Farm Experience・Farm Stay
Enjoying spending time with locals!
You can choose between a short experience, or staying overnight.
For staying overnight: Relax in a local onsen, learn to make traditional food, try working in the fields, and get to know the real Japan.
Activities vary by season. In the fall, participants get to help in harvest activities like apple picking.
Other activites include tending to a rice field and making pickled vegetables.
During the evening, your host will teach you how to make kiritanpo-nabe stewーan Akita Specialty; Odate city's most famous dish.
Afterwards, enjoy talking to the locals and getting to know rural Japan.
You can choose between a short experience, or staying overnight.
For staying overnight: Relax in a local onsen, learn to make traditional food, try working in the fields, and get to know the real Japan.
Activities vary by season. In the fall, participants get to help in harvest activities like apple picking.
Other activites include tending to a rice field and making pickled vegetables.
During the evening, your host will teach you how to make kiritanpo-nabe stewーan Akita Specialty; Odate city's most famous dish.
Afterwards, enjoy talking to the locals and getting to know rural Japan.
For further details/ to apply:
Introductory Video
For short-term experience: Activity Details
Kiritampo Cooking Lesson
【Price】From ¥2,000 per person(+tax)
【Availability】Available Year Round (please make reservations 1 week in advance)
【Suitable Ages】Suitable For All Ages (very young children may be declined)
【Maximum Group Size】None
【Minimum Group Size】4 People
【Duration】2 Hrs.
【Cancellation Policy】3-2 days prior: 25%, 1 day prior: 50%, Day of: 100%
【What to Bring】Bandana・Apron
【Availability】Available Year Round (please make reservations 1 week in advance)
【Suitable Ages】Suitable For All Ages (very young children may be declined)
【Maximum Group Size】None
【Minimum Group Size】4 People
【Duration】2 Hrs.
【Cancellation Policy】3-2 days prior: 25%, 1 day prior: 50%, Day of: 100%
【What to Bring】Bandana・Apron
Soba Noodle Making Lesson
【Price】From ¥1,500 per person(+tax)
【Availability】Available Year Round (please make reservations 1 week in advance)
【Suitable Ages】Suitable For All Ages (very young children may be declined)
【Maximum Group Size】None
【Minimum Group Size】4 People
【Duration】2 Hrs.
【Cancellation Policy】3-2 days prior: 25%, 1 day prior: 50%, Day of: 100%
【What to Bring】Bandana・Apron
【Availability】Available Year Round (please make reservations 1 week in advance)
【Suitable Ages】Suitable For All Ages (very young children may be declined)
【Maximum Group Size】None
【Minimum Group Size】4 People
【Duration】2 Hrs.
【Cancellation Policy】3-2 days prior: 25%, 1 day prior: 50%, Day of: 100%
【What to Bring】Bandana・Apron
Farm Experience
【Price】¥2,000 per person(+tax)
【Availability】Available Year Round (please make reservations 1 week in advance)
【Suitable Ages】Suitable For All Ages (very young children may be declined)
【Maximum Group Size】None
【Minimum Group Size】1 Person
【Duration】2 Hrs.
【Cancellation Policy】3-2 days prior: 25%, 1 day prior: 50%, Day of: 100%
【What to Bring】Clothes OK to Get Dirty
【Availability】Available Year Round (please make reservations 1 week in advance)
【Suitable Ages】Suitable For All Ages (very young children may be declined)
【Maximum Group Size】None
【Minimum Group Size】1 Person
【Duration】2 Hrs.
【Cancellation Policy】3-2 days prior: 25%, 1 day prior: 50%, Day of: 100%
【What to Bring】Clothes OK to Get Dirty
Farm Stay Details
Fee
¥7,500 /person/night (+tax)
※Additional ¥400 heating fee/person/night
※Additional ¥400 heating fee/person/night
Availability
Available year round
※Please make reservations 1 week in advance
※Please make reservations 1 week in advance
Suitable ages
Available for all ages
Maximum group size
None
Minimum group size
1 person
Included in fee
Dinner (with kiritampo cooking lesson), breakfast, and hot spring entrance fee
Cancellation policy
3-2 days prior: 25%, 1 day prior: 50%, check-in date: 100%
Further information
Check-in: 15:00
Check-out: 10:00
The entrance fee for the local onsen (hot spring) is included in the price.
Please bring your own pajamas and toiletries.
Free pick-up and drop-off within Odate City limits is provided.
Guests will cook meals along with the owner.
Beverages (alcohol, juice, etc.) are not included. The owner will take guests to the nearest store upon request.
Check-out: 10:00
The entrance fee for the local onsen (hot spring) is included in the price.
Please bring your own pajamas and toiletries.
Free pick-up and drop-off within Odate City limits is provided.
Guests will cook meals along with the owner.
Beverages (alcohol, juice, etc.) are not included. The owner will take guests to the nearest store upon request.
Map
Cooking classroom or farmhouse in Odate.
For further details/ to apply:
Sponsor information
Odate Cultural Activity Promotion Committee
Kamidaino, Aza Inaridai 1-1, Odate, Akita, 017-0031 Japan
TEL +81 (0)186-43-7149 ENGLISH OK!
FAX +81 (0)186-48-6668
email: marugoto.odate@gmail.com
Kamidaino, Aza Inaridai 1-1, Odate, Akita, 017-0031 Japan
TEL +81 (0)186-43-7149 ENGLISH OK!
FAX +81 (0)186-48-6668
email: marugoto.odate@gmail.com