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Short answer: Yes! We’ve done a couple of „10 Tastings“ food tours in Japan and this is definitely different and special. Of course the tour is expensive but then so is high quality Kobe Beef. It’s not something you can do cheaply or if you do find a place selling inexpensive “Kobe beef” you’re probably being ripped off. We had a great afternoon with Peri who gave us great insights into the world of Sake and how it’s made, the background of what makes Kobe beef special and showed us around some fun parts of Kobe. Obviously the highlights were tasting the Sake and Kobe beef. It was also interesting getting to know a perspective on the expat experience from someone who’s moved to Japan and been here a couple of years. Would highly recommend the tour if you want to get to know real Kobe beef!
We booked the sake tour with guide Mako and we had a very great time. We learned a lot about sake and we tried several different flavours. Mako was a very nice guide and when you are in Kyoto you defenitly should book this tour with her
I'd give Ollie 5/5 stars. He was a super friendly and knowledgeable tour guide. He adapted the walking tour to our interests - bringing us to a bamboo garden in a beautiful fall forest when we told him we like nature and also to a building with walls covered in murals when I told him I'm a painter. The "Tom Cruise" steps aka the steps Tom Cruise walked up in the last Samurai was a cool spot to see too. I am also thankful to Ollie for knowing of a delicious vegan noodle restaurant and ending the walking tour at that location so we could grab lunch. It was one of our favorite meals that we had in Japan.
Our family did a Sake Tasting with Yoshie. What a great person!! She was so knowledge on the subject. We visited the sake brewery, Gekkeikan where we earned about the process of making Sake. There we also tasted 3 different varieties they make. Then afterwards, she took us to a place where we were actually able to taste a large variety of sakes. We did 5 flights of sake that each had 3 different sakes. It made it much easier to understand the different varieties. Yoshie is a wonderful person - so much fun! Can't say enough nice things about her. She was able to give us ideas of where to eat lunch beforehand in that area and made sure that we were on the right train back into Kyoto. You won't be disappointed.