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Quick registration with the tour guide before we boarded the bus

Seating is always pre-arranged

Our Summer Mystery Tour touts:1.Herb chicken and All-u-can-eat OO. 2. Sample handmade apple pie. 3. Two fresh cut lettuces as souvenir. 4. Harvest your own bunch of grapes. 5. All-u-can-eat grapes, peaches and melon. 6. Enjoy seeing cosmos flowers. 7. Ride the high mountain train. 8. Visit sunflower farm. 9. Visit shrine of a historical figure. 10. Secret (Since my friend and I have seen cosmos field before, we skipped it to hurry to buy produce)

Our first restroom stop took us to a rest area in Dangozaka which was chock full of people, especially students (pictured is the food court area)

Around 11 am we stopped at this shop with a small bakery nextdoor in the middle of nowhere with NOTHING around except an unpaved parking lot where our bus parked

There's cold mountain water in front for us and the fishies

Paper cups are provided

The goldfish like the clean water

Everyone got to try their apple pie which I didn't like cause it had that puff pastry/danish shell. I only like the flaky crust in traditional American pies

The shop sells stuff usually found in farmers markets such as handmade jelly (with real fruits!)

And Yamanashi-ken's kyohou (Japanese grapes) wine

And also housemade jam

The bakery nextdoor uses their own yeast starter to make all their bread

There isn't a whole lot of variety of bread to choose from

Shelves are scarcely filled

Some are even left empty

I bought this large rustic rye bread for only 400Yen! (US$3.3) which turned out to be soft, full of a whole host of grains and had a toasty flavor, so YUM!

Rice paddies everywhere

Some rice paddies extend all the way to the road like this one behind the road sign

I took this picture from inside our moving bus