Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum — Attraction in Kobe

🎼🎹 SONG OF THE SWEETNESS OF RICE AND SMOOTH FLAVOR 🥂Located on a street in Kobe, a region famous for its expensive Kobe beef, the Hakutsuru Sake Museum is known for its cultural value as well as the origin of this unique museum.

🥂Originally, Hakutsuru was the leading Sake production brand in Nada (Kobe) founded in the 18th century. With nearly 300 years of creating and distributing Sake products throughout Japan, Hakutsuru wants to make a difference, leaving its mark in the traditional Sake production industry.

🍹And they decided to establish a separate museum that only exhibits Japanese sake right on the factory that used to operate. So when you visit the Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum, you will see it located next to a brewery of the same name that is still operating day and night without stopping. This does not bother any visitors, but also brings a nostalgic feeling as well as the most authentic feeling of a museum introducing the "national wine" of Japan.

🎧Entering the museum, you will hear traditional "folk" songs of the Sake brewers from ancient times playing in the exhibition room. Brewers often sing these songs to encourage their spirit while working.

🎸Not only that, all the traditional Japanese wine production processes will appear right before your eyes. No different from a real wine factory of the 18th-19th century. The mannequins are arranged no different from real workers. From clothes, shoes to typical wine making movements, all are simulated extremely delicately.

🎬To create a wine with a smooth flavor, full of the sweetness of rice, but hidden deep inside is the characteristic strength of the Japanese people, the craftsmen spent countless hours at...

The museum was amazing. It gave great details and had interesting displays about the sake making process. They also had displays at each major stop that showed videos of the process, in English and Japanese, which was wonderful. That being said, we felt like we weren't really welcomed nor wanted there by the staff in the sample room and the souvenir shop. The museum was great but after that not so much. The lady in the sample room did not even acknowledge us when we stepped in. She quickly filled a few bottles and left. The lady we asked about the tokens seemed put out to get the for us to try the premium options. The final lady who waited on us at the checkout line was honestly pretty rude and definitely had no desire to be assisting us. It was honestly our first experience between both of our 2 week trips to Japan that we encountered this kind of treatment. I would only recommend the museum portion if the sake making process interests you but would skip the souvenir shop and sample room. There are several other sake distilleries in the area to try out, so if the place seems unwelcoming, just leave and walk to...

Hakutsuru Sake Brewery. Sake and Kobe? Or Kobe and sake? Either way, Sake in Kobe is famous due to its geographical location. Close to the production area of high quality “Yamada Nishiki” brewery rice and subsoil “Miyamizu” water from Rokki Mountain, and cold winter wind from “Rokko Mountain”, for your information, does also enhance the flavour of Sake. So, tell me then. How can this every now and then alcoholic resist tasting some sake at the end of this knowledge thirsting visit?

Initally, to tell you the truth, I hesitated. You know me and alcohol? Enough is not enough once I start. In the end, I gave in to my alcoholism lust. Sparingly. Just a few gulps and amongst those tiny portions in tiny plastic cups, I loved the tadbit of sweet fruity sake. No, I didn't get tipsy, I did on the other hand or both my hands get happy. Thank god I didn't get tipsy. Otherwise, I may have freaked out the Japanese, or either they would have loved me, thereafter I would have had a ball of a time in joining the men in...