Sake Tour with a Sake Brewer

By Origin Sake Tours

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Explore the fascinating world of sake during your visit to Japan. Accompanied by an expert sake brewer, you will visit some of the country's most prestigious sake producers, learn about traditional sake brewing from someone with hands-on experience, and taste a variety of local sake, including fresh nama-zake (unpasteurized), barrel-aged, and the ultra-premium Dai Ginjo.

• Taste a wide variety of local sake
• Visit some of Japan’s most prestigious sake makers
• Taste ultra-premium Dai Ginjo, barrel-aged, and fresh nama-zake
• Learn traditional brewing techniques from a professional sake brewer
• Enjoy a guided Sake Flight with your host at an active sake brewery
• Visit the famous Five Villages of Nada

Activity location

沢の井
- 12
- 658-0046, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

Mikage Station
- 4 12
- 658-0046, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

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Sake Tour with a Sake Brewer

4h
English

Language options: English

Starting time: 13:00

Price details

P 8,533.47 x 1 AdultP 8,533.47

Total

Until Mon, Aug 10

What's included, what's not

All taxes, fees and handling charges
Taste various types of local sake
Guided by a professional sake brewer.
Visit some of Japan's most prestigious sake breweries.
Explanation of traditional sake brewing techniques
Guided Sake Tasting with your host (comparative tasting of different grades of sake)

Know before you book

Service animals allowed
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

沢の井

Enjoy a quick welcome drink in front of the crystal-clear spring water of Sawa no I well. This natural spring located is directly beneath the elevated tracks of Hanshin Mikage Station in Kobe and holds deep cultural importance both for the naming of the Mikage area and for the region's famous sake brewing history.

Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum

Our first stop begins with traditional sake brewing. Your guide is an experienced sake brewer and has experienced the Edo-period brewing techniques on display. He will be on hand to show you around their interactive museum and explain the various tools and equipment on display. This is also a chance to see the workings on a fully operational craft sake brewery. Free sake tasting is provided.

Kiku-Masamune Shuzo Kinenkan

Kiku-Masamune was founded in 1659. Today it is famous for continued use of traditional brewing techniques such as cask-aged sake (taruzake) and kimoto, a more natural, labor-intensive method that eschews additives. Here you will visit the workshop where dedicated craftspeople still make these casks by hand (subject to availability). After the tour, we will get to sample some of this traditionally made sake.

Hamafukutsuru Ginjo Brewery

Our last stop takes us up to the modern age of sake brewing at one of Nada's smallest breweries. Hamafukutsuru is a interactive brewing facility, built after the devastation of the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. They concentrate on the luxurious ginjo method of sake brewing, known for its light and floral brews. Here you will enjoy a comparative tasting of 3 different kinds of ginjo made from 3 different rice varieties.

Location

Activity location

沢の井
- 12
- 658-0046, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

Mikage Station
- 4 12
- 658-0046, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

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