NISHINOMIYA-NADA ：Sake Tasting Tour at Local Breweries

Overview

Everything you need to know about the sake experience is here.
What do you want to know about Sake?
The process? The taste? History and culture? Want to find out what you like? Want to know what dishes go best with sake? Want to buy a special gift? Or maybe you just want to talk with other sake lovers?
Guides who love sake will talk about the history, culture, and sake making process in this city, where the history of sake brewing is said to have started in Nishinomiya, and help you find the sake of your choice and the food that goes best with it.
This tour is suitable for those who are interested in sake and even for experts such as sake tasters.

Here are a couple of our favorite sake breweries.
Freshly made sake is truly sake of the highest quality.
Other sake breweries include unfiltered, unfiltered, raw sake, and seasonal sake.
And experience the sake making process.
After becoming a sake specialist, you will have the opportunity to experience sake and food pairing.
Choose foods that go well with the three types of sake at actual Japanese supermarkets and fine food stores!
By the end of this experience, you will be a great sake taster!

Category : Sake Breweries and Tasting and food pairings
Tour Duration : 4 hours 1:00 pm – 17:00 pm
Included : English speaking guide / Sake tasting（Approximately 10 cups）/ 3 bottles of sake(DASSAI 23 and assorted)/Hood at pairing

Schedule

• 1:00 p.m.

  Meeting point

  Meet in front of the Ebisu Exit ticket gate at Nishinomiya Station on the Hanshin Line. (Hanshin Nishinomiya Station)
  Note: There are two ticket gate exits. Please come to the Ebisuguchi ticket gate.

  

• 1:10 p.m.

  First Place：Nishinomiya Shrine (Nishinomiya Jinja) (Nishinomiya Ebisu)

  Nishinomiya Shrine is the head shrine dedicated to Ebisu-sama, who is revered as a god of good fortune.
  Ebisu-sama is worshipped as the god of prosperity and business, and has become prosperous along with the famous sake from Nishinomiya, one of the five Nada districts.
  It is also said that Ebisu-sama appeared from the sea, and is said to bring great blessings to foreign visitors who cross the sea to visit the shrine.
  
  The main shrine, a national treasure, was burnt down in an air raid in 1945, but has been restored to almost its original state and retains its beauty.
  (It is currently under renovation until November 2024.)

  

• 2:10 p.m.

  2nd place：Sake breweries and shops

  Let's make a toast.(Kampai)
  We will sample two or three different types of sake at our recommended breweries.
  From a selection of about 10 different types of sake, your guide will select the recommended sake of the day(Nama-sake, new type of sake, Junmai-Ginjo, aged sake)

  

• 2:30 p.m.

  3nd place：Sake Museum

  This sake museum was built on the land where an old sake brewery once stood, using part of the building used at the time, along with tools and kiln space.
  We hope visitors can feel the sake brewing traditions that have been passed down through the ages, and we hope to convey the "spirit of Japan" to the world of sake brewing in a broad and deep way.

  

• 3:20 p.m.

  3nd place：Sake breweries and shops

  After learning about sake, the tasting will be more flavorful.
  We will sample two or three different types of sake at our recommended breweries.

  

• 4:00 p.m.

  4th place：Sake Food Pairing Experience

  Sake food pairing will be held in the guest room.
  We will have 2 other types of sake available (3 in total) in addition to DASSAI23.
  After tasting the sake, we will go to Japanese supermarkets and fine food stores to find foods that go well with that sake.
  We can't wait to see what foods you choose to pair with the sake!
  You never know, you may find a pairing you didn't expect.
  Come discuss sake with us.
  By the end of this experience, you will be a great sake taster.

  

• 5:00 p.m.

  Tour ending location

  Hanshin Line Nishinomiya Station