Akita
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Yuzawa, Akita
A Yuzawa brewery offering reservation-only tours of about 40 minutes. Tours stop during the brewing season.
Daisen, Akita
A brewery three minutes on foot from Jingūji Station. The production floor isn't shown, but you can tour the buildings, taste sake and visit the gallery and shop.
A reservation-based tour down through the five-story brewery, with a museum visit and tasting.
Akita, Akita
A roughly 45-minute visit combining a process video, a guided walk and tasting/shopping. The head brewery includes Senshu-gura and Sennin-gura, where traditional hands-on sake brewing is practiced.
Yurihonjo, Akita
A one-hour tour of the brewing hall and bottling plant followed by tasting in the shop. Visitors receive a commemorative sake cup and a bottle of brewing water.
A brewery in central Akita City with the beer bar Akura on the second floor and a brewery shop in the same building. Brewery tours can be booked through Asoview.
Semboku, Akita
Beer brewed at Akita Art Village (Warabiza), billed as Akita's first local craft beer. It has a bottle shop, and factory tours require a reservation.
Roughly February to April (the 47th round ran at individual breweries from Feb 7 to Apr 18, 2026)
Across Akita (Yuzawa, Daisen and others), Akita
A campaign announced by the Akita Sake Brewers Cooperative in which breweries across the prefecture open their sites. Dates and content such as tours and limited-edition sake tastings vary by brewery.
This year's edition has ended
A tasting event organized by the Akita Sake Brewers Cooperative where 27 breweries each offer up to three sakes. The 2026 edition was held on Saturday, September 26 in front of Akita Station.
An event with 15 breweries from Tohoku and Hokkaido serving over 50 craft beers. Held June 12-14, 2026.
Akita's largest drinking district along the Asahi River in Omachi, developed after a great fire in 1886 moved geisha houses and restaurants here.
