3-Hour Sake Tasting + Insider Sake Brewery Tour in Kyoto

  An Excellent Sake Tasting Experience - I highly recommend this tour to anyone interested in learning more about sake. Momo and Mai were fantastic guides - knowledgeable, engaging, and fun throughout the experience. I came away... read more with a much better understanding of the history of the Gekkeikan Distillery, the sake (nihonshu) brewing process, and how different styles are classified and labeled.

The tasting was excellent, with 10 different sakes sampled before and after thoughtfully paired foods, making it easy to appreciate how food changes the flavor profile of each sake. By the end of the tour, I felt much more confident choosing and ordering sake to complement a meal. This was one of the highlights of my time in Kyoto.

  Great experience! Highly recommend!  - Awesome experience— learned quite a bit and had the ability to ask questions. English guide was amazing, highly recommend!

  Great Experience with our expert tour guide - Great experience, highly recommended. We had a great time and learn a lot from this tour. Before, we came for the Insider Sake experience tour at Gekkeikan Sake Brewery and... read more some Japanese Sake testing with Mr. Shogo, and it was amazing. So this time we came back again for an Advance Sake Testing course with Mrs. Kiyomi, and we were so amazed to find out how much more can the Sake making process affect the test and aroma of the Sake. Our guide today, Mrs. Kiyomi is also very lovely and really easy going. We really enjoyed our Sake testing tour today.

  WHAT AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE  - Great experience! I was clueless about sale but learning about the history of it and the breweries was amazing. Also, learning how to read the labels on the bottle was... read more very helpful as well. I now know to order sake by saying “Nihonshu” instead of just “sake” which means alcohol. We learned by saying this, it can confuse the servers.

  Japanese Sake tour in Kyoto - don’t miss  - Kiyomi and Nanase introduced us to Japanese sake, in an informative and personalized way, so cool! From learning how sake is made, purified to bottling always adding the local history.... read more Ok and the tastings were so fun! Diaginjo please, no wait, make mine Junmai Ginjo! Thanks to our amazing guides!

  Amazing sake class/light food pairing  - This was an amazing class! I wish I had signed up for the 3-hour version. I now know far more about sake (or nihonshu) than I did before, and I’m... read more really excited to put my new knowledge to the test over the next couple of weeks while I’m in Japan! Definitely recommend this if you like sake!

  Delicious Tastings and Expert Guidance - This was one of the best experiences we had in Kyoto! The tour included so many sake tastings, giving us the opportunity to sample a wide variety of styles while... read more learning about the brewing process and the different categories of sake.
What I enjoyed most was how educational the tour was. I learned how to recognize the differences between sake styles, what makes each category unique, and, most importantly, discovered what I personally like and why. The explanations made tasting the sake much more meaningful and helped me appreciate the craftsmanship behind each one.
The food pairings complemented the sake beautifully, and the guide was knowledgeable, engaging, and made the experience enjoyable from start to finish.
A thoughtful touch at the end of the tour was receiving a set of sake cheat cards that summarize the different categories and tasting notes. They are a fantastic reference and will make it much easier to choose sake with confidence in the future.

  Sake! - Mayo was fantastic! So much information and a great sense of humor- absolutely loved this experience! I learned so much

  A day with Sake & Mayo  - Mayo was awesome, her knowledge and charm filled the room.

Rick