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Sake Tour with a Sake Brewer

By Origin Sake Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is P 8,462 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Overview

Nada in Kobe is the undisputed sake capital of Japan. What better way to explore it than with an expert brewer with experience working at one of its most famous breweries. During this tour, you will visit some of the country's most prestigious producers and taste a variety of local sake, including fresh Nama, Barrel-aged, and the ultra-premium Dai Ginjo.

This tour goes beyond superficial explanations and free tastings. Instead, you will learn about traditional brewing techniques from someone with first-hand experience, taste the best local sake, and learn the secrets of the local brewing culture. You will finish with a comparative tasting of three sake made from three different rice varieties.

• 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
• Learn traditional brewing techniques from a professional sake brewer
• Enjoy a guided Sake Flight with your host at an active sake brewery

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

  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 13:00
Price details
P 8,461.86 x 1 AdultP 8,461.86
Total
Price is P 8,461.86
Until Mon, Aug 17

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    All taxes, fees and handling charges
  • Inclusions
    Taste various types of local sake
  • Inclusions
    Guided by a professional sake brewer.
  • Inclusions
    Visit some of Japan's most prestigious sake breweries.
  • Inclusions
    Explanation of traditional sake brewing techniques
  • Inclusions
    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

  • 10m
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

  • 1h
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

  • 1h
Our first stop is Kiku-Masamune, founded in 1659. Today they are famous for their continued use of traditional brewing techniques such as cask-aged sake (taruzake) and the natural kimoto method. Here you will visit the workshop where dedicated craftspeople still make these casks by hand (subject to availability) and try the sake aged in them based on a traditional Edo-period (1603-1868) recipe.

Hamafukutsuru Ginjo Brewery

  • 1h
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

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

Meeting/Redemption Point

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

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