A true sake utopia!
Yuttabi only!
Sake Brewing Experience Tour
January 24 (Fri.),25 (Sat.), 2025 (1 night, 3 meals)
Special experience of having sake that you were involved in making delivered to your home
5 Attractions of the Tour
- All-you-can-drink local sake and dinner with local ingredients
- Sake brewing experience at a historic sake brewery
- Participating alcoholic beverages will be delivered to your home.
- Healing Fermentation Lunch
- Stroll along the “Sake Brewery Street,” a traditional street
Tour Outline
The Yano Sake Brewery’s brewer experience is only available at Yuttabi!
Yano Shuzo, a sake brewery in Kashima City, Saga Prefecture, has a history of over 220 years and is one of the leading sake breweries in Kashima City.
Representative brands are “Take-no-sono” and “Hizen Kuragokoro.
The brewery produces sake that is much loved by the locals.
During the brewing season from December to March, it is difficult to visit the brewery, but with Yuttabi’s permission, we were able to experience the brewery.
| 14:00～18:00 | Check-in (Guesthouse Maru) |
| 19:00～21:00 | Dinner |
| 7:00～8:00 | Breakfast (Guesthouse Maru) |
| 8:20～8:40 | Transportation(cab) |
| 8:40～9:00 | Arrive at Yano Sake Brewery Preparation and change of clothes |
| 9:00～10:30 | Sake brewing experience |
| 10:30～11:00 | Tasting change of clothes |
| 11:10～11:30 | Transportation(cab) |
| 11:30～12:30 | Fermented food lunch (GLAD COFFEE) |
| 12:30～12:50 | Strolling along the sake brewery street |
| 13:00 | Dissolution (Guesthouse Maru) |
| Meeting place | Guesthouse Maru 1204-4 Hamamachi, Kashima City, Saga Prefecture Please come to Guest House Maru by public transportation or private car by 18:00 on the 24th. JR Nagasaki Line…1 minute walk from JR Hizenhama Station. By car…Free parking available |
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| Reservation deadline | January 22, 2025 |
| Clothing | Please bring the following clothing for the sake brewing experience. (1) Clean clothes that are easy to put on and take off and easy to move around in. (2) Shoes for indoor use. (Waterproof shoes are preferable, boots or rain shoes with the soles washed are also acceptable.) (3)Hat (one that can cover hair) (4)Towel (to wipe sweat) Please refrain from wearing perfume or other strongly scented items, nail polish, and natto (strictly prohibited from the day before). |
Tour booking
Dates: Friday 24 and Saturday 25 January 2025
per person
Main building Japanese style room
31,000yen per person (tax included)
Annex dormitory
27,000yen per person (tax included)
※Minors are not permitted to participate.
※Maximum number of participants: 6
●Accommodation
There are two types of bedrooms: Japanese-style rooms in the main building and dormitory rooms in the annex.
Please note that the rates are different.
Guests stay at “Guest House Maru,” a renovated ryokan (traditional Japanese inn).
Guest House Maru consists of two buildings: the main building with a Japanese pop theme and an annex with an exciting theme.
Towels and amenities are provided.
(*Please bring your own nightgown and yukata)
On the evening of the first day of the tour, we will hold a “Sake-nack,” a very popular event!
You will enjoy local sake from Kashima and dishes using local ingredients!
Selected as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings
Hizen Hamashuku Sake Brewery Street
Hizen Hamashuku developed from the Edo period (1603-1867) to the Showa period (1926-1989) mainly through the brewing of sake and soy sauce, and prospered as a post town along the Nagasaki route. 600 meters long, the street is lined with white-walled buildings, large sake cellars and samurai residences and is commonly known as “Sake Brewery Street”.
Tasty and Healthy in the City of Fermentation
Tour only! Fermented Food Lunch
After the brewery experience, go to “GLAD COFFEE” located in the sake brewery street.
Please enjoy a “fermented food lunch” that will make your body happy.