3h 30m
2 languages
Private tour
Mobile ticket

Highlights

The tour takes you to local Kyoto stores, some with more than 100 years of history creating and refining their own unique products. The tour begins with a miso and soy sauce tasting at their local breweries. The soy sauce brewery is famous for its moromi soy sauce, and the miso shop has supplied miso to the Imperial Palace, making it one of Japan’s top quality miso breweries. Visit a vinegar shop where you can learn about and create your own ponzu and have it bottled to take home as a souvenir. Throughout the tour, your guide will explain the traditions behind these ingredients and their role as the base flavors of Japanese cuisine, helping you understand the flavors you taste. After tasting all 3 base ingredients of Japanese cuisine, visit a bar where the bartender will create 3 cocktails exclusive to this tour. Enjoy three signature cocktails featuring soy sauce, miso and ponzu, an unexpected and creative way to experience these traditional Japanese flavors!

Inclusions

What's included

Taxi ride during the Tour
3 Signature Cocktails
Ponzu Making
Guide Fee

What's not

Transportation Fees not included in tour

Itinerary

Start your tour with a tasting of local soy sauce products at a Soy Sauce Brewery. Taste a variety of soy sauces, while learning how to use and pair them.
45 min
Make your next stop at a Miso Shop, founded 190 years ago, specializing in miso products. Taste a variety of miso pastes made from carefully chosen ingredients of the highest quality.
45 min
Visit a vinegar shop with 180 years of history. All their vinegar is handmade. Here you can taste and create your own ponzu vinegar mix. You can take your vinegar mix back home as it will be sealed and labeled.
1 h
Finish your tour with three exclusive signature cocktails, each inspired by one of the flavors you discovered throughout the tour: soy sauce, miso and ponzu.
1 h

Cancellation

All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.

Know before you go

Meeting point: Your tour will start at Karasuma-Imadegawa where you will meet your guide. You will meet your guide in front of the FamilyMark convenience store at the south-west corner of Karasuma-Imadegawa.
Pickup: Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
Ticket type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Operated by: Honey J Tours

Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Please note that Japan's legal drinking age is 20. We will only serve alcoholic beverages to those who are of legal drinking age.
We can not accommodate guests under the age of 20 for this tour.
Please note that this tour requires a minimum of 2 participants.

How it compares in Kyoto

Its from-price is 144% above the median of the 1713 experiences we list in Kyoto.
Its length is typical for the group.

About Kyoto

Kyoto, Japan's imperial capital for over a thousand years, is a city of temples, gardens, wooden townhouses and refined traditions.

The city holds many of Japan's most treasured sites. Fushimi Inari Taisha's thousands of vermilion torii gates climb a wooded mountain, Kinkaku-ji's Golden Pavilion shimmers over its pond, and Kiyomizu-dera's wooden stage juts from the hillside above the city. The rock garden of Ryoan-ji and the mossy grounds of Ginkaku-ji invite quiet contemplation.

Top-ranked sights in Kyoto: Fushimi Inari Shrine (Fushimi Inari Taisha), Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion), Kiyomizu-dera Temple.

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