Hokkaido
You must be 20 or over to drink in Japan. If you are driving, you cannot taste.
Furano, Hokkaido
A staff-guided winery tour with a barrel-aged wine and Furano Cheese Workshop cheese tasting. A premium course adds a vineyard visit with a specialist.
Otaru, Hokkaido
A reservation-based tour covering the company history, a virtual vineyard, the oak-barrel cellar and a tasting in the underground Keller3 room.
Ikeda, Hokkaido
A castle-like facility known as the Wine Castle, home of Tokachi Wine. Admission is free, with the underground aging cellar and brandy distillery room open to visit.
Chitose, Hokkaido
The Kirin Ichiban Shibori tour lasts about 90 minutes, including a 65-minute brewery visit and 25 minutes of tasting.
Mashike, Hokkaido
The visitor facilities of Kunimare in Mashike, Hokkaido include a brewery tour, a stone-warehouse archive room and a free herring boat exhibit, plus a tasting corner.
Yoichi, Hokkaido
A distillery in Yoichi, Hokkaido. The free guided tour (with tasting) is by reservation and in Japanese only.
Asahikawa, Hokkaido
A free-admission museum displaying sake-making tools, Otokoyama’s history and ukiyo-e prints. The tasting and shop area has moved to the newly built shop next door.
Sapporo, Hokkaido
A museum on the history of beer-making that began in Sapporo. Choose a self-guided visit or a guided tour with tastings. There is no brewing equipment on site.
Eniwa, Hokkaido
A 60-minute tour in which a brand communicator explains the ingredients, brewing process and history of Sapporo Classic, ending with a tasting.
A guided walk through the 1929 brewery with explanations of its history and sake-making process. In winter (late October to end of March), the morning tour may let you see brewers at work.
Abashiri, Hokkaido
The visitor facility of Abashiri Beer, maker of Ryuhyo Draft and other beers brewed with added ingredients, with a yakiniku restaurant on site.
The direct-run beer bar in Sapporo of North Island Beer, whose brewery is in Ebetsu, pouring its own craft beer.
The direct-run taproom in Sapporo's Odori area of Hop Kotan Brewing (Kamifurano), serving fresh beers from the brewery along with food.
Bifuka, Hokkaido
A craft brewery in a converted brick warehouse in Bifuka, billed as Japan's northernmost. Its restaurant serves the beer with locally produced Genghis Khan lamb.
A log-cabin-style brewery and restaurant in a converted pension, brewing Furano craft beer since 2000.
Hakodate, Hokkaido
A craft beer restaurant with its own brewery in Hakodate's bay area. The ground floor has a shop and restaurant, with brewing tanks visible from the dining area.
Nanae, Hokkaido
A free guided factory tour of about 30 minutes led by Budokan staff. Weekdays only, with booking required by the previous day.
Endeavour, a restaurant with an on-site brewery in Yunokawa, Hakodate, serving beer brewed with local farm produce.
Kamifurano, Hokkaido
A brewery in Kamifurano, the only town in Hokkaido that grows hops commercially. It brews over 70 kinds of beer a year using local and imported hops.
The direct-run pub of Tsuki to Taiyo Brewing in central Sapporo, pouring around 10 beers a day brewed at the company's Shiroishi plant.
Nakafurano, Hokkaido
A craft brewery using Nakafurano-grown hops and groundwater from the Tokachidake range, with a container-house taproom called THE DAY.
A tour of the new brewing building completed in 2023, for groups of 8 to 20 only, one group per day by reservation.
Niseko, Hokkaido
The brewery and craft beer restaurant of Niseko Beer in Niseko town, making a range of beers on small-scale equipment.
Noboribetsu, Hokkaido
A souvenir shop with an on-site brewery run by Wakasaimo Honpo, selling the Noboribetsu-water craft beer Oni Densetsu.
Usually twice a year: spring (mid-April) and autumn (early September)
Hakodate City, Hokkaido
A walk-around bar event in Hakodate's western district: one ticket stub buys a drink and a pintxo at each shop. In 2026 it ran on April 19 and the 40th edition on September 6.
Early to mid July (the 2027 listing says early/mid July; exact dates not set)
A craft beer festival at a Sapporo ski area. In 2026 (July 11-12), 23 breweries took part: 7 from Hokkaido and 16 from elsewhere.
Late April to mid-May (Apr 25-May 11, 2025; Apr 24-May 10, 2026)
An outdoor event in central Sapporo: Act 1 features sake from 50 breweries nationwide and Act 2 features 50 labels from 16 Hokkaido breweries (content of the 10th edition in 2026).
This year's edition has ended
One of the Hokkaido Sake Brewers Association's annual events, a gathering to enjoy Hokkaido sake. The 2026 edition was listed for October 14 at Sapporo Park Hotel.
A roughly 100 m lane with 18 shops, started in 1920 as a central market.
A dining district near Asahikawa Station with about 1,000 shops at night, described as second only to Sapporo.
A ramen alley in Susukino with shops lining a narrow passage; its predecessor opened in 1951.
A yatai village in the Daimon area by Hakodate Station with 26 small eateries.
Kushiro, Hokkaido
A seasonal Kushiro specialty on the riverbank where you grill fresh seafood over charcoal and eat on the spot.
Obihiro, Hokkaido
A yatai street near Obihiro Station with about 20 stalls using Tokachi ingredients.
A yatai village near Otaru Station; the official site lists 12 shops.
A yatai village in the Sun Mall Ichibangai arcade, opened April 2017; the official site lists 7 shops.
Susukino in Sapporo's Chuo Ward is Hokkaido's largest nightlife district, with about 3,500 shops.
