Eigashima Akashi White Oak Distillery — Restaurant in Akashi

It’s not the most convenient place to get to. English tour is available through email reservation. Eigashima is a relatively small distillery for whisky. Unlike the big ones like yamazaki and yoichi, Urabe San offers a very flexible and personalized tour. You get full personal attention and authentic answers from someone working at the company for his whole life(again, unlike the big ones, sometimes their staffs don’t really know things around). Very knowledgeable. I definitely asked a lot of stupid questions and learned a lot about whisky & sake.

I came here for a whisky distillery tour but turns out I like their sake a lot.

If you like beach and swimming, please bring your swimsuit! They have a nice beach without many people/tourist around. I’m sure you...

Received a wonderful tour from Mr. Yuki himself. Lots of history in this place, and he graciously shared it with us. He speaks English very well. They have a wide assortment of whiskey, sake, and plum wines for tasting and purchase. If you have an interest in distilleries or find yourself out here with time to...

Don’t come here if you have not booked a tour. There is no visitor center and you cannot enter the premises. Tours are ONLY with preregistration! For such a big distillery it’s quite disappointing to have no shop. There is a tiny corner where they sell a few bottles with the charm of a municipal community center...