Visiting Tentaka Shuzo

What you can do

Booking

By toll-free phone or email

Hours

11:00-15:00 (October-April); 9:00-15:00 (May-September)

Price

[Standard Course] ¥550 (tax included; includes a ¥500 shopping voucher) [Special Course] ¥1,100 (tax included; includes a ¥500 shopping voucher)

Duration

30 to 60 minutes

What to expect

[Standard Course] Duration: approx. 30 minutes (rice polishing house, steaming area (kamaba), tasting) Start times: 11:00-15:30 (October-April); 9:00-15:30 (May-September) Price: ¥550 (tax included; includes a ¥500 shopping voucher) * For safety reasons, participants must be junior high school age or older. [Special Course] Duration: approx. 60 minutes (brewing areas including the rice polishing house, steaming area (kamaba), yeast starter room (moto-ba), brewing room, pressing room, and filtration room; tasting) Start times: 11:00-15:00 (October-April); 9:00-15:00 (May-September) Capacity: approx. 10 people (please inquire) Price (includes white coat fee): ¥1,100 (tax included; includes a ¥500 shopping voucher) * For safety reasons, participants must be junior high school age or older.

Notes

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, for the time being the brewery tour is limited to a maximum of 10 people, and no more than 5 people may enter the direct sales shop at one time. Visitors are asked to wear a mask and to disinfect their hands with alcohol at the shop entrance.

Getting there

Address

〒324-0411 栃木県大田原市蛭畑2166

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About the brewery

Tentaka Shuzo is a sake brewery in Otawara, Tochigi Prefecture, founded in 1914 (Taisho 3). It is a small brewery surrounded by rice fields, and has continued to brew dry sake since its founding. In 2005 it became a certified organic business operator and began making organic sake. In 2017 it became the first organic sake in Japan to win a Gold Award at the Annual Japan Sake Awards (Zenkoku Shinshu Kanpyokai). In 2018 it established a subsidiary, Tentaka Organic Farm, which grows organic rice, and it also launched the Kyubi series. In recent years, most of the rice it uses has been grown in Tochigi Prefecture. Its flagship brand is Tentaka. The brewery also makes a honey wine (mead), released in 2015.

Brewery profile, brands and bottles (3 brands, 11 bottles)