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| Farm Stay at Nakagomi Orchard's Inn |
| *If you want to have an experience of traditional Japanese life, you can come over and visit us. |
Concept: Nakagomi Orchard's inn & Farm Stay Program |
I can be your English speaking guide while you are staying at the inn and when you are enjoying fruit picking on the farm. In addition, if you want, I can be your lecturer and talk about Japanese farming issues at night for free over having dinner or tea. That way, your trip can be a lot more meaningful, I believe, since most of our customers are from city areas. |
| Location | We are planning to open our inn from June 2011, mostly for the customers who come over for fruit picking on Nakagomi Orchard.. It is located in a very quiet, peaceful area and is only a few minutes' drive from our fruit farm. The inn is surrounded by orchards, vege farm and rice fields with mountains nearby. You can see Mt. Fuji and the Yatsugatake Range very clearly on sunny days. |
| Accommodation | The house has a traditional Japanese style with a nice Japanese garden. Only 4-5 rooms can be provided for our customers to use right now. They are mostly tatami mat rooms. Therefore, if you make your reservation in advance, it would be much appreciated. Later on, I might remodel the 2nd house that I have behind this main house. Then, I might be able to have some more rooms for our customers to use. From this picture, you can't see another house. We have spacious parking lot and vege farm also behind these houses. (From 2011-2014, I hired many professional craftsmen to make the whole house to be a lot better.) |
| Farm Activities | Besides just staying when you come over for your fruit picking, if you want to join our farm activity, you are welcome mostly all year around. You can have an experience working on our orchard or vegetable farm for a few hours if you want. |
| Getting here | If you are arriving by Highway Bus from Shinjuku, Tokyo, I can arrange a pickup from Shirane IC West bus stop if my schedule permits. |
| Meals | (No.1 option) Dinner will be yamanashi cuisine at one of the local restaurants that are affiliated with Nakagomi Orchard. (No.2 option) I might be able to provide you barbeque on the farm if you prefer. We have 18 sets of barbeque grill right now. Each set can be used by 5-8 people on our spacious farm with nice view. I'm gonna build barbrcue site with roof on our farm behind this house during spring in 2011. Then, even in the evening under the light of lantern, our customers can enjoy having barbecue for their dinner. (No.3 option) Or possibly, I hire professional chef and he/she can cook and serve super nice meals at our dining room. |
| Joining our farming activity | If you are interested in joining us with our farming works, please let me know in advance. I might be able to create some simple and basic works for you. |
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  Our newly started vege farm |
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| To barbeque page We have ten of these grill sets. |
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| About Nakagomi Orchard's Inn |
| From June 2011, I will be starting Japanese small inn, "Minshuku". on our farm. Many customers from overseas have trouble finding accommodation when they come over for fruit picking on our orchard. Therefore, I decided to buy a Japanese style house surrounded by farms. Customers from all nationalities are welcome to stay overnight at our inn and enjoy fruit picking or farm activities if they like. The inn is located on a peaceful & quiet area surrounded by lots of high mountains with nice views of Mt. Fuji, Yatsugatake Range and Japan's South Alps. If you would like to go hiking, nearest hiking spot is only 10 minutes away on foot. you can bring your hiking gear if you intend to go hiking.. In this area, there are 15-20 nice natural onsen located just minutes away by car. I may be able to drive you there, depending on the schedule. |
| * This is one of the nicest Japanese houses in a town, I believe. The location
is also in very good environment surrounded by the nice view of Mt. Fuji, Yatsugatake Range, Southern Alps of Japan. There is no house around at all, surrounded by rice fields and fruit farms all over. |
| The fee with meals | |
| Adults or children who are older than 7 years old |
(No.1 option) 13,000 yen per person per night (No.2 option) *In case we set up barbecue for your dinner, the fare will be 15,000 yen per person per night. Then, you can enjoy barbecue under the light of lantern on our BBQ site. (No.3 option) I can hire professional chef and let him/her cook very special meals for dinner at our inn. In this case, I charge 15,000 yen per person including this dinner, simple breakfast and taking you to local onsen. |
| Children under 6 years old | 8,000 yen |
| Children under 2 years old | Free *Maximum - 2 children per room Please present their passport upon checkin. |
| Bed & Breakfast | |
| Adults or children who are older than 7 years old |
10,000 yen per person per night |
| Children under 7 years old | 7,000 yen |
| Children under 2 years old | Free. *Maximum - 2 children per room Please present their passport upon checkin. |
| *Camping | If you want do camping on our farmland, please let us know. |
| *Full service | Dinner will be yamanashi cuisine at one of the local restaurants that are affiliated with Nakagomi Orchard. I'll give you a ride to the restaurant, local onsen and to our fruit farm. The fare for staying at our inn is 13,000 yen per person per night. (option No. 1) In case you want to do BBQ on our BBQ site that we created right behind our inn, we might be able to set up dinner with BBQ. In that case you can enjoy dinner outside. (option No. 2) Or I might be hiring professional chef and let him/her cook a very nice dinner for you here at ouri nn. In this case, the fare for each person will be 15,000 yen and it includes simple breakfast and taking you to local onsen. (option No.3) The fare includes dinner, simple breakfast at home, onsen fare and transportation from local bus stop to our inn, inn to our orchard, orchard to inn, inn to onsen, onsen to local restaurant, restaurant to inn and inn to local bus stop next morning. Also, the fare includes the services of an English speaking guide while you are staying at our place. The admission fare for fruit picking is not included. *At public onsen, make sure that you have to be all undressed. If you hesitae to go there, then we have a bath/shower at our inn. In that case, the fare will be the same. *In case, you are unwilling to go to publc onsen, we have shower rooms and bath at home to use, but the fare will be the same in that case. |
| * This is NOT ordinary inn or hotel, but my private second house and I use it as inn based on lots of visitors' requests. Please follow Japanese way of manner while you are staying at our inn or on our farm. Unfortunately, some visitors from overseas have caused troubles & frictions in their manner so far, mostly because of their lack of the sense that they should have while staying here in Japan. As proverb tells us, "when in Rome, do as Romans do", please follow Japanese way of manner. That also can teach you how Japanese way of life is while you are staying here. That will be very meaningful trip for you and you can learn a lot out of visiting us. Thank you. Kazu Nakagomi Orchard |
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| *Check-in time *Check-out time |
Check in time is any time after 3:00p.m. Check out time is before or at 10:00 a.m. This is usual at any accommodation in Japan. |
| * Only cash payment (Japanese Yen ) will be accepted at our inn and farm for fruit picking activities. Credit card and checks will not be accepted. |
| ＊For June and July 2011, I may be coming home in the evening on Tuesday,Thursday & Friday. As long as you prefer staying on these nights, please let me know. |
| Reservation Form 090-1664-2921 Kazu |
| From April to July and October to December, Thursday・・・・・・8:30a.m.- 5:40 p.m. Friday・・・・・・・・・2:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m. I might NOT be able to catch my mobile phone during the hours that I showed above. Please try to call me during the other time. |
| For the info. of barbecue in case you come over to our farm as a day trip |
5 Startup Lessons I Learned from a Farmer |
