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Sake Tasting Tour: Explore Kobe's Nada Breweries
4.9
116 Ratings
Kobe
Embark on a sake tasting adventure in Kobe’s Nada area. Visit 4 local breweries, sample a range of high-quality sakes, and learn about the art of sake production. Book now!
Embark on a sake tasting adventure in Kobe’s Nada area. Visit 4 local breweries, sample a range of high-quality sakes, and learn about the art of sake production. Book now!
Duration:
3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Kobe Shu-shin-kan Breweries - A 250-year-old, mid-sized brewery employing around 13 people.
- Okage Tofuan - Snack time! Enjoy some silky or deep-fried handmade tofu from this family-operated business. Delicious!
- Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum - The largest sake brewery in Japan featuring an interactive museum. Here, we will sample sake,…
- Kobe Shu-shin-kan Breweries - A 250-year-old, mid-sized brewery employing around 13 people.
- Okage Tofuan - Snack time! Enjoy some silky or deep-fried handmade tofu from this family-operated business. Delicious!
- Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum - The largest sake brewery in Japan featuring an interactive museum. Here, we will sample sake, yuzu, and plum sake.
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Kiku-Masamune Shuzo Kinenkan - Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery
1-9-1 Uozaki-Nishimachi, Higashinada-ku, Kobe City 658-0026 - Hamafukutsuru Ginjo Brewery - One of the smallest breweries offering craft, unfiltered, and unpasteurized sakes. It boasts a locally-renowned eighty-year-old sake master.
What's Included
- Professional guide
- All taxes, fees and handling charges
- Snacks
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Sake tasting
- Professional guide
- All taxes, fees and handling charges
- Snacks
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Sake tasting
What's Not Included
- Transportation to/from attraction
- Transportation to/from attraction
Additional Information
This experience offers a visit to three of our top breweries in the Nada area of Kobe. Participants will have the opportunity to taste a variety of sakes, including the finest quality, unfiltered, unpasteurized, and other seasonal sakes. The tour provides an insightful look into sake production, allowing guests to not only taste but also develop an…
This experience offers a visit to three of our top breweries in the Nada area of Kobe. Participants will have the opportunity to taste a variety of sakes, including the finest quality, unfiltered, unpasteurized, and other seasonal sakes. The tour provides an insightful look into sake production, allowing guests to not only taste but also develop an appreciation for the diverse range of sakes. An amiable English-speaking guide will be available to answer any questions throughout the tour. Join this exciting adventure!
Conveniently located near Osaka, Kyoto, and the Osaka Expo site!
・30 minutes from Osaka (Umeda).
・40 minutes from Osaka (Namba).
・70 minutes from Kyoto.
- Not recommended for child aged 19 and under
- Minimum age is 20 years old
Location
Ishiyagawa Station
In front of the ticket gate of Ishiyagawa station on Hanshin line.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(116 Ratings)
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Ryan
Mar 21, 2025
Beautiful Sake Day! - We had an excellent time touring the Kobe Sake Breweries. Aya was especially helpful and informative. Loved the Yuzu Sake.
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Troywp6264yq
Mar 13, 2025
Saki time - The tour was a little gem, the tour guides were brillant, the ladies went out of their way several times for me and were so kind and polite it was 5 stars all round.
Simply the best.
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Johnjoseph_t
Jan 26, 2025
Many learnings - We had a wonderful few hours getting guided through five different sake distilleries with some amazing samples and some lovely local food.
It was only my wife and I on the tour so we got a really cool and intimate showing around not only the distilleries but got to learn some really interesting local history
Would reccomend to anyone wanting to learn a. It more about how sake is made or the local area!
Fantastic value
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Rachelfowler123
Jan 19, 2025
Sake tasting tour - My husband and I had a great time! We enjoyed walking around the city to the different sake breweries and enjoying the fun facts our guide had to offer. The breweries we went to were great, loved the atmosphere of each and the tasting!
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Gabriel
Jan 19, 2025
A great experience for anyone looking to learn about Japan's number 1 Sake region and try many different types of Sake along the - Hiroko, Jim and Sally were our tour guides on a Sunday to take us through Kobe. My group of 5 went and had a really wonderful time learning about the rich history of some of the oldest Sake companies in Japan, the process of making the Sake and about how the different Sake companies differentiate themselves. Their insights and helpfulness in explaining all the minute details of Sake made for a very wonderful time, and we had a fair drink of Sake along the way! They even made accommodations for our reservations after the tour and made a great effort to make sure the day ran smoothly for everyone. Thank you to Hiroko, Jim and Sally for their help in giving us a great experience in Kobe!
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P4746na
Jan 11, 2025
A fantastic experience!! - We had an absolutely incredible time on our Sake Tasting Tour. Aki was a FANTASTIC guide, she was so knowledgeable, so friendly, so welcoming, and had so many surprises in her bottomless handbag. We learnt so much about sake and Kobe.
It is a BIG afternoon with a huge amount of walking, so whilst it is not for the faint of heart it is definitely worth the trip to Kobe (we travelled from Osaka for the day) and will be recommending to everyone who is going to Japan.
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Osaka32
Nov 30, 2024
Great sake tour in Kobe - 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.
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Roving16611567258
Nov 20, 2024
Everything you want at a leisurely pace - 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.
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Martin
Nov 10, 2024
Fantastic and cozy - 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
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Deoind
Nov 9, 2024
Had a great time during this Sake tour. Definitely the highlight of my time in Kobe - 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!
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