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Tokyo Sake Brewery Tour plus One

Front view of Ozawa Shuzo

Travel to Ozawa Shuzo by JR train.

Young president of the brewery, Ozawa-san, and sake casks

Dark interior of sake brewing facility

Sake tanks in cool and dark storage room

Shelves for bottled sake maturing

Sake tasting counter in Ozawa Shuzo

Simple and healthy lunch of Soba, Japanese buckwheat noodles, with sake.

18th century village head's house

Tonogayato Japanese Gardens on the way back to Shinjuku

Gyokudo Art Museum

Garden of Gyokudo Art Museum

Early summer day in Shinjuku Gyoen

Tokyo Sake Brewery Tour plus One

Food & Drink

Joined 2020

Koichiro Y.

5.00 / 5

(9 reviews)

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Tokyo

English

8 hours

Private tour (only you and Koichiro Y.)

Up to 6 people

You are interested in Sake, aren’t you? Sake is popularly explained as “rice wine”, but the expression is not correct. On this tour, you will visit Ozawa Shuzo in Ome City, Tokyo, and learn about various issues on sake. After beautiful Japanese lunch, the brewery visit, and tasting of various types of sake there, you will touch nature in a suburban area in metropolitan Tokyo.

Itinerary

This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!

09:30 AM

Meeting Point

At your hotel lobby in the central Tokyo

9:30 AM : Meet up at your hotel, and briefing of the tour.

Meeting time may vary depending on your hotel location.

After briefing of the itinerary, move to JR Shinjuku/Tokyo Station.

10:35/10:20 AM: 80/100 min. JR train ride from Shinjuku/Tokyo Station

On the train, you will learn basic knowledge of sake, and see changes of Tokyo sceneries from business/commercial areas to residential area and suburbs.

12:00 PM: Ozawa Shuzo in Ome City

With 5 min. walk from JR Sawai Station, we will arrive at Ozawa Shuzu (Ozawa Sake Brewery) which is one of 10 sake breweries in Tokyo.

12:10 PM: Lunch at a restaurant in Ozawa Shuzo's Mameraku reataurant

Main dish served there is tofu, or bean curd, made with sake brewing water. Light lunches such as Japanese noodles are also available in Sawanoien garden restaurant.

13:00 PM: Sake brewery tour guided by Ozawa Shuzo staff

The 40 min. tour will give you further information and knowledge in the authentic sake brewing atmosphere. And then, you will try sake tasting with a souvenir sake cup.

The brewery tour time may change to 11:00 am (or 14:00 pm: Saturdays, Sundays, holidays) depending on booking availability.

13:40: Sawanoien

Sake tasting of some 10 types of Ozawa Shuzo's products and/or shopping sake bottles and souvenirs for yourself, your family, and friends.

14:30 PM: 30 min to one hour hiking along with upstream of Tamagawa river (option 1)

You will visit a local temple and/or a village head's house in the mid-18th century (availability on the day to be checked).

15:15 PM (or 16:15 PM): Tonogayato Japanese Gardens (option 2)

One of nine Tokyo metropolitan gardens by dropping off at Kokubunji Station on the way back to Shinjuku/Tokyo.

15:45 PM: Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Shinjuku (option 3)

Shinjuku Gyoen closes on Mondays and opens till 4:30 pm from 1st of October to 14 of March (till 6 pm from 15 March to 30 September).

15:00 PM: Gyokudo Art Museum for Japanese Paintings (option 4)

With 30 min. walk along Tama River, a beautiful museum for a master of Japanese painting, Kawai Gyokudo, stands beside Tama River and adjacent to JR Minake Station.

14:30 - 17:00 PM: Any other spot on the way to/in Shinjuku/Tokyo (option 5)

Upon your request and as time allows.

Ending Point

At JR Shinjuku/Tokyo Station or your hotel at around 17:30 PM

Want to personalize this tour?

This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.

Inclusions & Exclusions

What‘s included

Guide fee, hotel pick-up and/or sending off

Admission fee for Sawanoi Brewery Tour (for you and your guide)

Traveling expenses and admission fees in the itinerary for your guide

What‘s not included

Traveling expenses (for you): 1,900 (2,220) JPY/person-round trip from Shinjuku (Tokyo) to Sawai, etc.

Sake tasting (for you): 300 - 1500 JPY/person

Lunch (for you and your guide): 700 to 2000 JPY/person, depending on your selection

Admission fees (for you): 600 JPY/person for Gyokudo Art Museum, 150 JPY/person for Tonogayato Gardens

Admission fees (for you): 500 JPY/person for Shinjuku Gyoen

Other fees and expenses (for you and your guide) during the tour, if any

Tour Important Information

The brewery tour is operated for a limited number of visitors except on Mondays.

- See calendars for available tour dates, however,

- Ozawa Shuzo's visitor facilities are closed on Mondays, and their main restaurant, Mameraku, is closed on Fridays too.

- If a guest is younger than 20 years old, they can participate in the tour, but cannot taste sake by law in Japan (a juice will be served instead).

- The meeting time will be discussed when the date and meeting point are finalized, and it may be between 9:00 a.m. and 9:45 a.m.

- The tour schedule is based on 13 pm brewery tour, however, it may be replaced with 11 am (or 14 pm on Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays) tour, depending on availability, and the itinerary will be modified accordingly.

- Availability of the village head's house visit will depend on the owner's schedule on the tour day. The house is locked and will open especially for you if he is available.

You will be a sake lover and obtain sufficient cultural and technical information and knowledge regarding sake history, culture, and production, which you can demonstrate to your family and friends as you are a sake master. Your dishes and life will be enriched with a good selection of sake after the tour.

During the tour, you will breathe fresh natural air in Tokyo's countryside and touch the gentle and kind "omotenashi", or hospitality, of people there.

Ozawa Shuzo visitors' facilities close on Mondays.

Important message from the supplier

The inbound tour has been resumed. Wearing a mask depends on individual decisions, and you can enjoy tours and cultural experiences in Japan now.

Cancellation Policy

Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time

Joined 2020

Koichiro Y.

5.00 / 5

(9 reviews)

Identity Verified

Interview-Based Quality Checks

About Tour Guide Koichiro Y.

Hello! I’m Koichiro. Please call me “Yamasan”. It derives from my family name and my friends call me so.

I worked for a machinery company as a project manager and engineer for mechanical and electrical construction projects both domestic and overseas for over 35 years. I recall my first overseas project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia when I was 26, and the second was in Singapore. I visited many countries for surveys, meetings, commissioning, project handing over, and so on.

In 2014 at the age of 60, I decided to retire from the company and live the expected further 30 years of life with a new career and experiences. I, then, studied translation and guide interpretation. I passed the national examination for licensed guides (English) in 2015 and registered with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in February 2016.

Until now, I have been guiding many beautiful guests mainly to popular sightseeing spots such as Asakusa, Tsukiji, Omote-Sando, Meiji Jingu Shrine, and Tokyo Skytree, and also cultural experiences of Origami making, Furoshiki wrapping, and Sushi cooking.

I am happy that I can freely arrange a customized tour together with you, or can propose my tours to you. I want to show you some parts of daily Tokyo life and introduce you to Bunkyo City which is located in the heart of Tokyo, just north of Chiyoda City where the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Station are. The city is Tokyo’s typical residential and academic area where I was born, grew up, and live a happy life now.

Now, we can tour around the world but have not yet overcome COVID-19 completely. Recently, the number of passengers wearing masks on public transportation in Tokyo reduced to some 25% but we should mind about it still. Please carry your mask to wear it where or when necessary (December 2024, Yamasan).

Reviews

Anne L.

5 / 5

Oct 26, 2025

Japanese Gardens and Tokyo Life: Bunkyo City Customized Tour