Fuefukigawa Fruit Park

Fuefukigawa Fruit Park is a hillside park and orchard complex above Fuefuki City in the Kofu Basin, an area renowned nationally as one of Japan's leading peach- and grape-growing regions, with the park itself built to showcase and interpret that fruit-farming heritage through a glass-pyramid Fruit Museum, demonstration orchards growing dozens of peach and grape varieties, and a hot-spring bathhouse whose outdoor baths look out over the valley's orchards toward the surrounding mountains. The park's hillside position makes it one of the best places in the basin to see the region's blossom season in late March and early April, when tens of thousands of peach trees across the valley below bloom in pink alongside white plum and cherry blossoms, a spectacle sometimes described locally as a valley-wide sea of pink visible from the park's elevated terraces. Beyond the blossom season, the park runs seasonal fruit-picking programs at nearby partner orchards, and its grounds occasionally host hot-air balloon flights that lift off from the surrounding fields, giving visitors an elevated view over the orchards and, on clear days, toward Mount Fuji to the south. The Fruit Museum's exhibits explain the cultivation history and grafting techniques behind Yamanashi's fruit industry, while the on-site bathhouse offers a place to relax after walking the park's terraced paths, a combination of agricultural tourism, scenery, and hot-spring bathing distinctive among Yamanashi's day-trip destinations.