「Naruto Sake Story」Brewing Culture Experience Half Day Plan
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Narutotai (Honke Matsuura Shuzo) is a brewery located in a countryside valley of Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku Island. Dating back over two centuries, this brewery was an important location along the Muya Kaido highway since the Edo period. Still active as a brewery today, Narutotai works diligently on traditional sake-making that draws on local nature. Held in collaboration with the Fukuju Shoyu soy sauce brewery located directly across from it, this is a special opportunity in which the respective brewers serve as your guides onto the brewery floor, normally off-limits to ordinary people. The brewers explain the various types of sake and soy sauces while you enjoy a relaxed tasting together with local foods. Step inside the deep world of brewing culture.
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At a Japanese brewery with over 200 years of history, the brewers themselves will welcome you in.
The brewery building itself is a precious antique built with unique traditional Japanese techniques.
Take this special opportunity to enter a Japanese sake brewery and learn about their production techniques and equipment in depth.
As the brewers explain the products, enjoy a relaxed tasting of multiple types of Japanese sake with snacks made from local ingredients.
Also visit the soy sauce brewery located directly across from the sake brewery to explore the deep world of Japanese brewing techniques.
At the soy sauce brewery, you will have a special opportunity to experience the traditional production process just as it was in the past.
In your tasting, see if you can tell the differences in soy sauce flavors resulting from different production techniques or ingredients.
If you like any of the sake or soy sauces, you may of course purchase them to take home. There are also exclusive products only available from the brewers as direct producers.
Also recommended is the historical trail along the old highway that will make you feel as though you time traveled back to old Japan.
Infomation
- Minimum Number of Passengers
- 4 people *Parties of 3 or less may be possible with extra fees applied
- Maximum Capacity
- 8 people *Parties of 9 or more may be possible with adapted content and fees
- Participation Restrictions
- 20 years or older
- Meeting and Exchange Areas
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Honke Matsuura Shuzo
19 Iketani-Yanaginomoto, Ooasa-cho, Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture 779-0303 - Open Period
- Year-round
- Tour Schedule
- ◎ Naruto Sake Story Project overview, history of the Honke Mastuura Shuzo brewery ◎ Special tour of the interior of soy sauce brewery Fukuju Shoyu, which has over 190 years of history, plus soy sauce tasting ◎ Special tour of the interior of Japanese sake brewery Honke Matsuura Shuzo, including the brewing process up to final sake production ◎ "Osake no Terakoya" (Instructor-led Japanese sake tasting + "Naruto snack box" filled with local Naruto ingredients)
- Required Time
- 4 hours
- Provision of Meals
- Meals are provided
- Open to meal requests
- Not available
- Universal accessibility
- Not available
- Parking
- Free parking available *Program includes drinking alcohol. Drivers will not be provided alcohol.
- Notes
- Options range from a simplified two-hour plan with just sake tasting to a customized 1-night, 2-day or longer plan that can include other local traditional cultural activities or farming activities, etc. (includes organized transportation and accommodation).
- Related websites
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https://www.narutosakestory.com/
https://www.narutosakestory.com/
This basic information is current at the time of publication and is subject to change.
Please check the official website for the latest information.
