Sankouen
5 minutes by car from the Tottori Sand Dunes. A tourist pear orchard focused on pears for 100 years.
Sankouen is a tourist pear orchard with all-you-can-eat pear picking, located about 5 minutes by car from the Tottori Sand Dunes. With a history of continuing to make Nijisseiki pears since founding in 1904, leveraging skills and experience cultivated through focusing on pears, the orchard cultivates diverse varieties — Yakumo, Natsushizuku, Shin-Kanse, Nijisseiki, Oushu, and more. On the grounds, you can taste freshly picked pears on the spot in great nature — and at the gelato specialty shop near the Tottori Sand Dunes, you can also enjoy "pear gourmet" like homemade pear gelato and pear curry.
Why We Love It
5 minutes by car from the Tottori Sand Dunes — a long-established tourist pear orchard over 100 years old. Starting with "Nijisseiki," the appeal is being able to enjoy pear picking of various varieties by season — "Shin-Kansen," "Oushu," and more. The "Pear Curry" you can taste on the grounds and at the directly managed store is a hidden specialty where pear sweetness and spices match exquisitely. The flavor nurtured by a history focused solely on pear making boasts certain quality — also for souvenirs and gifts.
PROFILE About the Company / Workshop
Sankouen is a tourist pear orchard founded in 1904 in Fukube-cho, Tottori City, Tottori Prefecture. Since founding, the orchard has continued walking focused solely on pear making centered on Nijisseiki pears. While facing nature's gentleness and harshness, working on soil making where juicy sweet pears grow — the flavor is now loved by many customers, even receiving voices like "I look forward to Sankouen's pears every year."
As autumn approaches, "Let's go pear picking at Sankouen this year too" — wanting to be a farm where people say that. As part of family and group outings, to become a place for important memory-making — continuing safe, reassuring pear making is also Sankouen's commitment. On the grounds, you can enjoy the experience of peeling freshly picked pears on the spot in great nature and biting boldly.
Pear picking is an all-you-can-eat style — the characteristic is being able to taste various pear varieties through the season. Using online reservations gives 100 yen off admission fee, plus pear gelato service — bargain benefits are also prepared. Equipment enjoyable even on rainy days, and barrier-free acceptance systems also responding to wheelchair visits — also putting effort into environment-making where guests can spend with peace of mind regardless of weather or age.
At "Gelato Specialty Shop" near the Tottori Sand Dunes, beyond pear gelato using Sankouen's pears, menus like pear curry are provided — also selling sweets, light meals, and processed goods. At the on-grounds shop and official online shop, gift pears, pear curry, and processed goods for presents are shipped nationwide. Sharing the appeal of Tottori's pears from both tourism and gift sides.
Going forward too, while inheriting the thought of "100 years focused on pears," Sankouen will continue delivering smiles and seasonal flavors to visitors through pears grown with nature's bounty and careful handwork. Aiming to continue being a regional tourism resource — as a pear orchard you want to visit across generations.
Good access — 5 minutes by car from the Tottori Sand Dunes
Sankouen is a tourist pear orchard located about 5 minutes by car from the Tottori Sand Dunes. Easy to stop by together with dune tourism — parking is equipped for 10 large buses and 80 cars. With about 120 seats of eat-in space indoors and outdoors combined, the environment is prepared where wide-ranging guests — tour buses, families, group trips — can spend relaxed time.
All-you-can-eat pear picking tasting diverse varieties
Various pear varieties are cultivated through the season — Yakumo, Natsushizuku, early Nijisseiki, Kosui, Shin-Kansen, Nijisseiki, Akizuki, Aki-Kansen, Kanta, Shinko, Oushu. From green pears with refreshing acidity and juiciness as appeal, to red pears with concentrated sweetness, to large-fruit late varieties excellent in storage — you can enjoy seasonal flavor differences with all-you-can-eat.
"Pear gourmet" — pear gelato, pear curry, and more
In addition to the on-grounds shop and online shop, at the gelato specialty shop near the Tottori Sand Dunes, pear gelato using self-grown pears and pear curry using pear puree are provided. Local shipping of gift pears and processed goods for souvenirs is also performed — being able to enjoy "eat, buy, take home" at once is also Sankouen's unique appeal.
LINKS Official Links / Social Media
- Official Website https://www.sankouen.com/
- Online Shop https://sankouen-onlineshop.com/
- Contact Form https://www.sankouen.com/form/
- About Sankouen https://www.sankouen.com/about/
- Pear Picking Information https://www.sankouen.com/parts/
- About Gelato Specialty Shop https://www.sankouen.com/shop/
- Official Online Shop https://sankouen-onlineshop.com/