Sake Tasting Tour at Local Breweries in KOBE

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Inclusions / Exclusions

Mobile ticket
Offered in: English
Professional guide
All taxes, fees and handling charges
Snacks
Alcoholic Beverages
Sake tasting

Transportation to/from attraction

Overview

In this experience, you will get to visit about 3 of our favorite breweries located in the Nada area of Kobe. You will taste the differences between sakes—the highest quality, unfiltered, unpasteurized, and many other seasonable sakes. This tour includes an enriching experience in sake production. You will not only get to taste a wide variety of sake but also learn to appreciate them. A friendly English-speaking guide is present to answer any of your questions along the way. Come and join this thrilling experience!

Meeting points

Ishiyagawa Station
2 Chome-28 Mikagetsukamachi, Higashinada Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 658-0044, Japan

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In front of the ticket gate of Ishiyagawa station on Hanshin line.

End point

Uozaki Station
4 Chome-7 Uozaki Nakamachi, Higashinada Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 658-0083, Japan

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We will end the tour at Uozaki station on Hanshin line.

Itinerary

Kobe Shu-shin-kan Breweries

250-year-old, mid-sized brewery with about 13 workers.

20 minutes
Okage Tofuan

Snack time! Try some silky or deep-fried handmade tofu from a family-run business. Oishii!

15 minutes
Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum

This is the biggest sake brewery in Japan with an interactive museum. Here we will try sake, yuzu, and plum sake.

35 minutes
Kiku-Masamune Shuzo Kinenkan

Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery 1-9-1 Uozaki-Nishimachi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe City 658-0026

20 minutes
Hamafukutsuru Ginjo Brewery

One of the smallest breweries which has craft, unfiltered, and unpasteurized sakes. It has a locally-famous eighty-year-old sake master.

20 minutes

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Not recommended for child aged 19 and under
Minimum age is 20 years old

Free Cancellation

April 25100% refund

April 26No refund

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.

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Great sake tour in Kobe

Published on Nov, 2024

This was a wonderful tour of 4 or 5 (lost count towards the end) sake breweries in the famed Nada region in Kobe. I did this as an afternoon trip from Osaka, taking the Hanshin Line train from there to Ishiyagawa train station, the start point for the tour. Hiro was a great guide, explaining why Nada is such a good location for making sake and giving short histories of each of the breweries we stopped at. It was good to have a stop at Okage Tofuan for a tofu snack halfway through the tour. I bought a bottle of super dry Sensuke junmai ginjo at the Izumi Brewery store, which I’m enjoying drinking now I’m back home. This tour was the highlight of my trip to Japan.

Everything you want at a leisurely pace

Published on Nov, 2024

The tour was very enjoyable and educational. Aki-san was an excellent guide. Very friendly and passionate about sake. The tour was at a leisurely pace. Everyone had time to drink as much as they wanted and make any purchases without extending the tour past the estimated finish time. We went to 4 breweries. All had different flavors and styles. Very diverse for such a small area of town. Highly recommended.

Fantastic and cozy

Published on Nov, 2024

Fantastic guide, lots of good sake and information! I would recommend this to anyone interested in how sake is made and see the difference between different methods

Had a great time during this Sake tour. Definitely the highlight of my time in Kobe

Published on Nov, 2024

I highly recommend this sake tour in Kobe. The guide Aki was very friendly and excellent knowledge of Sake history. The Sake selections were delicious. Try the lemon Sake. It’s to die for!

A great afternoon

Published on Nov, 2024

Hiro was most certainly our group Hero for our sake tasting tour. Our small group took a few minutes to warm up, and for Hiro to understand that the American/Australian mix of the group were all very sake focused, not selfie focused visitors to the area. The group dynamic was really relaxed, and Hiro made sure that she spoke to each of us individually during the tour - our little street side pitstop for some drinks and rice snacks was a great touch. We all had ample time to shop at the distilleries we visited, and the tastings were well explained at each stop. For a short afternoon, this tour was well worth the travel from Osaka. My original booking had been moved by the organiser, which was a little bit of a shuffle from my schedule of the week (other tours and events planned), however the experience on the day was wonderful.