Shiga: Kitajima Sake Brewery Guided Tour with Tasting

Explore Kitajima Sake Brewery on a guided tour with access to exclusive brewery areas and a premium-grade sake tasting.

Getting started

Arrive at Kitajima Sake Brewery in Shiga and check in for your scheduled visit. You first meet your guide from the brewery staff, who outlines the flow of the experience. After a short introduction, you follow them into the production spaces to begin your guided tour of Kitajima Sake Brewery and learn how sake is made.

What to expect

Kitajima Sake Brewery

This experience keeps you inside Kitajima Sake Brewery from start to finish, focusing on how the brewery works today and the ideas behind its production. You move through different working areas that are usually off-limits, hearing about the brewery’s history and brewing philosophy as you go.

Features

• A guided tour of Kitajima Sake Brewery leads you through the production process, so you can see how sake takes shape step by step and hear staff explain the techniques they use.
• Access to exclusive brewery areas lets you enter sections not normally open on standard visits, giving you a closer look at equipment, workspaces, and the environment needed for brewing.
• There is an opportunity to enter and photograph inside fermentation tanks, creating a unique visual perspective from inside the vessels that usually stay sealed during production.
• A guided tasting of premium-grade sake at the end of the walkthrough lets you sample varieties not normally available on standard tours while the staff discuss flavor profiles and how they connect to the brewery’s methods.