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Akashi Shurui Sake Brewery and Distillery Tour with Tastings

By Yummy Guide inc.
Free cancellation available
Price is £94 per adult

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m+
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Choose between a sake brewery tour, a whisky distillery tour, or both tour
  • Enter active production areas with expert guidance
  • Rare opportunity to nose freshly distilled whisky spirit
  • Taste sake and ageing whisky in one location
  • Experience spirits at different stages of creation

Activity location

    • Akashi
    • Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • 日本、〒673-0871 兵庫県明石市大蔵八幡町1−6 | Please come directly to the entrance. If you arrive early, feel free to wait outside. Our staff will be inside—just let someone know you're here for Sake Tasting, and we’ll come greet you and confirm your booking.
    • Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Distillery Tour with New Spirit Nosing and Whisky Tasting
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English

Explore the distillery, nose new make spirit, and taste ageing whisky shaping future single malts.

Price details
£94.17 x 1 Adult£94.17
Total
Price is £94.17
Sake Brewery Tour and Tasting
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English

Guided tour of the sake brewery with production insights and sake tasting experience.

Price details
£94.17 x 1 Adult£94.17
Total
Price is £94.17
Sake Brewery and Whisky Distillery Full Experience
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • English

Complete experience including sake brewery tour, distillery tour, new spirit nosing, and tasting of sake and whisky.

Price details
£188.34 x 1 Adult£188.34
Total
Price is £188.34

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guided tour
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    sake tour-
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    Sake brewery access
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    Sake tasting
  • What's includedWhat's included
    whisky tour-
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    Whisky distillery access
  • What's includedWhat's included
    New spirit nosing
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Whisky tasting
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Transport to/from Akashi Shurui Jozo
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Dishes or additional drinks
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    Travel insurance

Know before you book

  • Not allowed: Pets, Smoking
  • Not suitable for: People under 20 years, Pregnant women
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Discover two distinct Japanese spirits in one place at the facilities of Akashi Shurui Jozo, where traditional sake brewing and modern whisky distillation coexist. This guided experience allows you to choose between a sake brewery tour, a whisky distillery tour, or a full experience combining both, offering a rare opportunity to understand the philosophies and techniques behind each craft. Your journey begins in the visitor centre, where your guide introduces the history, environment, and production mindset that shape both sake and whisky. Guests selecting the sake brewery tour will step into the brewing area to learn how rice, water, and fermentation create sake’s delicate balance, while gaining insight into seasonal work, craftsmanship, and the subtle decisions that influence flavour. The experience concludes with a guided sake tasting, allowing you to connect production with taste and understand the character of the brewery’s creations. Guests selecting the whisky distillery tour will enter the Kaikyo Distillery, beginning with an explanation in the seminar room before moving into the mash tun room and distillation area. Here, you will observe the equipment and environment where whisky begins its transformation. A highlight of the experience is the rare opportunity to nose freshly distilled spirit, allowing you to encounter whisky at its earliest stage before maturation. The tour concludes with a guided tasting of ageing whiskies, including components that will form future Kaikyo single malt releases, offering a unique chance to taste whisky while its future is still developing. Guests who select the combined tour will experience both sake brewing and whisky distillation in a single visit, comparing two different expressions of Japanese fermentation and distillation culture. By experiencing both processes and tastings, you will gain a deeper appreciation of how tradition and innovation exist side by side in Akashi. This is not simply a tasting, but a chance to witness spirits in the making, from fresh new distillate to matured whisky and refined sake, all shaped by the people, place, and time that define their character.

Location

Activity location

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    • Akashi
    • Akashi, Hyogo, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    • 日本、〒673-0871 兵庫県明石市大蔵八幡町1−6 | Please come directly to the entrance. If you arrive early, feel free to wait outside. Our staff will be inside—just let someone know you're here for Sake Tasting, and we’ll come greet you and confirm your booking.
    • Akashi, Hyogo, Japan
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    • 日本、〒673-0871 兵庫県明石市大蔵八幡町1−6 | Please come directly to the entrance. If you arrive early, feel free to wait outside. Our staff will be inside—just let someone know you're here for Sake Tasting, and we’ll come greet you and confirm your booking.
    • Akashi, Hyogo, Japan
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    • 日本、〒673-0871 兵庫県明石市大蔵八幡町1−6 | Please come directly to the entrance. If you arrive early, feel free to wait outside. Our staff will be inside—just let someone know you're here for Sake Tasting, and we’ll come greet you and confirm your booking.
    • Akashi, Hyogo, Japan