Takayama's Oldest Sake Brewery Tour

Immerse yourself in Japan’s oldest sake brewing tradition with a tour of Takayama’s sake breweries. Explore the city’s rich history and taste the finest sake in the world. Book now!

Duration: 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Hirase Shuzo Brewery - Visitors can tour the facility and participate in a tasting session here.
What's Included
  • Visit Sake facilities & Kura
  • Tax included
  • English-speaking guide
  • Sake tasting experience
What's Not Included
  • Any other things
Additional Information

Takayama city had 56 brewers more than 300 years ago. Good water and good environment made lot’s of Sake brewer.
Now there are 7 brewers inside 200m area remain cityside of Takayama.
(This density is very rare things in all over the world.)
You can see the oldest & biggest sake brewery in our tour.
If you need other language guide, please let us know….

Location
22 Kamininomachi
HappyPlus Tour desk. In front of 'Tours & Activities' sign board. You can search 'Happy plus' in Google map.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Sunshine62560616828
Mar 2, 2025
At Golden Week - My friend had a really fun brewery tour! I'm glad you said that and joined us! I also learned a lot about explanations and enjoyed tasting everything from liqueur to Junmai Ginjo and draft sake!
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N8819xhteresah
Feb 23, 2025
Behind the scenes sake tour - Great tour learning about the history of sake in Takayama and with the ability to try many types of sake. The tour guide gave us a behind the scenes tour of the sake brewery.
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561sarahu
Nov 15, 2024
Highly recommend ! - We visited Takayama because we heard that it's so relaxing and different from Tokyo. But yes it was true ! also attending this tour was a great idea. We could try many types of Japanese food and really enjoyed Takayama a lot!
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Mathieupx8002sh
Aug 14, 2024
Wonderfull experience ! - Mu has been a wonderfull guide ! We have learn a lot about Sake and Takayam thanks to her. I would jighly recommend to book this tour before anything in Takayama to have local flavour about life ! Thanks again Mu : Celia et Mathieu
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Ajal2017
Jun 23, 2024
Excellent tour to learn about Sake - The Sake Brewery tour was very informative thank you to our knowledgeable guide Yama. It was very interesting to learn about the Sake making process and sample some very nice kinds, Kanpai!
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Road33637514512
May 20, 2024
Mui was an amazing guide! - We visited the oldest Sake Brewery in Takayama with our guide Mui. She was amazing! She explained everything so well. We learned a lot about the brewing process, as well as the history of Takayama. I would definitely recommend booking a tour with Mui!
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Kashklan
Apr 27, 2024
Interesting insight into brewing sake - We were so fortunate to be the only guests for the tour, so we had the undivided attention of our guide. She was thorough and answered all of our questions with patience.
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Katarzyna_b
Apr 22, 2024
Sake brewery sightseeing solo - It was a good event, although the group was very small (3 people + guide) and it felt a bit awkward. But the history of brewery and tasting sake was very nice ^^
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Kristie_k
Oct 24, 2024
Rushed and unengaged - Our tour guide was informative and polite, but seemed unenthusiastic about being at work and unengaged with the group on the tour. He rushed through his explanations and the sake tasting so quickly that even the 20 something’s in the group were not keeping up.
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Uri_b
Apr 13, 2024
Short and uninspired - The tour was super short and not very informative. It took about 15 minutes once we got into the brewery (not including the tasting). The guides English and was barely acceptable. One of the group was FaceTiming the entire thing and was loud and obnoxious and the guide said nothing. Really bad atmosphere. Tasting was just Ok with very little information about what we’re tasting except the type of the rice - nothing about the different methods that were used to create each one. We also only got to try 4 types of sake and one type of yuzushu. All in all I wish I hadn’t booked it and just went to do the tasting alone - like I’m doing in the other breweries in the area.
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up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).