If you played Harvest Moon before you’re probably used to watering crops and caring for animals. Thanks to travel agency H.I.S., Hardcore Harvest Moon fans can try the real thing. There is, believe it or not, a Harvest Moon: Land of Origin tour. The journey begins at 7:00 when a bus leaves Shinjuku station for an alpaca farm.
So instead of seeing this:
You’ll see this:
On the trip, you can help out as a farm hand and feed alpacas. Then you’ll have an all you can eat lunch at the Nasu Mori Beer Garden and end the day by making cute pies with alpaca marks on top.
The Harvest Moon alpaca experience costs 6,980 yen ($90). Marvelous AQL and H.I.S. are running tours between March 4 and 31. Drop by and you also get an alpaca 3DS strap as a gift.
Published: Feb 13, 2012 02:35 pm