Japanese Sake Breweries Tour in Fushimi Kyoto
Description
Joining this tour will give you an insight into Japanese history and sake. SAKE Master will tell you the secret of excellent SAKE. You will know the difference with your tongue. Let's have fresh SAKE! You can also enjoy a set of 17 kinds of drinks compared with the top image that is famous on SNS. Why not embark on a journey to find the best sake while walking the streets of Kyoto with a local guide? Enjoy a very scenic view. Let's go together. ・Discover Fushimi's rich sake culture with a local guide. ・Visit three diverse sake breweries for tastings. ・Explore the historic Fushimi sake district, one of Japan's top regions. ・Uncover centuries-old sake-making secrets. ・Gain insights into sake production at the Gekkeikan Brewery, established in 1637.
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Surprisingly, this building retains the original wooden brewery structure built approximately 200 years ago. In the courtyard, there is a well from which you can drink Fushimizu, the water used in sake brewing. Similar to Fushimi's sake, it is incredibly soft and delicious, so please give it a try. You'll surely be amazed by its smoothness. In the exhibition room, you can view traditional sake brewing tools designated as tangible folk cultural assets by the city of Kyoto. Gekkeikan Sake Brewery's special sake cup with a tasting of three Japanese sake samples included.
There is a boarding point for a pleasure boat called "Jikokubune". From the Edo period to the end of the Meiji period, this ship played an active role as a logistics hub connecting Fushimi and Osaka. At that time, it took seven hours by boat to transport people, sake, and rice from Fushimi to Osaka. The tour ends at the boat dock. The tour guide will assist you in purchasing a ticket if you would like to continue to the boat cruise.
Shop & Cafe "Fushimi Yumehyakushu." In fact, this building is repurposed from the former main store of Gekkeikan, built over 100 years ago. Inside the shop, you can find various Kyoto liquors and souvenirs, not limited to Gekkeikan. We offer a seated tasting set of three different sakes, including an appetizer. Please enjoy your time with us. For those who have participated in our tour only this summer, we are giving away sake ice cream here.
Kizakura is famous for its sake commercials featuring Kappa characters, but it is also the first company in Kyoto to produce local beer. Therefore, at Fushimizugura, in addition to the sake production process, you can also tour the beer factory. After the tour, you can sample sake and beer in the lovely courtyard. We'll present you with one glass of Kyoto Beer here, so please relax and unwind from your journey.
Fushimizu SakeKura koji opened in March 2016. This is a sake theme park where you can enjoy local Fushimi sake and dishes from all over Japan. With the support of 17 breweries belonging to the Fushimi Sake Brewers Association, this facility is a facility where you can enjoy about 100 kinds of Fushimi local sake.
I will take you to ABURACYO, located in the shopping district of Fushimi. Here, you can explore a selection of over 100 different types of sake, with a focus on ginjo and daiginjo sake from all 18 sake breweries in Fushimi. The collection includes not only regular selections but also seasonal limited editions. Moreover, at the in-store tasting counter, you can enjoy a glass or compare three different varieties in small cups. Just gazing at the bottles can provide a delightful experience.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Japan's summer can be quite hot, especially in August when temperatures often exceed 35 degrees Celsius. Given the nature of our walking tours, which involve spending time outdoors, we strongly recommend taking measures to prevent heatstroke. Please ensure you stay hydrated and consider using items like parasols for shade.
Reviews(13)
This tour was a great way to learn about the maki g of Sake and it's place in japanese culture. Bob was a great guide who had worked in a brewery. He could offer insights into what it was like to produce it and had interesting cultural observations as well.
Thank you very much for your wonderful review. We are delighted to hear that you were able to deepen your understanding of sake production and its role in Japanese culture. We also truly appreciate your kind words about Bob. We are glad that his experience working in a brewery helped provide a more insightful tour. We will continue striving to offer even better experiences, and we sincerely hope to welcome you again in the future.
We were 4 friends and our tour guide was so knowledgeable and helpful when we walked through the city and visited the tasting set of three types of Japanese sake (Gekkeikan Sake Brewery) company. After the tour we stopped at a Japanese Izakaya - pub type food and more sake tasting there!! He was great at helping us with the translation and ordering of food! We wouldn’t have been able to do this on our own as we did many things on our own trip but this was a necessary experience!!
Thank you very much for joining our tour and for your wonderful review. We are delighted to hear that you enjoyed exploring the city, the sake tasting experience at the brewery, and your visit to a local izakaya. It is especially rewarding to know that our guide’s support with translation and ordering helped enhance your experience. Providing opportunities that may be difficult to achieve independently and allowing our guests to fully enjoy Japanese culture is exactly what we strive for. We are truly honored that this became a memorable and essential part of your trip. We sincerely hope to welcome you again in the future.
What a great way to learn about and sample sake. Kimu was a great museum guide, sharing his knowledge and answering our questions. He also showed us around Fushimi and organized our sake-tasting experience. We had a wonderful time!
Thank you very much for taking the time to share such a wonderful review. We are truly delighted to hear that you enjoyed learning about sake and the tasting experience. Your kind words about Kimu’s guidance and the tour around Fushimi mean a great deal to us, and they will certainly be a great encouragement to him as well. We will continue striving to provide memorable and satisfying experiences for all our guests. We sincerely look forward to welcoming you again in the future. Thank you once again for joining our tour.
Amazing day with great tour guide. Sake was tasty and plentiful, visited two museums and an izakaya.
Thank you very much for your wonderful review! We are delighted to hear that you enjoyed the tour with our guide, as well as the sake, museums, and the izakaya experience. We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you again on another tour in Japan.
My husband and I had a great time on the sake tour with our guide Bob. He was very knowledgeable about sake and made it an excellent experience. He brought us to a little gem of a brewery. And we even brought home a bottle of sake from there. I wholeheartedly recommend this experience.
Thank you very much for joining our sake tour and for taking the time to leave such a warm and thoughtful review. Bob, your guide, is truly delighted to hear that you had a satisfying experience. The brewery you visited is one of our hidden gems that we proudly introduce to our guests, so we’re very happy to hear you saw it as such. We’re also glad to hear that you found a special bottle to take home with you — we hope it continues to bring back fond memories of your trip.
Very relaxed and friendly, the guides very great and very knowledgeable. The area was beautiful and very interesting
Thank you very much for your kind review! We're so glad to hear that you enjoyed your time in such a beautiful area and that our guides could help make your experience even better. We’d love to welcome you back again someday — all of our staff look forward to seeing you again!
My wife and I met up with Bob for our Sake walking tour. You do not want to drive after this one! The meet up place was very easy to get to from Kyoto Station. Once we got started on the walking tour it didn’t take long for each of us to get to know each other very well as we traversed between the different breweries and museums. My wife and I had a very delightful time. We discovered that Bob worked several seasons at a sake factory, learning the culture, trade and traditions of making Sake, which nicely accompanied his in depth knowledge of sake making down to the most minute detail of the process. We also learned quite a bit about how Kyoto became the center of the Sake industry. I must warn everyone, that understandably, the tour gets better after each stop! Hats off to Bob, we really appreciated the effort he put into our tour, if anyone is booking this tour in the future, you should ask for Bob.
Thank you very much for joining our Sake Walking Tour. We also sincerely appreciate your kind and thoughtful review—our entire team was delighted to read it. We are truly honored to hear that you enjoyed the tour with Bob. It means a great deal to us that you were able to feel his passion for sake, as well as the deep knowledge he gained through hands-on experience. We’re also very happy that you found interest in Kyoto’s rich sake brewing culture. Your comment that "the tour gets better after each stop" perfectly captures the experience we strive to create, and we are grateful for your kind words. Should you visit Kyoto again, we would be thrilled to welcome you back. We’ll continue working hard to provide an even more enjoyable and memorable tour next time. Once again, thank you for your participation and for taking the time to share your generous feedback.
We had a great Time! We got a deep insight in the sake production and tasted really good sake. Our tour guide Bob was really great: his English was perfect, he was very friendly and helpful with answering our questions. I would definitely recommend this tour to anyone who is interested in the topic!
Thank you so much for joining our sake tour and for your wonderful feedback! We're thrilled to hear that you enjoyed the experience and learned a lot about sake production. We'll be sure to pass your kind words on to Bob — he'll be very happy to hear them! We hope to welcome you again on another tour in the future. Cheers and kampai!
This was an excellent tour that I highly recommend! Our tour guide Bob was very cool, fun and easy to talk to. He also used to work in a sake brewery and was an expert on both the process of producing sake and the different varieties we could try. He took us to authentic locations that we would have never found on our own. I highly recommend this tour!
Thank you so much for your wonderful review! We’re thrilled to hear that you had such a great time on the tour. Bob truly enjoyed spending the day with you as well. His experience working in a sake brewery definitely adds a special touch to the tour, and we’re glad it made your experience even more meaningful. We’re also delighted that you appreciated the authentic locations we chose. Should you ever find yourself in the area again, we’d love to welcome you on another tour. Looking forward to seeing you in the future!
Our tour guide, Makota ( I hope I spelled your name correctly), was excellent. He already had background knowledge of the brewery process which made the tour much more enjoyable and was able to answer our questions. After the tasting, he also recommended other brands of Kyoto Sake that we should consider. Since we liked all the ones he recommended, my husband and son ended up buying as much as we could take back to the US. We highly recommend this tour, with our guide. On another note, our guide also helped us get back to the train station and told us which trains to take in order to get back to our hotel, which was a godsend. It's that extra service that made the tour excellent.
Thank you very much for choosing our company among many other travel agencies. We sincerely appreciate your wonderful review. We will share this feedback with the guide who assisted you, and I'm sure they will be delighted. In addition to the sake-related tour you experienced, we also offer similar tours in Kobe and Nara, so if you have time during your stay in Japan, please consider joining us again. We look forward to serving you again in the future.
