You are interested in Sake, aren’t you? Sake is popularly explained as “rice wine”, but the expression is not correct. In this tour. we will visit Ozawa Shuzo in Ome city, Tokyo, and learn various issues on sake. After the brewery visit and beautiful Japanese lunch there, you will touch nature in a suburban area in metropolitan Tokyo.
At your hotel lobby in the central Tokyo
Notes: Times in parentheses are for the 2nd afternoon sake brewery tour.
Pickup time may vary with your hotel location.
On train, you will learn basic knowledge on sake, and see variation of Tokyo scenery from business/commercial area to residential area and suburbs.
One of nine sake breweries in Tokyo.
Main dish served there is tofu, or bean curd, made with sake brewing water. Light lunch such as Japanese noodle is also available.
The tour will give you further information and knowledge in the authentic sake brewing atmosphere, and then, you may try and learn sake tasting (tasting temporarily closed).
Sake tasting and/or shopping souvenirs for yourself, your familiy and friends.
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).
You will apprecate beautiful lady's accessories in old times in Japan．
One of nine Tokyo metropolitan gardens by dropping off at Kokubunji Station on the way back to Shinjuku.
The East Garden is closed on Mondays and Fridays.
Upon your request and as time allows.
At JR Shinjuku/Tokyo Station or your hotel at around 17:30 PM (or 18:30 PM)
At first, 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 gentle and kind "omotenashi" or hospitality, of people there,
Guide fee, hotel pick-up and/or sending off, traveling expenses and admission fees in the itinerary for your guide
Traveling expenses (for you): 940 JPY/person one way for 90 min. ride from Shinjuku to Sawai, etc.
Sake tasting (for you): 200 - 1000 JPY/person
Lunch (for you and your guide): 700 to 5000 JPY/person depending on your selection
Admission fees (for you): 600 JPY/person for Hair Ornaments Museum, 150 JPY/person for Tonogayato Gardens, 500 JPY/person for Shinjuku Gyoen
Any other fees and expenses (for you and your guide) during the tour
Inbound tour has been resumed. A mask is must still, but you can enjoy tour and cultural experience in Japan now.
[Schedule and itinerary may change reflecting Covid-19 pandemic situation. As of January 2023, the brewery tour is open but without free sake tasting and for limited number of visitors]
- At first, 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 gentle and kind "omotenashi", or hospitality, of people there,
- See calendars for available tour dates.
- If a guest is younger than 20 years old, they can participate the tour, but cannot taste sake by law in Japan.
- Meeting time will be discussed when date and meeting point are finalized, and it may be between 7:30 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
- 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 specially for you if he is available.