Kagoshima Private Tour with Farm Visit & Distillery Experience
- 9 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Private tour
Highlights
Embark on this experiential tour visiting places related to food, sake, and tableware, and trace the natural and cultural roots that gave birth to Kagoshima's food culture. Begin with a scenic ferry ride to majestic Sakurajima. Visit a local farm for a sustainable agriculture lesson and enjoy a delicious, farm-fresh lunch. Next, immerse yourself in Kagoshima's renowned shochu culture at a distillery, where you'll blend your own unique shochu to take home. Conclude your day exploring exquisite Satsuma ware pottery. This private, guided tour for 2-7 people offers personalized service with an English-speaking guide and private transport. Discover Kagoshima's true essence – a story of nature, taste, and craftsmanship.
Inclusions
What's included
- Lunch
- Transportation costs included in the tour
- English Guide Interpreter fee
- Admission fees and experience fees
What's not
- Fees other than those listed in Includes
Itinerary
Departure for Sakurajima Ferry Terminal
In a field at the foot of an active volcano, listen to stories from local farmers about life and agriculture in Sakurajima. As part of initiatives to coexist with nature, a variety of crops are grown here using a regional circular farming method that utilizes nature, in which seaweed grown in Kinko Bay is used as fertilizer and clean water is returned to the sea. *Cultivation conditions of field crops vary depending on the season.
Enjoy a lunch set menu that makes use of produce harvested from the field visited on the tour and the local area at a dining venue next to Farmland Sakurajima
At the end of this culinary tour of Kagoshima, visit a direct sales shop of a pottery studio where tableware that goes well with food is made. Kagoshima is famous for its Satsuma ware pottery. There are two types: Shiromon (White Satsuma), which is primarily used for ornaments and figurines, and Kuromon (Black Satsuma), which is often used for items such as sake utensils for drinking shochu and other beverages. Ryumonjiyaki is a school of Satsuma ware that continues the tradition of Kuromon. Touring the pottery studio is not included. Only the shop next to the pottery studio will be visited.
Kagoshima is known as the kingdom of shochu, with over 100 breweries and more than 2,000 brands in the prefecture. Shochu, produced in the blessed nature of Kagoshima, is one of Japan's most popular distilled beverages. At Wakashio Distillery, after a tour of the distillery where shochu is actually made, you can enjoy a shochu blending experience where you can mix various shochu according to your own taste to create your own original shochu. Shochu that you blended can be taken home in a bottle.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Meet your guide holding a JTB Sunrise Tours sign at Tourist Information Center near the East Exit rotary outside the station building. This is NOT the Kagoshima-chuo Station Information Center
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc.
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please note that participants may not join partway through the tour
- The order of activities and arrival times may differ on the day depending on reasons such as road conditions and congestion at destinations
- Shochu made by customers during the shochu blending experience may be taken home in a 720 ml bottle per person. Please be aware that restrictions on bringing alcoholic beverages vary by country
- As this tour includes an experience with alcohol included, customers 6-19 years old will be charged at the Child rate
How it compares in Kagoshima
- Its from-price is 30% above the median of the 16 day trips we list in Kagoshima.
- It is longer than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 3 of 16.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Kagoshima
Kagoshima, in southern Kyushu, faces the smoking volcano of Sakurajima across a bay, with a samurai past, hot springs and sweet-potato spirits.
Kagoshima stands on a bay in southern Kyushu, with the active volcano Sakurajima rising from the water just across from the city. A short ferry ride crosses the bay, and a lava flow in the 1914 eruption joined the former island to the mainland. Ash sometimes drifts over the city, which has long been used to it.
Top-ranked sights in Kagoshima: Sengan-en Garden, Shoko Shuseikan Museum.
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