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Tokyo is where most visitors try sake properly for the first time: sommelier-led tastings in Asakusa, Tsukiji and Shinjuku, pairing dinners, and day…

Around Tokyo, sake means sommelier tastings in the city and brewery visits in the hills and coast an hour or two away.
Tokyo skyline at sunset with Mount Fuji. Photo: Fred Cherrygarden, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
We list 24 bookable sake experiences and 2 breweries you can visit across Tokyo and Kanagawa. Each place with three or more listings has its own page with prices as shown on booking pages and brewery visiting details.
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Tokyo is where most visitors try sake properly for the first time: sommelier-led tastings in Asakusa, Tsukiji and Shinjuku, pairing dinners, and day…

Within about an hour of Tokyo, Kanagawa has small breweries in the Shonan beach towns near Enoshima and in the countryside around Atsugi and Ebina…
Inside Tokyo you will find guided tastings in Asakusa, Tsukiji and Shinjuku. For breweries, look west to Ome and Higashimurayama in Tokyo’s Tama area, or south-west to Kanagawa, where private tours visit breweries around Atsugi and in Shonan. A few private tours drive to breweries near Narita in Chiba.
Showing 24 of 24 experiences. Prices are as shown on each booking page on 18 October 2026, in the currency shown; check the final price before you pay.
A two-hour class in Shinjuku with six or more sakes and snacks, comparing serving temperatures and cup shapes.
A visit to the Toshimaya brewery in Higashimurayama, western Tokyo, with 5–7 seasonal sakes.
A sommelier-led session in a small Tsukiji salon with 50–60 sakes to sample, snacks, and a comparison of serving temperatures.
Seven sakes, from sparkling to dessert styles, each matched with a course, led by an accredited sommelier.
A private English-guided visit to Ozawa Shuzo (Sawanoi) in the Okutama valley, with tasting. 1–10 guests.
Senso-ji and a Sumida riverside walk, finishing with a guided tasting at a craft micro-brewery or a sake bar.
A long day trip from Tokyo to Kiyotsu Gorge in Niigata with a sake stop.
A short Kanda walk and a tasting of about six sakes at Toshimaya, a sake shop founded in 1596.
Four private taxi courses from Ebina or Hon-Atsugi stations, about an hour from Shinjuku, each visiting Kanagawa breweries. Tastings are paid separately.
A one-hour tasting of ten small pours of Kubota sake, guided by a digital system.
A private full day with a brewery visit and tastings, a Japanese lunch and a riverside walk.
Self-serve tasting at a sake market bar with 100-plus labels.
A tour of Kumazawa, the only sake brewery in Shonan, including areas not normally open, with sake and craft-beer tasting.
Seven sakes matched with four small courses, poured by certified sommeliers.
A private sake and food tour in Taito City; the listing notes vegan options.
A 90-minute sommelier tasting of six or seven sake styles in Shinjuku.
A private one-day car tour with hotel pickup, a brewery visit and tasting, a meal and a sake shop stop.
A quick tasting at an Asakusa sake bar, with food as an add-on.
Sake tasting in Asakusa with local snacks.
A private day out by car to two breweries near Narita (Terada Honke and Iinuma Honke) with tastings, shrine stops and a photographer.
A second Toshimaya brewery tour listing with a tasting, sold separately.
A walk through Tsukiji Hongwanji and the outer market, then unlimited tastings at a sake salon.
Unlimited sake tasting paired with a sushi omakase.
Seated tasting programmes in Asakusa, from a quick introduction to a longer sommelier-led flight.
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| Brewery | Visit | Admission | Tasting | Closed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ozawa Shuzo (Sawanoi)小澤酒造 澤乃井Tokyo | Reservation | Tour ¥700 per person (about 40 minutes) | Not stated | Not stated |
| Kumazawa Brewing Company熊澤酒造Kanagawa | Reservation | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
From each brewery’s official site or the local tourism office, checked 18 October 2026. Click a brewery for hours and the source link.
Yes. Ozawa Shuzo in Ome, Toshimaya in Higashimurayama and several Kanagawa breweries are reachable in about an hour, by train or on a private tour.