Hyogo: Akashi Shurui Sake Brewery and Whisky Distillery Guided Tours with Tastings

Your Experience

Visit Akashi Shurui Jozo for a guided sake brewery and whisky distillery experience with tastings and new spirit nosing.

Getting started

Arrive at Akashi Shurui Jozo and check in for your guided tour according to the option you have selected. After a brief introduction to the site and safety guidelines, you join your guide and move into the first production area. Your route then follows the chosen path through the sake brewery, the whisky distillery, or both in sequence.

What to expect

Akashi Shurui Jozo sake brewery

This option focuses on the working sake brewery at Akashi Shurui Jozo, where traditional production is carried out. You follow a set route through active zones, observing how rice-based brewing progresses from raw ingredients to finished sake.

Features

• Guided tour access to the sake brewery lets you enter active production areas with expert guidance, so you can see equipment and processes in use rather than static displays.
• A dedicated sake tasting, included with this sake brewery access, gives you the chance to taste sake in the same location where it is produced.
• Your guided tour helps you understand how sake fits into the wider range of spirits made on site, setting up clear contrasts if you also visit the distillery.

Akashi Shurui Jozo whisky distillery

Selecting the distillery-focused option takes you into the whisky production side of Akashi Shurui Jozo. Here you walk through working spaces that show you how grain spirit is created, matured, and prepared for bottling.

Features

• Whisky distillery access on your guided tour brings you into active production areas, where you observe stages of whisky making that are usually off-limits to general visitors.
• A rare opportunity for new spirit nosing lets you smell freshly distilled whisky spirit before it goes into casks, so you experience the spirit at an early stage of creation.
• Your visit concludes here with a whisky tasting, included with distillery access, where you sample aging whisky and connect what you taste to the production steps you have just seen.

Akashi Shurui Jozo combined brewery and distillery experience

The full experience option combines both the sake brewery and whisky distillery at Akashi Shurui Jozo in a single continuous guided tour. This route highlights how different production methods on one site create distinct styles of drink.

Features

• Sake brewery and whisky distillery access on one guided tour lets you move from sake tanks to whisky equipment with the same expert, making it easier to compare techniques.
• A sequence of sake tasting and whisky tasting is included, so you can taste sake and aging whisky in one location and notice contrasts in flavor, texture, and finish.
• New spirit nosing is integrated into the combined route, so you experience spirits at different stages of creation, from freshly distilled whisky spirit to more mature pours in the tasting room.

Highlights

• Go behind the scenes at Akashi Shurui Jozo, stepping into active brewing and distilling spaces with a guide inside the working heart of the facility.
• Meet your guide at Akashi Shurui Jozo and follow them into the brewery or distillery, starting your walkthrough of production areas.
• Move through the production spaces as your guide explains the process at Akashi Shurui, linking each area to a stage of brewing or distilling.
• Finish with a tasting session, sampling on-site spirits at stages of creation so you can match production steps to aromas and flavor.
• Choose from a sake brewery tour with tasting, a whisky distillery visit with new spirit nosing and tasting, or an option that includes both venues.