Nasu Senbonmatsu Farm
📍 Tochigi, Nasushiobara
A breezy dairy farm on the Nasu plain where you can drink the milk fresh as soft-serve, pet the animals, try archery or fishing, and — on calm mornings — drift up over the fields in a tethered hot-air balloon.
Out on the open Nasu plain, Nasu Senbonmatsu Farm is a working dairy turned breezy farm-park — the kind of place where the headline attraction is a really, really good soft-serve ice cream made from that morning’s milk.
Why It’s Interesting
It’s relaxed, free to enter, and crammed with small pleasures: petting and feeding animals, pony rides, archery and fishing ponds, grass to run on, and farm food everywhere. The signature thrill, weather permitting, is a tethered hot-air balloon that lifts you gently above the fields for a wide view across the plain to the mountains. Nothing here is slick or overbuilt — it’s just genuine, sunny farm fun.
Best Time to Visit
Year-round. The balloon flies only in calm weather, usually mornings, so come early if floating up is the goal.
Getting There
Easiest by car on the Nasu plain; taxi from Nishi-Nasuno Station otherwise. Entry is free — you pay only for what you do.
🐿️ Cinnamon was here
Field report
Senbonmatsu Farm is the Nasu plain doing its gentlest routine: a working dairy where the milk becomes soft-serve metres from the cows, animals accept your attention, and on calm mornings a hot-air balloon lifts you over the fields for a slow look at the mountains.
I took the balloon. A squirrel in a wicker basket at 30 metres experiences several revelations, chief among them: this is how hawks see me, and I forgive them slightly less now. The fields quilt out beneath, Nasu's ridge stands behind, and the burner roars like a polite dragon.
Back on the ground: archery, fishing, and the soft-serve, which tastes like the cows are showing off. Weekend mornings for the balloon (weather permitting), any time for the cone. Farm-simple, done right.
— Cinnamon 🐿️
📸 Cinnamon's camera roll
Snapshots from our very good boy on the road.
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