Took my son banana picking at Kintarō Farm near Odawara. It was a lot of fun!
They grow Gros Michel bananas, which are generally hard to get, but are better tasting than the usual Cavendish banana you get at the supermarket. The story of how they got their operation up and going was also pretty interesting.
We got to try bananas of varying ripeness, banana juice, and banana ice cream.
Banana juice (puréed banana with milk; unsweetened, but naturally quite sweet) and banana ice cream
Cut bananas of varying ripeness
Inside the green house full of banana trees (actually a kind of grass, not biologically a tree)
Scissors in place to cut a banana off of a partially harvested bunch