Pear Picking in Higashimatsuyama 2020

Higashimatsuyama is famous for pear picking. There are close to 20 pear farms in Higashimatsuyama of which about half offer picking. This event post shares information of the main pear picking farms in Higashimatsuyama.

Pear picking in Higashimatsuyama

Pear picking season starts in early September in Higashimatsuyama (Saitama, Japan). It generally lasts until at least early October, often mid October. The standard price is 500 yen admission fee to the pear farms and 500 yen per kilo of pears. Varieties include Kousui, Chojuro, Housui and Niitaka.

Pear Orchards

Most of the farms are located in the Higashidaira area of Higashimatsuyama, which is located close to main route 407 and commutable from the Tobu Tojo line Higashimatsuyama station too. A couple of the pear orchards are also close to Shinrinkoen station, also on the Tobu Tojo line. They are all mapped below. Most of the pear orchards not only have no website, they weren’t on Google maps either! I’ve added them by their co-ordinates on the map below.

①Yanagisawa Kyo Pear Orchard – phone: +81493230320

②Ueda Pear Orchard – phone: 0493-22-2591

③Nashiyasan A – phone: 090-4089-2681

❹Nashiyasan B – phone: 090-4089-2681

⑤Nashikko Farm – phone: 090-4810-1374

⑥Waku Waku Farm – phone: 0493-24-1131

⑦Yanagisawari Farm – phone: 090-9144-4551

❽Kato farm – phone: 0493-22-4277

⑨Kato pear orchard – phone: 0493-24-0567

With the Coronavirus situation, many things have changed. Please do phone in advance to make sure the farm is open the day you want to go and to get more specific directions to the orchard you want to go to. The Higashimatsuyama city official website also have them (and pear selling shops) mapped out here (click).

Things to do in Higashimatsuyama

How about a riverside barbecue after you pick your own pears? Kurakake BBQ area in Higashimatsuyama is a lovely place for river play and riverside barbecuing. It is also one of the most popular blog posts on In Saitama in 2020!

Saitama Children’s Zoo is without doubt Higashimatsuyama City’s top attraction, but you will also find dozens of other things to do in Higashimatsuyama on this blog, a small sample:

• Higashimatsuyama Agriculture Park and Heuvel Cafe
• Peace Museum of Saitama 2020 | HIGASHIMATSUYAMA
• Garden and Cafe Prunus | HIGASHIMATSUYAMA
• Yakyu Inari Shrine, the Baseball Shrine| Higashimatsuyama
• Botanen Playground | HIGASHIMATSUYAMA

September is also grape picking season in Saitama. Some of the vineyards didn’t open this year on account of the Coronavirus, but one of the most famous – in Tokorozawa – is open and season has began.