
About the brewery
Mitobe Sake Brewery was founded in 1898 and is now run by the fifth generation. The sake he brews is very fruity, the quality of which expanded the prestige of his sake from Yamagata to Tokyo a while ago. The master brewer is the one to guide you through. With his fluent English, you will forget that you are in a sake brewery in the most rural area of Japan.
Mitobe Shuzo is unique in that it has its own rice fields. They grow rice, from which they brew sake. If you visit there in fall, you may witness golden rice field.
Hope you enjoy visiting Mitobe Sake Brewery which is usually strictly closed to public.
Special Features
Beautiful fermentation room - expensive local trees are luxuriously used
Old-style sake pressing machine
Price
JPY 12,000 per person (plus tax)
Useful information
Language: English / Japanese
Kids: Allowed
Itinerary
Brewery’s story telling
Walking tour in the brewery
Tasting
Brewery’s sake
Yamagata Masamune - flagship of Mitobe Sake Brewery. Traditional yet fruity sake
Inazo - one of the most prominent sake brewers expressed this sake as “the most muscat-like sake in the world”. Brewed only from the rice harvested in its own rice field
Location
Otsu-7 Haramachi, Tendo, Yamagata
Spots around
Yamadera (https://yamagatakanko.com/en/attractions/detail_2352.html)
Koshikake-an (bracken-starch dumplings, https://livejapan.com/en/in-tohoku/in-pref-yamagata/in-yamagata-suburbs/spot-lj0011616/)
Testimony