With sake brewery tours here and there, the entire Nada area in Kobe is as if it is a "sake museum." Why not enjoy a tour of breweries in the best sake production region in Japan?
In fact, you can go to these areas easily from Namba and Umeda, Osaka.
A sake museum incorporated with a restaurant and a café. You can experience 400 years of history and enjoy viewing exhibits such as tools for making sake, old signboards, sake bottles and labels. You can also have your original bottle made here as well.
At lunch time, enjoy a delicious meal and sake at the "Sakuraen" restaurant.
Through their exhibits, you will learn the traditional ways of making and enjoying sake. Photographs can also be taken while wearing Happi coats (Japanese traditional coats). The museum sells merchandise such as cosmetic care products made from sakekasu and limited edition sakes that are only available here.
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A museum converted from an actual brewery built more than 100 years ago. You can view the sake brewing process along with actual tools and lifelike figures.
Know MoreThe brewery makes "Fukuju," the sake served at a Nobel Prize banquet. Along with the 3 courses available for the brewery tour, complimentary tastings of sakes only available here are offered. They also sell many souvenirs, too!
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Visitors can view the entire sake-making process through glass windows. Tastings of "shiboritate namazake" (freshly pressed and unpasteurized sake) are available. Limited edition original items are also available.
Know MoreThrough their exhibits, you will learn the traditional ways of making and enjoying sake. Photographs can also be taken while wearing Happi coats (Japanese traditional coats). The museum sells merchandise such as cosmetic care products made from sakekasu and limited edition sakes that are only available here.
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The brewery makes "Fukuju," the sake served at a Nobel Prize banquet. Along with the 3 courses available for the brewery tour, complimentary tastings of sakes only available here are offered. They also sell many souvenirs, too!
At the restaurant "Sakabayashi", you can enjoy dishes featuring fresh fish caught in the Seto Inland Sea along with the sake of the season.
This brewery museum is designated as one of the Important Tangible Folk Cultural Properties of Hyogo Prefecture. It is popular among visitors from overseas as a place where they can learn about Japanese sake-making tradition and culture. They also offer complimentary sake tastings.
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A facility directly managed by Nihonsakari with the theme of “Enjoy real Japanese sake,” where you can do tasting of genshu (sake with no added water). It incorporates a glass factory, where visitors can experience making sake sets.
Try their restaurant "Hanazakari" and enjoy its Kaiseki meals (Japanese style course meal).
A sake brewery known to those who know the local area. Mostly sold directly at the brewery, their “Seishu Tokuwaka” is known as genshu containing absolutely no added water, boasting a rich sake taste and flavor. Why not go out of your way to come and buy a bottle of this choice genshu?
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Founded in the city of Sakai in 1770(mid-Edo period), this is now the only brewery with a wooden sake-brewing plant in the Nishinomiya district. According to the brewery, it adheres to their hand-making approach to preserve their taste, in contrast to the trend toward mechanization in the current sake brewing industry
Know MoreThe museum comprises “Brewery Hall” which displays a reproduction of the sake brewing process at the time of founding and “Memorial Hall” which exhibits valuable information about Japanese sake. Enjoy your lunch at "Hakushika Classics", their restaurant serving choice sake and gorgeous meals under the concept of "Flowers, Japanese cuisine and Japanese sake."
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Hakutaka Rokusuien includes a shop selling souvenirs and other items, a restaurant, bar and a multi-purpose hall. In addition, a number of exhibits are displayed such as daily life utensils which the brewery family used to use in the period from the late Edo to early Showa era. Their “Kura” bar also has standing bar corner where you can do sake tasting at 200 yen a shot.
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Hakutaka Rokusuien includes a shop selling souvenirs and other items, a restaurant, bar and a multi-purpose hall. In addition, a number of exhibits are displayed such as daily life utensils which the brewery family used to use in the period from the late Edo to early Showa era. Their “Kura” bar also has standing bar corner where you can do sake tasting at 200 yen a shot.
Know More RestaurantThe museum comprises “Brewery Hall” which displays a reproduction of the sake brewing process at the time of founding and “Memorial Hall” which exhibits valuable information about Japanese sake. Enjoy your lunch at "Hakushika Classics", their restaurant serving choice sake and gorgeous meals under the concept of "Flowers, Japanese cuisine and Japanese sake."
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A sake brewery known to those who know the local area. Mostly sold directly at the brewery, their “Seishu Tokuwaka” is known as genshu containing absolutely no added water, boasting a rich sake taste and flavor. Why not go out of your way to come and buy a bottle of this choice genshu?
Know MoreFounded in the city of Sakai in 1770(mid-Edo period), this is now the only brewery with a wooden sake-brewing plant in the Nishinomiya district. According to the brewery, it adheres to their hand-making approach to preserve their taste, in contrast to the trend toward mechanization in the current sake brewing industry
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A facility directly managed by Nihonsakari with the theme of “Enjoy real Japanese sake,” where you can do tasting of genshu (sake with no added water). It incorporates a glass factory, where visitors can experience making sake sets.
Try their restaurant "Hanazakari" and enjoy its Kaiseki meals (Japanese style course meal), too.
Kobe Area