Tokyo Sake Brewery Tour plus One

Food & Drink

Koichiro Y.

Tokyo
English
9 hours
Private tour (only you and your group)
Up to 4 people

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.

Meeting Point

At your hotel lobby in the central Tokyo

8:30 AM (or 9:30 AM) : Pick you up at your hotel, and briefing of the tour.

Notes: Times in parentheses are for the 2nd afternoon sake brewery tour.

Pickup time may vary with your hotel location.

9:45/9:30 AM (or 10:45/10:30 AM): 90/110 min. JR train ride from Shinjuku/Tokyo Station

On train, you will learn basic knowledge on sake, and see variation of Tokyo scenery from business/commercial area to residential area and suburbs.

11:30 AM (or 12:30 PM): Ozawa Shuzo or Ozawa Sake Brewery in Ome City

One of nine sake breweries in Tokyo.

12:00 PM (or 13:00 PM): Lunch at a restaurant in Sawanoi-en

Main dish served there is tofu, or bean curd, made with sake brewing water. Light lunch such as Japanese noodle is also available.

13:00 PM (or 14:00 PM): A sake brewery tour

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).

13:30 (or 14:30): Sawanoien

Sake tasting and/or shopping souvenirs for yourself, your familiy and friends.

14:00 PM (or 15:00 PM): 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).

14:15 PM (or 15:15 PM): Sawanoi Museum of Traditional Japanese Hair Ornaments (option 2)

You will apprecate beautiful lady's accessories in old times in Japan.

15:15 PM (or 16:15 PM): Tonogayato Japanese Gardens (option 3)

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

15:45 PM: Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Shinjuku or Imperial Palace East Garden (option 4)

The East Garden is closed on Mondays and Fridays.

14:00 - 17:00 PM (or 15:00 - 18:00 PM): Any other place 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 (or 18:30 PM)

What to Expect

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,

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Inclusions & Exclusions

What‘s included

Guide fee, hotel pick-up and/or sending off, traveling expenses and admission fees in the itinerary for your guide

What‘s not included

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


Important Information

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.

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
$271/ per group

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