TOUR DATES: November 30-December 6, 2025

GROUP SIZE: Minimum 8/Maximum 12

TOUR COST: $3,900 USD

TOUR INCLUDES:

• Tour will start in Kanazawa and end in Toyama. Chartered van, train, bus and taxi during the tour will be included (transportation to Kanazawa and after Toyama are not covered).
• 6 nights hotel, ryokan
• Meals included: 5 Dinners, 4 Lunches, 6 Breakfasts and sake!
• Fees for all scheduled sightseeing and cultural activities (optional excursions excluded).
• 5 Sake Brewery visits

Participants must be at least 21 years of age at commencement of tour. Send us an email in the Contact Section to be the first to get complete details about this tour.

Itinerary subject to change based on availability.

Kanazawa

The tour starts from the city of Kanazawa. Check in to the Mitsui Garden Hotel in Kanazawa after 3:00pm.

• We will meet in the lobby for a quick Meet & Greet and Q&A. Afterward, we proceed to our first dinner, a cultural experience - a private dining experience with Geiko performers.

• On Day 2, we'll board a private van to our first sake brewery visit at Noguchi Naohiko Sake Institute. A remarkable visit to the brewery founded by a legend in the sake industry, known as the "God of Sake."
• After a kamameishi lunch (a traditional Japanese kettle rice dish cooked in a pot), we will visit the Kaga Traditional Crafts Village Yunokunino Mori where you will have a chance to see various Kaga crafts and participate in two workshops.
• Dinner will be at Hatchoya Ekinokura, a popular izakaya in Kanazawa with a good selection of local sake.

• Day 3 is a casual day where we visit Higashi Chaya and join a gold leaf workshop at Gold Leaf Sakuda.
• Then on to Omicho Market where you can browse on your own and enjoy a delicious seafood lunch if you choose (lunch on your own).
• In the afternoon, we visit Yachiya Shuzo, a brewery with a 480 year history and still making sake in small handmade batches.
• The evening is free for you to explore Kanazawa, or you can join an optional izakaya tour with the tour leaders. We plan to visit two sake bars/izakayas that are very popular in Kanazawa (pay on your own).

• Day 4 - Board our charter microbus for Gokayama, a UNESCO World Heritage Site to visit the Gassho-zukuri houses.
• We'll enjoy a washi paper making workshop and enjoy Gokayama's famous local tofu at Sakade.
• After lunch we visit Sanshoraku Shuzo nestled in the heart of the mountains where they brew some special sake with traditional techniques.
• Dinner will be a group dinner at the ryokan. The ryokan has very nice onsens for you to relax for the evening.

• Day 5 - Our charter bus will take us to Fumigiku Shuzo, makers of the Haneya brand.
• Lunch at Kusa no Ie before we visit the Nousaku Factory, makers of fine tin, brass and copperware known around the world. You will have a chance to cast your own tin piece at their workshop.
• For a change of pace for dinner, we will indulge in Italian cuisine at Montagna.

• Day 6 takes us to Shiraiwa Shuzo, makers of IWA5, an exquisite experience of sake blending, or assemblage.
• Lunch of grilled river trout at Ayu no Sato before we visit the Inami Zuisenji Temple, known for its intricate wood carvings. Join a wood carving workshop to create your own masterpiece.
• Our final dinner will be at Joya Izakaya with a nomihodai option where you can indulge in a variety of Toyama & Ishikawa sake.