Okayama Morita Sake Brewery Tour and Tasting

Explore Morita Sake Brewery in Okayama with a guided brewery tour, historic tea room visit, and guided tasting of 4 sake varieties.

Getting started

Arrive at Morita Sake Brewery in Okayama during the operating season from April to October. Check in with the staff and meet your guide, who will introduce the visit plan. After a brief orientation, you start the on-site walk that leads into the production areas of the brewery.

What to expect

Morita Sake Brewery

This visit focuses on Morita Sake Brewery, where you explore how its sake is produced and why it holds a place in Japanese culture. The experience connects brewing techniques with the wider history of sake and tea in Japan.

Features

• A guided tour of Morita Sake Brewery takes you through the facility while you learn about the history of Morita Sake Brewery and its brewing philosophy, with context on how sake developed in Japan.
• Your guide helps you immerse yourself in the rich history of sake and tea at Morita Brewery, explaining the cultural significance of both drinks in Japanese culture as you move through the site.
• A guided sake tasting of 4 varieties produced by Morita lets you compare four popular sake styles side by side, with commentary on flavor profiles and how each one fits into local drinking traditions.

Historic tea room linked to Sen no Rikyu

After exploring the brewery, the tour continues into a historic tea space connected with one of Japan's most influential tea figures, Sen no Rikyu. This stop highlights how tea culture intersects with the world of sake.

Features

• A visit to a historic tea room linked to the famous tea master Sen no Rikyu shows you a traditional setting where the aesthetics and structure of the room reflect Japanese tea ceremony values.
• Inside this tea room, you discover more about the cultural significance of tea in Japanese culture, and how this tradition relates to the broader story of Morita Brewery and its surroundings.