Tour #2
Home of
Japanese beer,
Tono beer tourism
- Iwate
- Beer
Enjoy your best pints at the "Beer and appetizer pairing" and the "Hops to beer"experiences at the home of "Japanese beer Tono, leaders of hops production."
Visit the hop farm and the brewery; enjoy the "Hops to beer" tour by a specialist beer tour guide available at "Tono, home of Japanese beer" the leading hops producer!
Private tour with small taxi (3 passengers) incl. guide.
Hilights
- "Cheers" to one of your best pints ever while surrounded by a 5m tall green curtain of hops.
- Experience the beer culture of Tono. Iwate Prefecture boasts the number 1 hops production in Japan.
- Enjoy things at your own pace as the guide and the taxi are all yours
- Have a drink of Tono beer, using Tono hops
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Hop farm
The vines of hops can reach a height of 5m at the peak! -
Beer tourism guide
Our specialist beer guide will pick you up. Let's go! -
Kamihei-shuzo
Tour the beer brewery which uses Tono hops. Sample a glass or two and buy souvenirs for those who couldn’t make it -
Tono brewery
Beer brewery visit (with beer tasting) -
Tono Denshoen
Engawa Beer: Drink beer on the Engawa (porch) of a Nambu Magariya (traditional Japanese bent house). You can take the beer home instead of drinking it there if you want. -
Beer in the middle of a hop farm. It doesn’t get better than this
"Cheers" in the middle of a hop farm! Selfie time and pictures to remember the "green curtain" garden.
※ Picture for illustration purposes. There are changes in scenery and details dependent on seasons.
※ All images are for illustration purposes.
※ Menu shown as an example and will vary on seasonal availabilities.
Tour details
【Itinerary 】
JR Tono Station → Tono brewery → Tono Denshoen → Hop farm → Kamihei-shuzo (Zumona beer) → Michi-no-Eki Tono Kaze no Oka → Tabi no Kura (JR Tono Station)
※ Schedule dependent on participants, season and weather
【Meeting place】 JR Tono Station
【Participants】 Small taxi (Maximum 3 person), Jumbo taxi (4-8 person) (Minimum 2 person)
【Season】 July - September (2019) ※ This program has ended
【Time】 Approx. 4.5hours (13:10 - 17:30)
【Price】 From ¥20,000 (incl. tax)/ per adult (if 3 participants)
【Included in price】
●Tono private taxi ● Beer sampling ● Souvenir ● Guide
【Not included in price】
●Additional beer, etc.