Mnazuru Olive
About Mnazuru Olive
Manazuru Olive The Thousand-Year Forest
The Manazuru Olive is a visionary project that looks a thousand years into Manazuru’s future, transforming 8,925 square meters of historic mandarin orange groves into a flourishing olive garden.
The site is conveniently located just a five-minute walk from JR Manazuru Station in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is a place of breathtaking scenic beauty, offering a panoramic view of the entire Manazuru Peninsula. Here, we are currently landscaping a one-of-a-kind olive garden by transplanting olive trees that have been carefully nurtured for over 20 years in Nezu, Tokyo.
The Manazuru Peninsula, blessed with ample sunlight and a mild climate, has long been a thriving center for mandarin cultivation. However, due to an aging population and other factors, the amount of abandoned farmland has increased, making environmental conservation a pressing issue.
Our ultimate goal is to expand the olive groves across the entire peninsula, realizing a landscape of thousand-year-old olive trees similar to those found along the Italian coast.
<Completely pesticide-free cultivation>
We cultivate pesticide-free olives you can eat with confidence.
We produce our own olive dolce and olive oil.
<Diverse tree species>
While most olive groves in Japan cultivate a single variety,
we plant species from around the world cultivated in Nezu, Tokyo.
<Collaboration with the Local Community>
Working in partnership with local residents, we are establishing olive cultivation methods in Manazuru. We are undertaking activities to firmly establish olive cultivation in Manazuru.