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Try Traditional Weaving and Enjoy an Awamori Tasting at a Long-Established Brewery, Yaesen Shuzo! Travel in Comfort With This Chartered Taxi Plan
- A confirmation email for your reservation will be sent to you within 48 hours.
- Required Time:
- 240minutes
*4 hours
- Time:
- 13:20
- Supported Languages:
- Japanese / English
- Participants(Min.):
- 1 Group
- Participants(Max.):
- 1 Group
- Min. Participants Required For Activity:
- 1 Group
- Payment Method:
- Credit Card (VISA/MASTER/AMERICAN EXPRESS/JCB)
- Fee:
- 1 Adult(Aged 20 years and above) USD 216.56
- 2 Adults(Aged 20 years and above) USD 286.60
- 3 Adults(Aged 20 years and above) USD 356.64
- 4 Adults(Aged 20 years and above) USD 426.69
- Age (Min.):
- 20 years old
- Cancellation:
- Yes
- Booking deadline:
- 7 days prior by 17:00
Activity
Enjoy this special tour to enjoy awamori at Yaesen, a long-established awamori brewery (Including a 4-hour chartered taxi departing from and arriving at the city center)
Participants can drink freely and travel in comfort travelling by chartered taxi.
Participants can try their hand at Minsah weaving, a traditional handcrafted textile from the Yaeyama Islands.
Get a certificate of completion after creating your own awamori coaster!
Includes a souvenir pottery piece designed to enhance the taste of awamori!
Yaesen Shuzo has selected beautiful pottery unique to Ishigaki!
Behind-the-scenes tour of the factory
Learn the process of making awamori from rice.
At the bar, enjoy making your own original awamori blend and awamori cocktail!
Enjoy two unique experiences!
1. Create and bottle your own original awamori blend
2. Make an awamori cocktail that you can recreate at home
Schedule
Meeting/Reception/Transport: Hirata Kanko Reception Counter
Please present the My Page reservation screen at reception. After completing check-in, you will board the taxi and depart.
Weaving experience: Minsah Kougeikan
There is also a guided tour of the museum.
Factory Tour and Awamori Experience: Yaesen Shuzo
After the factory tour, enjoy bottling your own blend of awamori and making cocktails at the bar counter.
Transportation: Return to the Remote Island Terminal by taxi.
If you are staying in Ishigaki City, you can get a ride direct to your hotel or other preferred destination.
End of Experience
Included in the Fee
Meeting Place
HIRATA TOURISM, Inc.
1 Misakicho, Ishigaki-shi, Okinawa 907-0012 (Inside Ishigaki Port Remote Island Terminal)Directions
Nearest Station:Ishigaki Port Remote Island Terminal Bus Station
Destination by Taxi:Ishigaki Port Remote Island Terminal
Things guests need to prepare on the day of the activity (clothes, belongings, etc.)
Comfortable shoes (Please refrain from wearing heeled shoes as the factory is narrow in some areas and there are steep stairs.)
Cancellation Policy
The cancel fee is based on the timing of the cancellation. Please check the cancellation policy below.
- After 1 days before date of use
- 40%
- The day of use
- 50%
Notes
•According to Japanese law, minors (persons under 20 years old) and drivers are not allowed to taste or drink alcoholic beverages.
•People 19 years of age or younger and pregnant women are not allowed to join the tour. (*You cannot bring small children or babies with you)
•Please refrain from wearing heeled shoes as some areas in the factory are narrow and there are steep stairs.
•After making coasters, the finishing touches will be added by the instructor, and the finished product will be handed over at the brewery.
•After your tour of the brewery ends, a taxi will take you to your desired location within the city. Please enter your desired destination on the final page of the reservation process.
•The following two courses are available at the bar
(1) Create your own original awamori blend
- Create and bottle 300ml of your favorite awamori while tasting some awamori and trying snacks.
- Create an original Yaesen label with the date and message of your choice
- Now you have your one and only original bottle of Awamori!
(2) Awamori cocktail experience
- Make and drink three kinds of awamori cocktails while enjoying local specialty snacks.
- Cocktails (menu may change depending on the season)
Butterfly Pea Cocktail / Coffee-Awamori Cocktail / Sanpin Tea-Awamori Cocktail
[Cancellation Policy]
1. Cancellation on the day before the start date of the activity: 40% of the fee charged
2. Cancellation on the starting day of the activity (except in the case of #3): 50% of the fee charged
3. Cancellation after the activity starts or no-show without notice: 100% of the fee charged
[Fees]
Per person (for persons over 20 years of age)
16,600 - 33,700 yen
The tour fee per person varies depending on the number of participants.
1 person (20 years of age and above) ・・・・33,700 yen (per person)
2 persons (20 years of age and above) ・・・・22,300 yen (per person)
3 persons (20 years of age and above)・・・・18,500 yen (per person)
4 persons (20 years of age and above) ・・・・16,600 yen (per person)
[Cancellation]
The tour may be cancelled after the reservation is made due to inclement weather. In such case, WAmazing Play Customer Support will contact you by email after 3:00PM on the day before the event.
[Language Support]
We are accustomed to providing service for foreign visitors, although we only communicate through body language and Japanese.
Organizer
HIRATA TOURISM, Inc.
1 Misakicho, Ishigaki-shi, Okinawa 907-0012 (Inside Ishigaki Port Remote Island Terminal)