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Fruit entertainment facilities throughout the year to enjoy the fruits grown in the rich nature of Minakami Town from the perspectives of "mokadori", "tatateru", "kau", "asobu" and "sotare". In a vast site of 65,000 square meters of "Motake", you can grow seven kinds of fruits and enjoy a variety of fruit picking throughout the year. Let's enjoy the nature and season of Minakami through fruit picking. In the "tare" hall, you can eat the characteristic cakes with seasonal fruits, mainly fruits collected in the orchard. Rich gelato using local raw milk is also popular.

There are various attractions in an undulating site at an altitude of 500m and 10,000 sq m. Plum hunting is located in a flat terrain area, so it can be safely enjoyed by wheelchairs and children. As an attraction, "Cave of Fear" or "Variety Square", let's play with mini-goats and rabbits.

From mid-June to mid-July of early summer, cherry picking can be done by Jintao Sato and Hongfeng. You can eat 100% of pure hand-made soba noodles in the attached dining hall. In addition to picking cherries and picking blueberries, you can experience various types of farming, such as rice planting experience throughout the year. In addition, with the guidance of the shopkeeper, 10-minute soba experience is also possible throughout the year. The taste of 100% ground flour, which I hit myself, is even more delicious. From late October, various apples with sweet nectar can be harvested. There is also a phantom apple group horse moon.

Based on a 300-year old private house, various experiences can be made. Farming or day farming experiences include rice planting, rice harvesting, potato digging, vegetable harvesting, cherry and apple picking (you can also cook vegetables from 800 to 1700 yen). The craft experience is bamboo work and walnut-dyed "Kusagi Dyee" (1000-1300 yen). The fun cooking experience is soba/udon noodles, konjac, natto, oyaki making, tofu, iiikki cooking rice, local vegetables with BBQ and rice cakes (1200-2800 yen). The historical temple tour and spirit cooking experience can be found in the historic temple at tea (Obuse, tea 1800 yen, and ginen Unzun 1800 to 4600 yen).

One of the workshops in Takumi no Sato. A picture is drawn on a 4.8cm × 5.6cm matchbox, and the picture frame is selected according to the picture, and finished with watercolor paint and markers, water-soluble colored pencils, pastels, etc. The fun of the house of match painting is to be able to draw small pictures, draw on boxes, choose foreheads, and use art supplies that you don't normally use. There is also a gallery and a café.

One of the workshops belonging to Takumi no Sato. You can draw and color your own face on the mold of Hariko's face. In addition, there are many traditional to contemporary faces.

Takumi no Sato is a "satoyama theme park" with a site of about 80 Tokyo Dome. In the original landscape of rural villages that change in four seasons, you can stop by the 28 Takumi houses scattered around the village to enjoy hand-made craft experiences, soba experience, and fruit hunting. The roadside station of the general information center is full of charm, including the Takumi market of a goods house where you can enjoy local produce, the Soba/Konjac experience dojo, a tofu shop, a cafe, a satoyama cafeteria, a rental bicycle, and a Takumi terrace where you can relax with pets. For a walk around the satoyama, we recommend a tour of the Wild Buddha and a popular straw art tour.

A museum in the roadside station Takuminosato. It displays 1000 pieces of material, including old documents, armor and living tools, and introduces the history of the city that flourished as Sugawajuku, the former Mikuni Highway. The area between the top of the old main team is also reproduced, and bran and the parapet show the atmosphere of the time. It takes 15 minutes.

Every year, you can watch the natural hatched firefly from early to late July in the vicinity of Taining Temple, and you can also watch the hydrangea that blooms in the precincts. At the time of the firefly, you can observe the manner and enjoy the observation.

The sight of a waterfall with a height of 20m flowing down the mountain is mysterious. It is said that two men and women who once lost their way drank this water and were killed by a deep edge.