Once you exit the ticket gate, you're already at the antique market. Approximately 300 treasure-shops await you! Shops from all over the country offer antique folk implements from the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods, as well as calligraphy, paintings, hanging scrolls, porcelain replicas, crafts, vintage fabrics, and Western antiques. The Kanagawa Yamato Antique Market is sure to satisfy everyone from beginners to collectors. Many foreign visitors also visit. The market is open from 7am to 4pm, rain or shine.

Yamato Cultural Creation Center SiRiUS, a cultural complex, is popular as a place for encountering various peoples and cultures. In particular the main hall and sub-hall of Yamato Arts and Culture Hall can cater to lecture meetings and conferences of various sizes.

Izumi-no-mori spreads around the Yamato Suigenchi, the source of the Hikichi River. The park is positioned as the natural core of Yamato City. The wooded area and waterside space form a distinctive ecosystem, making it an ideal place for observing nature.

This plantation, where you can harvest produce by hand, was opened to the public out of a desire to let others experience both joy of farming firsthand and the deliciousness of fresh vegetables. Fruits and vegetables grown with utmost care fill the plantation from end to end. By harvesting them yourself, you will experience a truly meaningful flavor when you eat them. The plantation also has a store where they sell produce.

Ayase Shortbread won the Excellent Confectionery award in the 25th Kanagawa Excellent Products Exhibition, a sweets competition. This adorable shortbread uses Ayase’s famed roses and specialty pork as a motif.