Shiga: Okamura Honke Sake Brewery Guided Tour with Tasting

Explore Okamura Honke sake brewery in Shiga on a guided tour that ends with a curated tasting session of the brewery's sakes.

Getting started

Arrive at the Okamura Honke sake brewery in Shiga and check in for your scheduled visit. After a brief introduction, join your guide and enter the brewery’s historic spaces as a group. Once everyone is assembled, the guided tour of Okamura Honke begins, starting your deep dive into its sake-brewing traditions.

What to expect

Okamura Honke sake brewery

This experience focuses entirely on Okamura Honke, a historic sake brewery in Shiga. You explore its production areas and historic zones while learning how its craft evolved from the late Edo period to today.

Features

• During the guided tour of Okamura Honke sake brewery, your guide leads you through the brewery’s historic spaces and explains how sake brewing developed here, with a focus on methods rooted in the late Edo period.
• A highlight of the visit is the chance to witness the rare kibune-bukuro shibori method of pressing sake, which your guide contextualizes within Okamura Honke’s broader production process.
• The experience concludes with a tasting session of Okamura Honke's sakes, where you sample several different expressions and compare their aromas and flavor profiles side by side.