Fukui Tanabe Shuzo Sake Brewery Tour and Tasting

Explore Tanabe Shuzo Brewery in Fukui with a guided tour, seasonal sake tasting, and brewing water tasting in one visit.

Getting started

Enter Tanabe Shuzo Brewery using your booking confirmation and meet your guide at the designated starting point inside. After a brief introduction to the brewery, you follow your guide into the production areas to begin the experience. The visit starts indoors, so you can settle in comfortably before moving deeper into the brewing spaces.

What to expect

Tanabe Shuzo Brewery

Tanabe Shuzo Brewery in Fukui is where you explore the art of sake brewing directly at the source. You move through the working brewery with your guide, gaining a clear view of how sake is produced and how this brewery's history shapes its methods today.

Features

• Entry to Tanabe Shuzo Brewery gives you access to the production areas, where you walk through the spaces used in the brewing process and see how the facility is laid out for sake making.
• A guided tour of Tanabe Shuzo Brewery leads you step by step through the brewing process, with your guide pointing out key stages and explaining how traditional techniques and the brewery's history influence the final product.
• Seasonal sake tasting lets you sample sake that reflects the current brewing season, so you can compare flavors and understand how time of year affects what is in your glass.
• Brewing water tasting invites you to taste the brewing water itself, so you can notice how its character differs from the finished sake and why this water is essential to the brewery's style.
• Brewing process and history insights are shared throughout the visit, giving context to what you see in the production areas and helping you connect each stage of brewing with the sake you taste.