Interesting and fun! - This was such a fun tour! The knowledgeable and fun guides were waiting at the meeting point and ready to go once everyone was ready. They took us to several sake breweries, starting with a museum in the first one (Hakutsuru) where our guides explained the interesting process of making sake and answered questions. At the end of the museum tour, the tasting begins and continues throughout the rest of the afternoon. Aya was our main guide, and her love of sake and knowledge about it was perfect for this tour. We were given the opportunity to try many kinds of sake and buy some (or not - there was no pressure at all to purchase anything). She even treated the tour group to a bottle to share while we relaxed outside between breweries. There were some fun photo opportunities, too, and the guides were more than happy to take pictures. Honestly, the last parts of the tour are a little blurry, but she and the other guide made sure I was safely on my train and good to get back to my hotel. Highly recommended for anyone interested in how sake is made and trying various samples.

Amazing Sake Tour!! - This was an amazing tour! Our guide Aki was so knowledgeable and well prepared. The pace was excellent and we learned a lot about sake. Aki really went above and beyond with little extra bits to make our experience unforgettable!

Wonderful! - Great tour! Our guide was wonderful!! We couldn’t have had a better time! I highly recommend this tour if you are visiting Kobe or Osaka.

Great sake and wonderful guides - A wonderful guided experience . We (party of two) received excellent instructions for our meetup. We arrived a bit early and so did our guides. So, we left early. Aki and Hiroko were knowledgeable about the history of sake and the Nada district, and also very friendly. In addition to talking about sake and sampling many varieties, we discussed aspects of Japanese culture and life much as good friends would. We were not pressured to buy any of the sake that we sampled. However, as we drank our way through Nada, we came to recognize our own preferences in taste—and we did buy some of our favorites to take home to friends for our very own sake tasting party. Because we were all having a great experience, both we and our guides agreed to extend the time allotted for the tour. Finally, Aki and Hiroko got us to our train station (“designated driver”) and we made our way back to our Osaka hotel where we were staying—an easy 30 minutes away.

Excellent Tour - My wife and I did the Kobe sake tour with Seigo. He is a sake sommelier and an excellent guide. He took us to 5 different breweries and did a great job of teaching us about sake. If you have any interest in sake I would consider this a “must do” activity if you are in Kobe or Osaka.

If you like sake, definitely do this tour - Very knowledgeable and interesting tour, sake was delicious, small group makes it more interesting, an afternoon well spent.

Fun way to learn about sake and taste a lot of different types - Ali was a great guide. She took us to four sake breweries, explained the sake making process and how sake is classified based on the processing. We also stopped for a little fried tofu snack along the way. The afternoon was unhurried and enjoyable.

Wonderful and thorough sake tour! - Wonderful experience with a good mix of small and bigger breweries. Our guide Aki was patient and sincere and speaks good English.she also took good care of my 71 year old father who had to walk more slowly.

Drink, walk and be merry! - Value for money. We had a great time with this tour. Our tour guides (Aki, Aya and Yumi) were very pleasant and knowledgeable of the breweries and its history. We enjoyed the different kinds of sake and appreciated the stories. Great exercise too!

Made the Best of a Cancellation - We were very much looking forward to this tour on our only day in Kobe, so we were quite disappointed when we received a last-minute cancellation email. And by last minute, I mean that our train was arriving at the meeting point about ten minutes before the scheduled start time - had we not had our eSIMs with data, we wouldn't have known that the tour was off. Our guide had a fever and so there wasn't much we could do, but had we received the notice even a half hour prior we wouldn't have left Nankin-machi and essentially derailed our day. To their credit they tried to reschedule us for the next day and were nice enough to provide a list of places we would have visited with a full refund when we explained that this wouldn't work. We decided to visit a couple of those places but it wasn't the same experience.