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Stop At: Izumisyuzou inc., 1-chōme-9-6 Mikagetsukamachi, Higashinada Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 658-0044, Japan
This is the smallest brewery we will visit. It is run by four workers. They make 40,000 bottles a year. They make very high quality sake.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Kobe Shu-shin-kan Breweries, 1-8-17 Mikagetsukamachi, Higashinada-Ku, Kobe 658-0044 Hyogo Prefecture
250-year-old, mid-sized brewery with about 13 workers.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Okage Tofuan, 5-7-3 Mikagehommachi, Higashinada-Ku, Kobe 658-0046 Hyogo Prefecture
Snack time! Try some silky or deep-fried handmade tofu from a family-run business. Oishii!
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum, 4-5-5 Sumiyoshi Minamimachi, Higashinada-Ku, Kobe 658-0041 Hyogo Prefecture
This is the biggest sake brewery in Japan with an interactive museum. Here we will try sake, yuzu, and plum sake.
Duration: 35 minutes
Stop At: Hamafukutsuru Ginjo Brewery, 4-4-6 Uozakiminamimachi, Higashinada-Ku, Kobe 658-0025 Hyogo Prefecture
One of the smallest breweries which has craft, unfiltered, and unpasteurized sakes. It has a locally-famous eighty-year-old sake master.
Duration: 20 minutes
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2-chōme-23-12 Mikageishimachi, Higashinada Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 658-0045, Japan
01:00 PM
3 hours 30 minutes(approx.)
Uozaki Station, 4 Chome-7 Uozaki Nakamachi, Higashinada Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 658-0083, Japan
Wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Service animals allowed
Near public transportation
Transportation is wheelchair accessible
Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Most travelers can participate
Not recommended for child aged 19 and under
Minimum age is 20 years old
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travelers
Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Posted By : Curious63569992908
Great tour! Our guide was wonderful!! We couldn’t have had a better time! I highly recommend this tour if you are visiting Kobe or Osaka.
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Posted On : 2024-04-29
Posted By : 946rudib
A wonderful guided experience . We (party of two) received excellent instructions for our meetup. We arrived a bit early and so did our guides. So, we left early. Aki and Hiroko were knowledgeable about the history of sake and the Nada district, and also very friendly. In addition to talking about sake and sampling many varieties, we discussed aspects of Japanese culture and life much as good friends would. We were not pressured to buy any of the sake that we sampled. However, as we drank our way through Nada, we came to recognize our own preferences in taste—and we did buy some of our favorites to take home to friends for our very own sake tasting party. Because we were all having a great experience, both we and our guides agreed to extend the time allotted for the tour. Finally, Aki and Hiroko got us to our train station (“designated driver”) and we made our way back to our Osaka hotel where we were staying—an easy 30 minutes away.
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Posted On : 2024-04-01
Posted By : JMK-Pittsburgh
My wife and I did the Kobe sake tour with Seigo. He is a sake sommelier and an excellent guide. He took us to 5 different breweries and did a great job of teaching us about sake.
If you have any interest in sake I would consider this a “must do” activity if you are in Kobe or Osaka.
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Posted On : 2024-03-29
Posted By : Federico_G
Very knowledgeable and interesting tour, sake was delicious, small group makes it more interesting, an afternoon well spent.
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Posted On : 2024-03-16
Posted By : Anne_H
Ali was a great guide. She took us to four sake breweries, explained the sake making process and how sake is classified based on the processing. We also stopped for a little fried tofu snack along the way. The afternoon was unhurried and enjoyable.
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Posted On : 2024-03-13
Posted By : Angie_T
Wonderful experience with a good mix of small and bigger breweries. Our guide Aki was patient and sincere and speaks good English.she also took good care of my 71 year old father who had to walk more slowly.
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Posted On : 2024-03-06
Posted By : Jane_Q
Value for money. We had a great time with this tour. Our tour guides (Aki, Aya and Yumi) were very pleasant and knowledgeable of the breweries and its history. We enjoyed the different kinds of sake and appreciated the stories. Great exercise too!
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Posted On : 2023-12-15
Posted By : H1430MHsama
We were very much looking forward to this tour on our only day in Kobe, so we were quite disappointed when we received a last-minute cancellation email. And by last minute, I mean that our train was arriving at the meeting point about ten minutes before the scheduled start time - had we not had our eSIMs with data, we wouldn't have known that the tour was off.
Our guide had a fever and so there wasn't much we could do, but had we received the notice even a half hour prior we wouldn't have left Nankin-machi and essentially derailed our day. To their credit they tried to reschedule us for the next day and were nice enough to provide a list of places we would have visited with a full refund when we explained that this wouldn't work. We decided to visit a couple of those places but it wasn't the same experience.
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Posted On : 2023-12-02
Posted By : 67cassidyx
Amazing tour guide! Chisato was lovely and really helpful! Plenty of sake and a great learning experience!!
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Posted On : 2023-11-19
Posted By : ahP2957IJ
I've lived in Japan for over 4 years and this was better than any of the other sake tours I've done previously. This one felt the warmest and friendliest by far, with ample tastings and a variety of breweries to choose - from small to large. The main guide (bilingual Japanese/English) was also extremely well-versed and explained everything to us in a manner everyone could understand easily. I would happily do this again whenever friends/family come to visit!
Overall, it was a fun and enjoyable experience that helped me appreciate sake (nihonshu) even more. Highly recommended!
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Posted On : 2023-11-15
