Visiting Seiryu Shuzo

What you can do

Booking

Reservation required (the start of reservations is announced under "News" (お知らせ) on the official website or on the "Seiryu Channel" (清龍チャンネル) on YouTube)

Hours

Saturdays from 12:30 (currently held once a month)

Price

¥5,000 (tax included)

Duration

Approx. 3 hours 30 minutes (brewery tour approx. 40 minutes)

What to expect

The brewery has continued sake brewing for generations in Hasuda City, where traces of the Musashino landscape can still be seen in many places. Valuing direct feedback from customers, it handles everything from sake production to direct sales at the brewery and the operation of its own izakaya. The tour traces the history of sake brewing and offers a chance to taste a wide variety of sake together with rare delicacies (chinmi) personally selected by the company president. Brewery tour, exhibits on the history of sake brewing, sake tasting with snacks, and more.

Notes

Capacity: 100 people (maximum 4 per group) Sake tasting: Daiginjo, Honjozo, Junmai, Jishinsaku (自信作), Kinjirushi (金印), rice Shochu, seasonal sake, and several others Snacks: seasonal delicacies selected by the company president, etc. Directions from the West Exit of Hasuda Station: - Asahi Bus: about 5 minutes from the West Exit bus stop; get off at Shimo-Uruido (下閏戸) bus stop - Taxi: about 5 minutes from Hasuda Station

Getting there

Address

〒349-0133 埼玉県蓮田市閏戸659-3

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About the brewery

Seiryu Shuzo, located in Hasuda, Saitama Prefecture, is a sake brewery that, according to its official website, was founded in 1858 (Ansei 5). Since the Edo period, the brewery has stood along the Nikko Onari Kaido (now National Route 122), and a hitching post for horses from that time still remains. Its sake brewing follows the methods of the Nanbu toji (master brewers of the Nanbu school), and the brewery has aimed to make "good sake at an affordable price." Its flagship brand is Seiryu. The brewery continues a direct-sales model, delivering its sake straight to customers without going through wholesalers or liquor retailers, and it also operates brewery-run izakaya (pubs) in Tokyo. It has also been announced that the brewery's direct-sales shop would close in February 2025, and that online sales and brewery tours would be suspended.

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