Nara: Choryo Sake Brewery Guided Tour with Tasting

1 hr 30 minEnglish, Spanish, French, Italian +12Nara, Japan

Free cancellation

Your Experience

Explore Choryo Sake Brewery in Nara on a guided tour with a curated sake tasting and sake-making insights.

Getting started

Arrive at Choryo Sake Brewery in Nara and check in with the onsite team for your scheduled visit. Once the group is assembled, your guide introduces the plan for the guided tour of Choryo Sake Brewery. You then follow the set route through the facility, moving from initial production spaces toward areas where the final products are stored and presented.

What to expect

Choryo Sake Brewery

This experience focuses entirely on Choryo Sake Brewery, a working producer in Nara dedicated to the craft of Japanese sake. Across the visit, you move through both traditional and modern spaces that show how time-honored methods and contemporary techniques coexist in the sake-making process.

Features

• During the guided tour of Choryo Sake Brewery, you walk through the brewery's traditional and modern spaces, observing equipment and areas connected to each stage of production. Your guide uses these surroundings to explain how the facility functions today within Nara's long association with Japanese sake.

• The sake tasting session is curated so you can compare a variety of flavors and aromas from Choryo's lineup. As you taste, you get to notice how differences in production choices translate into distinct profiles in the glass.

• Educational insights into sake-making process are woven throughout the visit, with your guide outlining key steps from rice preparation to fermentation and finishing. These explanations help you connect what you see in the brewery to what you experience later in the sake tasting session.

• The experience invites you to immerse yourself in the culture and history of Japanese sake by focusing on how Choryo Sake Brewery operates in Nara today. Through the combination of guided tour, sake tasting session, and sake-making insights, you leave with a clearer understanding of this regional craft.

Go behind the scenes at Nara's Choryo Sake Brewery to trace sake from grain to bottle and see how traditional and modern methods work side by side.
On arrival your tour begins with a walk through Choryo's traditional and modern brewery spaces, setting the scene for what follows.
Walk step by step through the sake-making process, then take part in a tasting as your guide explains how techniques shape flavor in each pour.
As you taste, hear stories of Nara and Japanese sake traditions so each glass links brewing technique with the wider culture and history.

Included

Guided tour of Choryo Sake Brewery
Sake tasting session
Educational insights into sake-making process

Not included

Transportation to and from Choryo Sake Brewery
Meals and additional drinks

Meeting and pickup

Pickup detailsRead more

• Your voucher will be emailed to you shortly.

• Display the voucher on your mobile phone with a valid photo ID at the starting point.

• Please check your final voucher for the starting point details & specific instructions.

Good to know

Inclusions note: Your experience includes a guided brewery tour, a tasting session, and insights into the sake-making process.
Exclusions note: Transportation, meals, and any extra drinks are not included, so you must arrange and pay for these separately.

Free cancellation up to 3 days before start