Ginoza Stawberry Farms

About 45 minutes north of Chatan is a small nursery that has the best strawberries I've ever eaten! In our household Elyce is the queen of fruit. If she could eat fruit all day, she would. And her favorite fruit are strawberries. However, if you've lived on this island long enough, you've come to realize that the strawberries in the commissary are not very good most of the time and the strawberries in the Japanese grocery stores can be pretty expensive. I remember one time Elyce paid 600 yen for 6 strawberries. At the time that was $1.25 per strawberry! 

So when Carolyn and Jenny invited us to go with them to this strawberry farm, we thought why not. I knew Elyce would love it and I figure I'd get extra credit for going strawberry picking (which is a pretty drastic deviation from the usual manly things I normally do on Saturday mornings). 

Just a little info about the place. 1)You have to set up a reservation to pick the strawberries. 2) It costs 1200 yen per adult, not sure how much for children but it's less. 3) You CAN NOT take any home with you! This was a huge disappointment for us. 4) The staff does not speak English. 

I think I ate about 30 or so strawberries! They were that good. If I would have known we couldn't take any home with us, I would've skipped breakfast!