Fukui: Kitazen Shoten Sake Brewery Tour and Tasting

Explore Kitazen Shoten Sake Brewery on a guided brewery tour capped with a curated sake tasting session in Minamiechizen Town.

Getting started

Enter Kitazen Shoten Sake Brewery using your booking confirmation at the designated start time. After check-in, you join your group inside the brewery in Minamiechizen Town. A guide then introduces the visit outline and leads you into the production areas, where the guided brewery tour begins.

What to expect

Kitazen Shoten Sake Brewery

Kitazen Shoten Sake Brewery is a working brewery that represents the sake tradition of Fukui, set in Minamiechizen Town. Your time here focuses on how the brewery thinks about its craft, followed by a tasting that lets you compare different styles side by side.

Features

• The guided brewery tour takes you through the core areas of Kitazen Shoten Shoten Brewery, where a guide explains how this brewery fits into the wider world of sake and what makes its production in Fukui distinctive. As you move through the site, you see the spaces that shape the brewery’s history and philosophy in practice.
• Entry to Kitazen Shoten Sake Brewery is included with this experience, so you can follow your guide through the interior areas without handling separate tickets at each stage. The structured route keeps the focus on observing the brewery environment while you listen to the explanations.
• A sake tasting session rounds off the visit, with a curated selection of the brewery’s sake poured for you to sample. Staff guide you through each pour, helping you notice differences between the varieties produced here in Minamiechizen Town and how they connect back to the brewing approach you just learned about.