Sake brewery tour will renew and start as NONBEI festival in 2020.
If you buy a sake book for JPY3,000, you can taste sake, join lottery after collecting stamps and get a souvenir. You can enjoy this event either in one day or a few days.
Event Period: Jan 26, 2020 to Feb 29, 2020
Event Time: depending on each sake brewery
Hirase Sake Brewery
Kawashiri Sake Brewery
Niki Sake Brewery
Hirata Sake Brewery
Funasaka Sake Brewery
Harada Sake Brewery
Oita Sake Brewery
This is the oldest sake brewery in Takayama founded in 1623. The representative sake “Kusudama” is popular in Hida area.
Brand: Kusudama Jummai-namagenshu (undiluted, unpasteurized, pure-rice) Shiboritate 720 ml
Jummai-Namagenshu (undiluted, unpasteurized, pure-rice) Soshun-no-arabashiri 500ml
| Address | 82 Kamiichinomachi, Takayama-city |
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| Open | 8:15am to 5:00pm |
| Holiday | Dec 31 to Jan 3 |
This cafe provides easy-to-digest meals such as homemade lunch and sweets with local pesticide-free foodstuff.
This brewery uses the special rice “Hidahomare” bred for sake and is a specialty shop of long aged sake.
Brand: Genshu (undiluted) Hidamasamune 720ml
Masamunekun-no-zeppin Umeshu (plum liqueur) 720ml
| Address | 68 Kamininomachi, Takayama-city |
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| Open | 8:00am to 5:00pm |
| Holiday | Jan 1 (some event holidays) |
This brewery was founded in 1965 and their specialty is ginjo (with highly polished rice) sake.
The most popular one is daiginjo namazake (unpasteurized sake) “Himuro”.
Brand: Daiginjo Shurei-no-hono 720ml
Jummai Daiginjo Himuro 720ml
| Address | 40 Kamininomachi, Takayama city |
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| Open | 8:00am to 5:00pm |
| Holiday | irregular holidays |
This brewery produces sake with local rice “hidahomare” and well water under their concept “sake is grown, not brewed”
Brand: Suiou 720ml
Hida-no-hana Jummai Daiginjo 720ml
| Address | 43 Kamininomachi, Takayama city |
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| Open | 8:00am to 5:00pm |
| Holiday | irregular holidays |
This shop is popular with the seasonal soba (buckwheat noodles) with local ingredients. Soba with duck meat in winter has a lot of repeat customers.
This brewery has a long history and is located in the old street. They produce and sell sake, liqueur, thick sweet sake and drink.
Brand: Daiginjo Yotsuboshi 720ml
Daiginjo Miyamagiku 720ml
| Address | 105 Kamisannomachi, Takayama city |
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| Open | 8:30am to 8:00pm |
| Holiday | none (maintenance holiday) |
This shop sells over 150 incense. You can get some Japanese souvenir there.
The representative sake “Sansya (山車)” is named after Dasi (山車/festival float). They produce seasonal sake with flower yeast and dry sake made in winter.
Brand: Kinjirushi-josen (gold award) dry 720ml
Daiginjo Aberia 720ml
| Address | 10 Kamisannomachi, Takayama city |
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| Open | 8:00am to 6:00pm (Apr to Oct) 8:30am to 5:00pm (Nov to Mar) |
| Holiday | irregular holidays |
This is a specialty shop for Warabimochi (bracken-starch dumpling). Warabimochi is kept at a normal temperature and eaten with black syrup.
This brewery has sold cups of sake to enjoy casually for 300 years.
Brand: Onikoroshi Daiginjo 1 cup JPY500
Nigorizake (cloudy sake) Soda 1 cup JPY400
| Address | 67 Kamisannomachi, Takayama city |
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| Open | 9:00am to 5:00pm |
| Holiday | irregular holidays |
