Visiting Chiyonohikari Shuzo

What you can do

Booking

By phone or email

Duration

Brewery tour: 60 minutes; Assemblage: 60 minutes

What to expect

The year-round brewery tour lets visitors see the kettle room (kamaba), the brewing room, the storage room, the bottling area and more. An assemblage experience (blending sake) is available on request. The "Mysterious Brewery Tour" (Shinpi no Kura Kengaku) lets you hear the sound of the moromi (fermentation mash) fermenting, which can only be heard in complete silence once the machines are switched off at night. It is a mysterious experience that lets you feel that sake is a living thing.

Notes

Two tours are offered: the year-round brewery tour and the limited-period Mysterious Brewery Tour (November to March, limited hours). Groups of 2 to 5 people.

Getting there

Address

〒944-0061 新潟県妙高市窪松原656

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About the brewery

Chiyo no Hikari Shuzo is a sake brewery in Myoko, Niigata Prefecture, that has been brewing since 1860 (the first year of the Man'en era). It brews with soft subterranean water nurtured by snowmelt from Mount Hiuchi, and makes all of its products with the fine, careful approach of ginjo-style brewing. The rice is steamed in a koshiki (traditional steamer) using the "nukegake method," and the genshu (undiluted sake) is stored in bottles at 0°C. Its flagship brand is Chiyo no Hikari, and the brewery also offers an assemblage experience, in which several genshu are combined to create a sake to one's own taste.

Brewery profile, brands and bottles (5 brands, 14 bottles)