Saitama: Matsuoka Brewery Tour with Sake Tasting

Explore Matsuoka Brewery in Saitama on a guided tour with a special sake tasting session and insights into sake and washi.

Getting started

Arrive at Matsuoka Brewery in Saitama and check in with the team for your scheduled visit. After a brief introduction to the site, you join your guide and move from the entrance into the main brewery facilities. The visit begins indoors, so you can focus straight away on the experience without additional logistics on arrival.

What to expect

Matsuoka Brewery

This visit focuses on Matsuoka Brewery, where traditional techniques are used to create a range of carefully crafted sakes. You follow a set route through the brewery, moving from production spaces to the tasting area as you explore how rice becomes sake.

Features

• A guided tour of Matsuoka Brewery leads you through the site, as your guide explains each stage of production and points out key equipment and work areas.
• You visit brewery production areas, seeing where processes such as rice polishing and fermentation take place and observing how the space is organized for brewing.
• Information on the sake brewing process helps you follow the journey from rice polishing to fermentation, so you can connect what you see in each room with the final drink in your glass.
• A special sake tasting session lets you taste a selection of Matsuoka Brewery's carefully crafted sakes, giving context to the techniques and choices you have just learned about.
• Insights into sake and washi highlight the cultural significance of sake in Japan and its connection to washi, adding a broader cultural layer to the technical brewing explanations.