Fun and Educational – Most Popular Sake Tasting Tour in Kyoto!
Fun and Educational – Most Popular Sake Tasting Tour in Kyoto!
We Are the Only Sake Tour Company Based in Kyoto’s Fushimi Sake District
We have been sharing our passion for sake since 2018. Our strong relationship with local breweries and insiders allows us to provide you with a deeper sake experience. Meet our local sake experts on the tour – we invite you to dive deep into the world of sake!
Through our expert-led tasting session you’ll get the chance to learn the unique characteristics of different varieties of sake and what food to pair it with. After joining Kyoto Insider Sake Experience, you will discover which type you most prefer and how to identify your favourites on menus and bottle labels. Joining our sake tour is surely a great introduction to your sake experience.
What Makes Our Sake Tour Unique
Private Sake Tasting Rooms
We have two sake tasting rooms dedicated to sake. Our tasting rooms are exclusive and inaccessible to the general public, allowing for tastings that focus on the subtle aromas and flavours of sake.
Certified Sake Experts
Because our tours are led exclusively by certified sake experts, we are able to answer your questions, find your sake preferences, and guide you deeper into the world of sake.
Fun and Educational
The entire tour is designed to be both entertaining and educational, with visual information and actual sake-related materials used throughout the tour. After the experience, guests can purchase their favourite bottles on the spot.
Take a tour with us and you will: -Discover the history of sake and the Fushimi Sake District of Kyoto whilst touring a traditional brewery/museum
-Come to understand the differences in flavour and smell and how these are produced. You’ll focus on the secret methods of sake brewing which have been passed down for generations
-Get the chance to compare the differences between Western wine and beer production and sake brewing, to understand what makes the sake brewing process so unique
Sake Tasting with an Expert
Through our expert-led tasting session you’ll get the chance to learn the unique characteristics of different varieties of sake. You will also discover which type you most prefer and how to identify your favourites on menus and bottle labels
Our expert will help you notice the difference in taste between ‘junmai’ sake (which has no added alcohol or sugar) and alcohol-added sake. We’ll also explain the effects of rice-polishing on the aroma and flavour
Pure rice sake, refined sake, cloudy sake, aged sake – we’ll help you discover the distinguishing characteristics of each type.
Food Pairing
Discover the way the taste of sake can completely change when paired with different dishes. We hope that the food pairing section of our tour will also allow you to find out a little about Japan’s food culture, as well as sake.
Reviews by Our Guests
A Fun and Informative Sake Experience - This was one of the highlights of our time in Kyoto! Miyuki was a very informative and highly entertaining host as she explained the making of sake and guiding the... read more group through our sake tastings. My wife and I are much more knowledge about the type of sake we prefer and look forward to enjoying this unique drink even more in the years to come.
Bill S 2024-11-14
Great sake experience and education - Kiyomi was our guide and she was great. She spoke English faster than we do, she had tremendous energy and her knowledge of sake was superb. We found... read more her both entertaining and informative. We not only tasted several wonderful sakes, we learned a lot about how to read the labels (even the kanji!) and choose a sake right for us. I’m looking forward to uso g new food pairing skills! We’ll be back for the Advanced class!
Myra L 2024-11-13
A Great Experience - Our guide Momoko-san gave us a very educational and pedagogical explanation of the sake brewing process. As well as a fulfilling sake testing session.
I now understand what kind... read more of sake to order when at restaurants.
Well worth the money!
Escape50136051659 2024-11-12
Excellent tour giving great sake insights - It was a really great tor, providing a lot of history and insights to sake. Together with the tasting of sake, both bare and paired with food, it gave me... read more a very good foundation to build upon and to better understand what sake to order and drink. Highly recommended.
umglurf 2024-11-11
An Excellent Sake Tour Experience!!! - Kiyomi was an absolute joy! The experience was incredibly informative and, as a sake enjoyer, I feel like I learned so much more about what kind of sake that I... read more enjoy and how best to pair it with food. A truly wonderful experience and I cannot recommend it enough for anyone passing through Kyoto!
Alex A 2024-11-08
Highly recommend - Fantastic look into Japanese Saka from the history to now
Our guide Greg meet us at the location to start our tour was very knowledgeable as he lead us... read more through the museum and explained the saka we got to taste at the museum
We then walked to the saka tasting rooms just around the corner you then get to try so many different saka with and without food again Greg’s knowledge and great personality was fabulous highly recommended
scottandevelyni 2024-11-06
Well worth it - Great theory explanations and very worthwhile experience.
Sake tasting done on standalone basis and with food pairings.
Thank you Greg we had a blast
matt w 2024-11-06
Fantastic Sake Brewery Tour and Tasting - This was one of our favorite experiences during our 2-week stay across Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo. Kiyomi was an absolutely awesome tour guide and did a fantastic job teaching... read more us the ins and outs of Sake brewing, as well as making our Sake tasting experience afterward extremely memorable.
Tyler B 2024-11-04
Great Introduction to Sake - This was a great crash course into the world of Nihonshu (Sake). It was super helpful for enjoying Sake for the rest of the trip. Also helpful for when we... read more are trying to find bottles to enjoy when we reached back home. Many thanks to Greg for being a great host!
Online Sake Classes are designed to meet the interests of all sake lovers, whether you are a sake beginner, a sake enthusiast or a wine, beer or whisky lover. We invite you to explore the deep world of sake through our online sake classes. We hope that sake fans all over the world will discover the way to enjoy great sake!
A Fun and Informative Sake Experience - This was one of the highlights of our time in Kyoto! Miyuki was a very informative and highly entertaining host as she explained the making of sake and guiding the... read more 
