Cherry is in season now. If you enter “cherry” in the search on the website, you can get a lot of cherry mail order advertisements. Among them, “Sato Nishiki” in Yamagata Prefecture is very popular, and it is said that it will be shipped from July by reservation sale. These are mostly traditional open-field cultivation, but now house cultivation has become widespread, and in May or June, you will see the advertising flags of “cherry hunting” in the metropolitan area and Kansai. With the development of agricultural technology, it is possible to create the same environment in greenhouses as in outdoor cultivation and control the season. You can eat as much as you want for the entrance fee of 2,000 or 3,000 yen there. However, there is usually a time limit, and it seems that it is often 20 to 30 minutes.

サクランボは今が旬です。Webサイトの検索に「サクランボ」と入れたら、サクランボ通販の宣伝がずらり。中でも山形県の「佐藤錦」は人気が高く、予約販売で七月から出荷だとか。これらは大概伝統的な露地栽培ですが、今はハウス栽培が浸透してきていて、首都圏や関西でも五月、六月くらいから「サクランボ狩り」の幟をよく見かけるようになりました。農業技術の発達で、ハウスでも露地栽培と同じ環境を作れ、時期もコントロールできるそうです。入園料2、3千円で食べ放題、と言っても時間制限があって、20分だとか、30分位が多いようです。