Experience / Training / Vehicle Spots in Around Chichibu Area

  • Nagatoro River White Water Rafting
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    4.0
    169 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 489-2
    This traditional river rafting tour is offered each year from around March 10 to early December. Customers can choose between three courses - from Oyahana Bridge to Iwadatami, from Iwadatami to Takasago Bridge, and one course traveling the full length from Oyahana Bridge to Takasago Bridge. No advance reservation is required and tours leave every five to 20 minutes. A special limited time tour is also offered in winter which has riders sit in a toasty-warm kotatsu (heated table with a blanket).

    Took the long (in terms of time) train trip out to Nagatoro on a beautiful day, looking forward spending time on the river, planning to do both routes. When we arrived, we were told that I...

  • Chichibu Highland Ranch
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    4.0
    57 Reviews
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    Saitama Chichibu-gun Higashi-chichibu Mura Sakamoto 2951

    うーん、景色はいいけれども・・・ どうなんでしょう。 何にもないというか、それが魅力とも言えるし。 うーん。

  • Hodosan Ropeway
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    3.5
    36 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 1766-1
    Built on 497 meter tall Mt. Hodo, the Hodosan Ropeway connects the 832 meters between Sanroku Station at the foot and Sancho Station at the summit. During the five minute ride, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Nagatoro from the air. Starting with kanzakura cold weather cherries which reach peak bloom in late November, you can enjoy spectacular flowering plants here through to mid-June, including Japanese allspice, Japanese apricot, pheasant’s eye, cherry trees, azaleas, and rhododendrons. In autumn, the fall foliage is stunning.

    子供が宝登山小動物園を楽しみにしていたので、ロープウェイに乗りました。 とにかく眺めが良く、子供は大喜びです^_^ 乗車時間は5分ほどでしたが、秩父の自然を堪能できます。 山頂駅から眺める長瀞の街並みは絶景でした!

  • Komatsuzawa Leisure Farm
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    4.5
    13 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunyokozemachi Yokoze 1408
    A place for experiencing lots of farm type activities for the family, the Komatsuzawa Leisure Farm offers fruit picking, beetle hunting, and soba making activities in each season. Families can enjoy lava rock barbecue, and seasonal mushroom soup, and Nagashi Somen cuisine served to you by allowing you to catch noodles floating down fresh water in front of you. This is one place you will want to enjoy all day with the meal and activity savings package.

    秩父にある小松沢レジャー農園はいちご狩りや原木椎茸狩り、そば・うどん打ち体験が出来ます。 敷地が広いので、予約なしで日曜日に伺いましたが、人気のいちご狩り体験ができました。 品種はとちおとめで、12月上旬ですが、甘味と瑞々しさがあり美味しかったです。 その後、貴重な原木椎茸を取って、売店で天ぷらにしてもらいました。 採れたての椎茸は柔らかくて、臭みもなく絶品でした^_^ そば打ち体験は、イン...

  • Ashigakubo Fruit Park
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunyokozemachi Ashigakubo 159
    An area of fruit farms in Ashigakubo, Yokoze Town, Chichibu County. There are 13 farms in the area where visitors can pick strawberries from January through to the middle of May, plums in July to early August, and grapes from mid-August to mid-October.
  • Wadono Orchards
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    3 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Kuroya 457-3
    A three-minute walk from Wado-Kuroya Station on the Chichibu Line. Here you can enjoy quality strawberries carefully raised and managed using clean air, pure water, and the temperature differences between morning and night. The farm grows more than 10 varieties of strawberries, including Tochiotome and Akahoppe; the farm's original white strawberries have not yet been named. The farm grows its strawberries using raised planters and fully automatic growing systems in seven greenhouses, and, depending on the time of year, visitors can enjoy up to six strawberry varieties. The farm incorporates universal design principles, ensuring stroller and wheelchair users can easily enter and use the farm's facilities. The farm has been featured in local magazines and newspapers.

    国道140号沿いにあります。 日曜日の10時過ぎに到着しましたが、駐車場はほぼ満車でした。 いちごのビニールハウスは7箇所程あり、道路を挟んだビニールハウスを案内されました。 いちごの品種は紅ほっぺ。 採れたてのいちごは、みずみずしくて甘味も充分あり最高です^_^ いちご狩りの食べ放題は30分ですが、充分お腹いっぱいにいちごを食べることが出来ました。 子供も終始笑顔でいちご狩りを満喫して...

  • Chichibu Fruit Farm
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Shimokagemori 877-1
    A farm where, depending on the season, you can enjoy all-you-can-eat strawberries and grapes, Japanese ishiyaki barbecue, and an all-you-can-eat buffet. The farm offers tasty, highly nutritious agricultural products specially grown organically to be healthy for the plants and soil. The farm has five varieties of strawberries and four varieties of grapes. Chichibu Fruit Farm provides a shuttle service from the nearest station with a reservation for 10 or more people.

    びっくりして写真撮るの忘れました。 巨峰狩りの後、立ち寄った秩父フルーツファーム。 見たことない長細い初めて聞く名前のぶどうを何気に食べて衝撃(@_@) お腹いっぱいのはずなのにしっかり甘く美味しさを感じ、お土産に買ってしまいました。 1k 2200円 噂のルビーロマン(一粒1000円)より絶対いい‼️

  • Sainokuni Fureai Farm
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunhigashichichibumura Sakamoto 2949-1 Momo House
    Sainokuni Fureai Farm is a tourist farm located on Prefectural Route 361 in Sakamoto, Higashichichibu Village, Chichibu County. Besides raising dairy cattle and beef cattle, the Farm also has a variety of other animals—including goats, sheep, rabbits etc.—for visitors to interact with in the farmyard and in the pastures; visitors can also enjoy beautiful seasonal flowers, etc. There are displays on animal husbandry, and a range of hands-on experience activities to try. There are also direct sales outlets selling dairy produce and local agricultural produce; light meals etc. are available.
  • Higashichichibu Village Washi no Sato
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    Saitama Chichibu-gun Higashichichibumura Mido 441
    This facility complex with the theme of Japanese paper is located in Mido Higashi-Chichibu Village, Chichibu County. It is also called “Roadside Station Washi-no-Sato Higashi-Chichibu.” In addition to a workshop where you can observe and try out techniques involved with handmaking traditional local “Hosokawa paper,” they also have other facilities including a paper making building built during the Edo period, exhibits for traditional culture, restaurants and a food court. These are also direct sales stores for Japanese paper products and agricultural goods.
  • Tadakane Farm
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    Saitama Chichibu-shi Shimoyoshida 4091
    This farm is located along Fruit Road in Shimoyoshida, Chichibu City. Five varieties of strawberry, including “Kaorino” and “Mouikko,” are cultivated here with the help of wine compost. From January until around June, you can enjoy strawberry picking as well as interacting with the rabbits and goats that are raised on the farm. In addition, a nearby pond is well known as a spot for fireflies. For the duration of the firefly season, that begins in around mid-June, you can use the farm’s parking lot.
  • Chichibu Farm Village
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    Saitama Chichibu-shi Terao 2307
    This agritourism farm is located in Terao, Chichibu City. It consists of 18 local farmers. From fruits such as strawberries, grapes and apples, to chestnuts and shiitake mushroom, they sell seasonal produce directly and also have opportunities to pick them. Please make sure to contact the individual farms for opening times as they differ depending on the farm.
  • Nagatoro Furusawaen
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    1 Reviews
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Ido 511-1
    A facility situated along Prefectural Route 82 in Ido, Nagatoro Town, Chichibu County. The facility hosts restaurants serving zuriage (udon noodles eaten while parboiling them), shakushina meshi (rice with pickles), and other local dishes; a classroom where visitors can try making udon noodles by hand; a ceramics classroom; and a barbecue ground. Visitors can also try catching ayu and rainbow trout with their bare hands in the facility's pond or go river rafting.

    電車で長瀞に行ったので、駅から徒歩圏内のここでお昼にしました。片道2キロ、20分くらい掛かりました。なぜか川沿いではなく、林の中にありました。かなり大きなBBQ場なので、気兼ねなく焼けます。ただ駐車場は狭く、駐車できない車も出てました。一番安いコースでも豚肉と野菜が新鮮でとてもおいしかったです。もう少し近ければ行きやすいのですが・・。

  • Okiune Farm
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    1 Reviews
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Saitama Chichibu-gun Yokozemachi Yokoze 3126
    This farm is located in Yokoze, Yokoze Town, Chichibu County. They cultivate strawberries using organic fertilizer amid the fresh water and air at the foot of Mt. Buko, and the strawberries are harvested from around mid-December. Other than hot stone barbecuing (which requires a reservation) and getting a chance to taste about 10 kinds of homemade gelato, you can also pet miniature goats. In addition, rare white strawberries called “Awayuki” are available for pre-orders.

    横瀬にある農園です。いちご農園なのでいちご狩りができます。こちらはシャーベットを売っていて1つ300円から。農園でとれた野菜やフルーツを使っているので素材の味がしっかりしていてとてもおいしいです。とくにいちご農園だけあっていちごのシャーベットがおすすめ

  • Masakadoen
    Travel / Tourism
    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Arakawahino 584
    A farm open to tourists located in Arakawahino, Chichibu City. From mid-August to mid-October, visitors can pick some 10 varieties of grapes (varieties may vary depending on the time of year), including Chichibu Yama Ruby grapes, a variety unique to Chichibu with an edible skin. The farm also organically grows two varieties of strawberries-Tochiotome and Yayoihime-which visitors can pick from January to late May.
  • Ouchizawa Mikan Orange Orchard Association
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunhigashichichibumura Ouchizawa 490
    Mikan (mandarin orange) farms open to tourists located in Ouchizawa, Higashichichibu Village, Chichibu County. There are several mikan farms in the area and the region is known as the northernmost limit for growing mikan. Visitors can enjoy mikan picking at the various farms from late October to late December.
  • Chichibu Tourism Grape Orchard
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunminanomachi Minano 2528-1
    A grape orchard open to tourists situated along Prefectural Route 37 in Minano, Minano Town, Chichibu County. From early August to mid-October, the farm's shop sells 30 varieties of grapes and visitors can go grape picking amongst roofed grape trellises. The orchard also offers blueberry picking in August. Plus, visitors can enjoy barbecuing on a hot stone plate or watch the Paleo Express Chichibu Railway steam locomotive running nearby.
  • Mt. Hodo Robai-en
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 1766-1
    A wintersweet garden located on top of Mt. Hodo, a 497-meter-tall mountain in Nagatoro, Nagatoro Town, Chichibu County. Divided into east and west gardens, some 3,000 wintersweet plants spanning three varieties (soshin-robai, wa-robai and mangetsu-robai) are grown here. Visitors can enjoy the mountaintop view as well as the sight of the plants' flowers when they bloom from late December to late February.
  • Arakawa Line Kudari
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 531-1 Arakawa Line Down Information Center
    This river trip is held in Nagatoro, Chichibu county. This cruise goes down the Arakawa River and offers views of the natural wonders of Nagatoro valley, including Iwadatami, a National Special Natural Monument. Spring offers cherry blossoms, autumn is filled with fall colors, and in winter you can ride a heated-table kotatsu boat, so there is something for every season here. The information desk is near Nagatoro Station, along the back path to Hodosan Shrine.
  • Ichigu-sha ceramics experience workshop
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    Saitama Pref. Chichibugunnagatoromachi Nagatoro 726
    Ichigu-sha is a ceramics experience workshop located in the Nagatoro district of Nagatoro Town in Chichibu County. Experiential activities are available for making pottery with an electric potter’s wheel, making hand-thrown pottery, and decorating pottery, all taught by expert instructors. The hand-thrown pottery activity is also available for groups and families. Completed pots will be fired within a period of around one and a half months (one month for decorated pots).
  • Nagatoro Farm
    Travel / Tourism
    Saitama Chichibu-gun Nagatoromachi Nagatoro 750

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