1.5-Hour Kyoto Insider Sake Experience with 7 Tastings & Pairings

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Kyoto Insider Sake Experience
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Join an expert-guided sake tasting in Kyoto and spend 90 focused minutes discovering distinct styles. Your Japan trip gets better once you truly enjoy sake.

  • Learn how to choose sake with confidence, even if you’re completely new to sake
  • Enjoy a guided sake tasting with a local sake expert in Kyoto
  • Taste a variety of sake styles, from dry to sweet and fruity, in a relaxed setting
  • Learn the basics of sake and simple tips to recognize key differences in flavor
  • Enjoy sake paired with Japanese otsumami and see how food affects taste
  • Get easy, practical tips for choosing sake in Japan, including hot or cold options
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Join a 90-minute guided sake tasting in Kyoto and discover how to truly enjoy sake.

You’ll taste a selection of sake paired with Japanese otsumami while learning the basics of sake, including key differences in flavor and style. This experience is for beginners and those who enjoy sake but feel unsure about what to choose.

By the end, you’ll have a clearer understanding of different sake categories and gain practical tips to help you choose sake with confidence and enjoy it with Japanese food during your trip.

1.5-Hour Sake Tasting + Food Pairing Experience
1.5-Hour Sake Tasting + Food Pairing Experience
1.5-Hour Sake Tasting + Food Pairing Experience
1.5-Hour Sake Tasting + Food Pairing Experience
1.5-Hour Sake Tasting + Food Pairing Experience
1.5-Hour Sake Tasting + Food Pairing Experience

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

Our guide was super knowledgeable and answered all our questions. You get to try a wide variety of sakes and then get to pair them with food. NOTE - unlike other booking with Klook you will not receive a voucher.

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

Amazing experience! Our guide Mayo was extremely knowledgeable and brought the information about Sake alive to us! It was a very educational experience but at the same time enjoyable and we were able to try some great Sakes and understand our taste preferences. This has been the highlight of our holiday so far, thank you

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

we had a wonderful time in this class. It was very informative about how sake is made, and all the different variations of sake. The tasting and food pairing was amazing, the staff was also very kind and welcoming. we had a very memorable experience here, I would definitely recommend.

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

The Kyoto Sake Tasting and Food pairing was one of the highlights of our trip! We learned so much about all of the different types of sake and the tasting helped us find out what kind we like. Plus, we have knowledge about how to identify what is being served when we order! The instructor, Mayo, was the best! She was patient and very knowledgeable about sake. She very clearly explained the lesson and built on each thing we learned which helped the info to stick! She even provided us with the pdf of the presentation we went through in the tasting. We just got back to the U.S. and are planning to recreate the event for our friends! Hopefully we can explain to our friends as well as Mayo did for us. This was a great way to learn about sake and about the production of it in Kyoto. This event is definitely a must to learn more about Japanese culture and have a great time! Thanks, Mayo!

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

100% recommended!! we tried 7 (+2) different sakes and small bites for food pairing. our guide Yui is very knowledgeable and helpful. now we know what sake we like and we are more confident in choosing and ordering sake :) highly recommended

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

Mayo is very knowledgeable and cheerful , I am very impressed with the endless amount of sake facts she knows , well done Mayo ! I even bought sake from them after being “ educated “ thank you , enjoyed it very much !

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

Naoko was a great guide! She started our tour with a bit of history on the walk to the first Izakaya. We shared a great meal with unique dishes and then tried a sale bar and a whiskey bar. Thanks, Naoko!

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

Mayo was an excellent host. She was passionate about teaching her knowledge of Sake to us and the process of how it is made. Many good tips for choosing type you like and how to find this on bottles. Food pairing was good to show contrasting flavours when drunk with food.

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

Amazing tasting, Host very knowledgeable. First half is about sake, how to understand the labels and what to expect based on it. Second half is tasting 7 different examples so you can decide what you like. Highly recommended

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Review for: 1.5-Hour Sake Tasting Experience

Crash course to become a Sake expert (-ish) especially when walking into a store or an ezakaya after the course! found my favorite sale style and happy to say I know how to read sake labels now. Patrick was great and informative also kept the session lively.

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