoihime, Koiminori, etc., and there are about three varieties depending on the growing conditions. ★Our farm's "Kaorino" is a special strawberry that won the taste evaluation of the "1st Strawberry Championship" hosted by the Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association, and "Yotsuboshi" is a special strawberry that won the taste evaluation of the "2nd Strawberry Championship". ▼Information about our farm▼★★Top ranking in the annual strawberry picking popularity ranking★★ (1st place in 2019, 1st place in 2022, 4th place in 2023, 2nd place in 2024: Hokuriku Koshinetsu area, Ikoyo survey) Karuizawa's winter and spring strawberries are characterized by their melting sweetness. The strawberry picking house is located in a plateau area at an altitude of 1,000m, so the temperature difference between day and night creates strawberries with a rich flavor. Although the harvest volume is reduced by the time-consuming manual bud picking (thinning), we have devised a way to create strawberries with a rich flavor that you have never tasted before. Please enjoy this experience that can only be experienced in Karuizawa to your heart's content. All strawberry houses are grown in clean elevated cultivation, making picking easy. It is located in Firefly Village, which has a great view and is surrounded by the majestic Mt. Asama, about 15 minutes by car from Karuizawa Station. ▼Introduction of the main target varieties▼・Kaorino: In the cold climate of Karuizawa, the strawberries ripen slowly and fully, so they are enveloped in a vanilla-like scent, as if you were drinking strawberry juice. ・Yotsuboshi: Our Yotsuboshi not only has a rich flavor with an excellent triplet of sweetness, sourness, and aroma, but also grows into a very neat and beautiful fruit.・Yayoihime: At its peak, it is the sweetest of all the varieties, and the size of the berries is also enjoyable. *Shinku no Meisuzu has been excluded from the Premium Course because it was often unavailable due to growing conditions.

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Karuizawa Garden Farm - 30-minute all-you-can-eat - Standard course: The standard course allows you to enjoy all-you-can-eat strawberries of one variety for 30 minutes. Benihoppe, which has a sugar content of 18 degrees, is our signature strawberry. If you like strawberries, be sure to try our Benihoppe. Kaorino, with its irresistible vanilla-like sweet scent, is a variety that you can enjoy not only for its taste but also for its aroma. ★Our Kaorino is an excellent strawberry that won a prize at the 1st Strawberry Championship, which determines the most delicious strawberry. You can enjoy all-you-can-eat one variety of either Benihoppe or Kaorino, which is recommended by the farm manager as delicious at that time. ▼Information about our farm▼★★Top ranking in the annual strawberry picking popularity ranking★★ (1st place in 2019, 1st place in 2022, 4th place in 2023, 2nd place in 2024: Hokuriku Koshinetsu area, Ikoyo survey) Karuizawa's winter and spring strawberries are characterized by their melting sweetness. The strawberry picking house is located in a plateau area at an altitude of 1,000m, so the temperature difference between day and night creates strawberries with a rich flavor. Although the harvest volume is reduced by the time-consuming cold-tightening process (exposing them to the cold) and manual bud picking (thinning), we are devising ways to create strawberries with a rich flavor that you have never tasted before with our craftsmanship. Please enjoy this experience that can only be experienced in Karuizawa to your heart's content. All strawberry houses are grown in clean elevated cultivation, making picking easy. It is about a 15-minute drive from Karuizawa Station, in the firefly village with a great view surrounded by the majestic Mt. Asama. Why not add strawberry picking to your plans for shopping, strolling, dining, skiing and snowboarding in Karuizawa? ▼Introduction of the main target varieties▼・Kaorino: Our farm's "Kaorino" is a special strawberry that won a prize in the taste evaluation of the "1st Strawberry Championship" sponsored by the Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association. In the cold climate of Karuizawa, it ripens slowly and fully, so it is enveloped in a vanilla-like scent, and it feels like drinking strawberry juice. ・Benihoppe: Our farm's signature strawberry. The sourness hidden deep within the sweetness further enhances the sweetness, aroma and richness. Because it is a widely cultivated variety, the taste varies depending on the care and love given to it.

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<<Admission ticket (entry to strawberry house only)>> This is a ticket for customers who will not pick strawberries but will only enter the strawberry house. ▼Plan introduction▼ * Customers who do not enter the strawberry house, such as customers who purchase souvenirs or smoothies, do not need to purchase an admission ticket. * Customers who apply for a strawberry picking experience do not need to purchase an admission ticket separately, as the "admission fee" is included in each strawberry picking plan. * If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. ▼Information about our farm▼ ★★Top ranking in the annual strawberry picking popularity ranking★★ (1st place in 2019, 1st place in 2022, 4th place in 2023, 2nd place in 2024: Hokuriku Koshinetsu area, Ikoyo survey) The strawberry picking house is located in a plateau area at an altitude of 1,000m, so the temperature difference between day and night creates strawberries with a rich taste. Although the harvest volume is reduced by the time-consuming cold-weather treatment (exposing the strawberries to the cold) and manual thinning (thinning out), the strawberries are produced with the artisan's skill and ingenuity to produce strawberries with a rich flavor never tasted before. The farm is located in the firefly village with a great view, surrounded by the majestic Mount Asama, about 10 minutes by car from Nakakaruizawa Station.

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Recommended points: Rare summer/autumn strawberries grown in the nature-rich Karuizawa Plateau. Harvesting experience with 250g of strawberries picked by hand. You can take home the strawberries you picked yourself! Great for rainy day activities. 15 minutes by car from Karuizawa Station. Great for sightseeing in Karuizawa! You can pick the strawberries carefully and enjoy them at your leisure at the hotel, your home, or the reception's rest area. Recommended for families with small children. Plan introduction: This is a pick-and-pick strawberry picking, so you can pick 250 grams of strawberries from a raised bench. The plan includes the fee for picking a 250 gram pack. *Main varieties: The varieties that can be picked vary depending on the season. Karuizawa Summer Queen: A new variety developed by Shinshu University in Nagano Prefecture. It is particularly sweet and rich among summer/autumn strawberries. "Summer Queen" is a registered trademark of Karuizawa Garden Farm, and is a very rare variety with a low yield. This is a summer/autumn strawberry that is red all the way through. <<Pechika Honoka>> This is a premium variety of summer/autumn strawberry that has an especially excellent taste. We obtained special permission and started cultivating it in 2021. The flesh is white, and it has a creamy sweetness like strawberry milk. It is a rare variety that can only be enjoyed at a few strawberry picking locations in Japan. ▼ What are summer/autumn strawberries? ▼ Strawberries that can be harvested from early summer to early December are called summer/autumn strawberries. Since the summer in Japan is generally hot, domestic strawberry production was originally low and rare, but our farm is able to grow strawberries even during the summer by taking advantage of the cool climate that is unique to the plateau. Summer/autumn strawberries are a variety that are characterized by their refreshing sweet and sour taste, but the fresh, ripe strawberries that are unique to strawberry picking are sweet and satisfying even when eaten as is! We have received positive feedback. Please enjoy the strawberries that our farm, which is committed to strawberry cultivation throughout the year, has carefully created with many ingenuity! ▼About our farm▼Karuizawa is located at an altitude of 1,000m. You can enjoy strawberry picking in an all-weather vinyl greenhouse with the majestic Mt. Asama in front of you. It is a natural environment blessed with clean water and air, so much so that fireflies fly around in the summer. It is conveniently located about 15 minutes by car from Karuizawa Prince Shopping Plaza, Harunire Terrace (Hoshino Resort Tombo no Yu), and JR Karuizawa Station. Enjoy strawberry picking as part of your sightseeing in Karuizawa♪ The summer and autumn strawberry greenhouses have a pleasant view and are all raised to make picking easy. They are also perfect as an activity on rainy days. We look forward to seeing you.

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Karuizawa Garden Farm High Grade Strawberry Picking Complete Course: You will be guaranteed to try all 8 varieties, including premium white and black strawberries. You can take home the strawberries you picked yourself as a souvenir (250g of red strawberries). You can enjoy strawberry picking for 1 hour (including all-you-can-eat and picking strawberries for souvenirs). *You can enjoy comparing the taste of 8 varieties cultivated by Karuizawa Garden Farm, including Shinku no Misuzu (black strawberry), Shinjuhime (white strawberry), premium "Royal Queen", "Yotsuboshi" and "Kaorino", which won prizes at the strawberry championships, as well as "Benihoppe", "Koiminori", and "Yayoihime". (Depending on the growing conditions of the strawberries, some varieties may be provided that have been picked by staff, or they may be substituted with experimental varieties.) *You can freely pick 250 grams of red strawberries for souvenirs. (Adults and elementary school students only) ▼About our farm▼★★Top ranking in the annual strawberry picking popularity ranking★★ (1st place in 2019, 1st place in 2022, 4th place in 2023, 2nd place in 2024: Hokuriku Koshinetsu area, Ikoyo survey) The strawberry picking house is located in a plateau area at an altitude of 1,000m, so the temperature difference between day and night creates strawberries with a rich flavor. Although the harvest volume is reduced by the time-consuming manual bud picking (thinning), we are ingenious in creating strawberries with a rich flavor that you have never tasted before. Please enjoy this experience that can only be experienced in Karuizawa to your heart's content. All strawberry houses are grown in clean elevated cultivation, making picking easy. It is about a 15-minute drive from Karuizawa Station, in the Firefly Village with a great view surrounded by the majestic Mt. Asama.

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* The required time for a one-day charter is 10 hours (including driving time). * If the departure point is outside Tokyo, the driver's round-trip time will be deducted. For continuous charter trips of more than two days (if the return point is outside Tokyo on the same day), the driver's accommodation fee of 10,000 yen per night will be borne by the customer to prevent the driver from becoming fatigued. * The departure time can be freely selected according to your request, and the itinerary and sightseeing spots can be freely customized according to your wishes. * Tourist hire cars are available in vehicles suitable for 6 and 9 passengers, and we also provide pick-up and drop-off services, so you can arrive at your destination safely and comfortably. * All vehicles provided comply with Japanese law, and drivers have more than 3 years of driving experience. * We provide services in multiple languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Cantonese, and English. * Karuizawa Day Tour (Example) * * 8:55 Pick up customers in a tourist hire car At the time of departure, the driver will arrive at the location specified in advance and wait for you. *10:00 Shiraito Falls (Karuizawa) There are many waterfalls named Shiraito Falls in Japan, and in addition to Karuizawa, Shiraito Falls in Shizuoka Prefecture is also registered as a World Heritage Site as a component part of Mt. Fuji. Karuizawa's Shiraito Falls is not very high at 3m, but it is 70m wide. Hundreds of groundwater flow like white threads between the curved rock walls. *11:30 Kumoba Pond Kumoba Pond is located in Karuizawa Town, Nagano Prefecture, and is easily accessible by walking for 15 minutes from Karuizawa Station. The nature changes with the seasons, and it is also affectionately known as "Swan Lake" because swans fly there in winter. You can go around the pond in about 20 minutes and enjoy a stroll or bicycle ride in a quiet space. The water of Kumoba Pond is very clear, so you can see the scenery reflected on the water surface. In particular, the autumn leaves and winter snow scenery are recommended. The best time to see the autumn leaves is from late October to early November, and the red-stained trees are reflected on the water. *13:00Harunire TerraceHarunire Terrace is built along the Yukawa River that flows through Karuizawa Town in the eastern part of Nagano Prefecture. The facility is based on the concept of everyday life in Karuizawa, and is filled with unique shops and restaurants. Making use of the more than 100 elm trees that originally grew there, several buildings are connected by wooden decks. The view is like a "small town". This is a spot where you can enjoy shopping and dining in the comfortable climate of Karuizawa, which is also known as a villa area. During the rainy season, you can enjoy the "umbrella sky" where colorful umbrellas color the sky. *15:00Kyu-Karuizawa GinzaKyu-Karuizawa Ginza is located in Karuizawa Town in the eastern part of Nagano Prefecture. During the Taisho era, it developed as a shopping district in Karuizawa, which flourished as a summer resort due to the pioneering efforts of Canadian missionaries. Currently, it has become a thriving tourist destination attracting many tourists from both within Japan and overseas.

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