JapanNewbie.com: Mother FARM

December 11, 2003

Mother FARM

A while ago I went to one of the most unexpected places I have ever been to in Japan...

MOTHER FARM マザー牧場

If -anyone- visits this site who has been there before, I will eat my hat.

Mother Farm is similar to Living History Farms, if you know what I mean. We have a grandLiving History Farms in Iowa! Oh, it was wonderful! The cows! The Corn! Petting zoos, games, events. Stinky Cow stuff... giant pigs... ewww...

Actually. It's kinda boring.

One of the funniest events they had at Mother Farm was a pig run with the kids. The kids had to smack their baby pigs around a race track. Some of the pigs would stop to dig in the dirt, and it was absolutely hilarious to see the frustrated children desperately smacking the pigs to get them to move. The staff looked like they were having the time of their lives.

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There was also a hilarious contest in which old people had to bail hay
as fast as possible. Weaklings!!! I could have done it! They should have let the gaijin on the job.

One of the most elaborate events they had was a sheep demonstration by a Japanese speaking foreigner who seemed to be from New Zealand. (Not that everyone in New Zealand is a sheep herder, it just seemed so from his accent. Really! I happen to like New Zealand. In fact, I want to live there some day. If anyone from New Zealand reads this please post a comment!) They had dogs running on the backs of sheeps, the man was man handling the sheep, dragging them around the stage. At the end, he sheared a sheep in about 2 minutes, and gave an entire garbage bag of sheep wool to a random kid in the audience. Now that's comedy.

Mother Farm was a great change of scenery. The area is very open and spacious. Good place to slack.

Mother Farm is in Chiba, you can get there from Kurihama by taking a ferry across the water and driving about 20 minutes.

-Harvey

Posted by Harvey at December 11, 2003 01:46 PM

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Harvey, time to eat your hat.

I've been to Mother Farm. Saw the sheep demonstration. Saw the weird Mongolian exhibit.

I went there the first time I went to Japan. My school in Atlanta had an exchange program set up with 君津商業高校. My host family took me to Mother Farm on the 2nd day I was there.

Posted by: zmcnulty on December 12, 2003 10:55 AM

What the heck?? You went to Mother Farm??? Unbelievable. NO ONE goes to mother farm! MOTHER FARM.

MOTHER. FARM.

I need some mustard for my hat.

Posted by: Harvey on December 12, 2003 12:17 PM

Sorry, dude. I've been there too. It's an option on the Greater Tokyo Sunrise tour package.

Just kidding. Never heard of the place. Don't know why but my Chiba host family took me to Nikko instead. :-(

Posted by: mdchachi on December 13, 2003 02:52 AM

I went there about 2 years ago too. I was with a tour group from Taiwan XD and they took us there. I even had the "honour" to feed the sheep (man, that was some bad experience, my hand, my hand!!!).

So Harvey, how many hats do you have now you got another site visitor? Heh, just joking.

Posted by: Larry on December 15, 2003 12:10 AM

Unbelievable. I really ran out of hats. Please buy me more hats. Seriously though, I thought no one in their right mind would chose to go to this place. I mean, why go to Japan, and chose to go to MOTHER FARM!?!?!

Madness.

Posted by: Harvey on December 17, 2003 02:21 PM

Nice site,Harvey.
I had much fun even though I cannot remember the Japanese I learned in the 80s.
Kind regards,
Steve.

Posted by: Steve Morris on January 3, 2004 07:18 AM

Harvey, only you would go to a place like this. Better yet, you posted it on your site.

Posted by: Jon on January 23, 2004 03:31 AM

Nice

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