A major attraction! Enjoy delicacies and more on a tour of Tohoku!
Tohoku is home to a wide variety of food source due to its rich nature and varied climate. There are tours where you can see, touch, eat, and enjoy the bounty of the area♪
"Yamamo Brewery", which exports miso and soy sauce to overseas markets, offers a tour limited to one group per day, which includes a factory tour and dinner!
Hachinohe City in Aomori Prefecture is a thriving fishing town and offers an overnight tour where you can enjoy fresh seafood while getting a glimpse of the lives of fishermen♪
Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture is famous for its oyster farming. Visitors can take a tour of the farm and taste freshly harvested oysters!
By taking a tour that focuses on food and allows you to enjoy learning about the climate, culture, and lifestyle of the region, you are sure to have a memorable trip♪
A pairing of tradition and innovation! Brewery dinner tour
The Yamamo Dinner Tour is limited to one group per day. It is offered by the Yamamo Brewery, a long-established brewery in Yuzawa City, Akita Prefecture, which has been in existence for over 150 years since the end of the Edo period.
The grounds of the brewery include a miso and soy sauce brewing plant, a yeast laboratory, a Japanese garden, a cafe, a store, and a gallery, creating an exciting mix of Japanese and Western, art and science!
During the dinner tour, you will be served food and drinks fermented with the brewery's proprietary Viamver® yeast as you travel from place to place. You can experience local gastronomy using not only miso and soy sauce but also local ingredients.
An overnight tour to fully experience the life and delicious food of Hachinohe, a fishing town
Enjoy an overnight tour to experience the charms of Hachinohe City in Aomori Prefecture, which has a thriving fishing industry.
On the first day, gather in the evening and go to the hidden bar district "Same Ginza Street". After a night of drinking at a fisherman's hideout, stay at a guest house for the night♪
The next morning, head to Tanesashi Fishing Port to greet fishermen returning from fishing. You can have a share of the freshly landed fish sent home via home delivery service. You can also enjoy shopping for souvenirs at the Tatehana Wharf Morning Market said to be one of the largest in Japan, and take a leisurely stroll along the coastline♪ At lunchtime, you will be treated to a lunch full of freshly caught seafood, making this a very satisfying tour!
A chartered boat experience tour where you can taste freshly caught oysters in a famous oyster production area!
Kesennuma City in Miyagi Prefecture, famous for its oyster farming, offers oyster-filled charter boat tours during the landing season from October to May.
During the tour, you will board a fisherman's boat and travel close to the oyster farming rafts! You will learn from the fishermen why Kesennuma's oysters are so delicious, and observe oyster farming in action, which is not usually seen♪
After getting off the boat, in the guardhouse you will be served freshly-picked oysters and scallops! Oysters and scallops in season, steamed in their shells, have a plump texture and rich umami flavor! It tastes even better after seeing the aquaculture♪
