May 12, 2013 - 1 min read

Nakagawa Farm

Restaurant, petting zoo, meat supplier, party spot

By Michael Flemming

Community writer

Nakagawa Farm's signs advertise animals that can be petted or eaten

Nakagawa Farm is surrounded by crop fields

Enjoy watching a Basketball Japan League game while waiting for your meal to arrive, or watch the animals just outside the dining room

Horse, pork, beef, duck, chicken and goat are on the menu

The turtle, deer, llama, and turkeys are for petting only

The monkey is also not on the menu, but petting isn't allowed

Enjoy duck soup and feed the deer afterward

The prices are unvelievably low. This "Ranch Lunch" is 500 yen

Tofu Chanpuru with cutlet pork for 500 yen

Green peppers, onions and beef with soup and rice for 500 yen

My family's Sunday afternoons are dedicated to enjoying lunch and good times with friends. This week we chose an unusual business combination in Yomitan Village. Nakagawa Farm is a farm as well as a restaurant, a petting zoo, a meat supplier, and banquet hall.

The property features several cows, horses, deer, chickens, turkeys, ducks, rabbits, sheep, and goats as well as a monkey, peacock, llama, and turtle. The menu features horse, duck, beef, pork, and goat meat dishes. Signs on the wall advertise renting out the entire farm for a festive office or school party. For those preferring to cook horse courses at home Nakagawa sells raw meat as well.

The prices are 500 to 600 yen for most meals except horse, duck or goat soup that price out at about 800 yen.The petting zoo is free. Nakagawa Farm is located just off of Route 16 in Yomitan and is open daily from 10:00 ~ 22:00.