Events

A Party to Enjoy Sake and Talks with Rui Yoshida 2026 The Kure Hankyu Hotel in Hiroshima will host a talk show event, "A Party to Enjoy Sake and Talks with Rui Yoshida 2026," featuring bar poet Rui Yoshida, who is well-known for his BS-TBS show "Rui Yoshida's Bar Wanderings," on Saturday, March 28, 2026.

This weekend, Matsui Sake Brewery Partnership (Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture) will host a free tasting and tour event for local residents at its newly completed beer factory in Kedakacho, Tottori City. The event will be held over two days, December 20th (Sat) and 21st (Sun), 2025, with five sessions each day (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM, approximately 10:00 PM each).

The Niigata Prefecture Sake Brewers Association has announced that the sake event "Niigata Sake no Jin 2026" will be held at the Toki Messe Exhibition Hall (Wave Market) on Saturday, March 7th and Sunday, March 8th, 2026. Both days will have two sessions, morning and afternoon, with a rotating schedule (each lasting three hours), including tasting time.

Kikusui Sake Brewery in Niigata, known for its "Kikusui Funaguchi" and "Kikusui Shiboritate" sakes, will be holding an event called "Gorogoro, Gorohachi - Kotatsu Sakaba" at Shibuya Modi from December 12th to 14th, 2025, to promote the new appeal of its rich, cloudy sake "Gorohachi," available only in the fall and winter.

Nikaido Sake Brewery will be holding a special event, "Nikaso's Big Year-End Party," from Monday, December 1st to Sunday, December 28th, 2025, at the Shinsaibashi Neon Food Street on the second basement floor of Parco Shinsaibashi in Osaka. This will be the first time the event is held in Osaka, and it is expected to be a very popular event.

The Koriyama Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Koriyama Sake & Fermentation Festival Executive Committee will hold the "Sake Festival" from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at the Hanakatsumi Yamazakura area on the fourth floor of the Koriyama View Hotel Annex in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture. Six local businesses in Koriyama City will participate in the festival...

Seibu Chichibu Ekimae Onsen Matsuri no Yu in Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture, will host the Chichibu Sake Brewery Festival on Sunday, November 2, 2025, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM, bringing together eight sake breweries and liquor stores from the Chichibu region, a region renowned for its sake. From breweries with over 270 years of history to craft breweries...

The Nishikoyama Festival, hosted by Shinagawa Ward, will be held tomorrow in front of Nishikoyama Station. Local brand Hakusui-sha will be selling High Sour. Enjoy High Sour Lemon and Sunchi, and original merchandise will also be available! Nishikoyama Festival 2025: Dates and Times...

In the center of Kofu City, Yamanashi Prefecture, there are many alleyways that remain from the time of the last Tokyo Olympics (1964). The charm of these alleyways is the concentration of delicious food, from oden, yakitori, hotpot, ramen, and curry. We'll be looking at some of the best places to eat in these alleyways while bar-hopping...

Today, Friday, October 17th, Hoppy Beverage will be exhibiting at the 14th Sawayaka Shinkin Bank Product Exhibition, held at the Ota Ward General Gymnasium. This popular event brings together famous products from Tokyo and around the country, and is attended by a total of eight clients of Sawayaka Shinkin Bank and local credit unions.

A special event combining sake and camping, "Tipsy Hot Sake Night," will be held at Nagata Sanso Campground in Gotemba City, Shizuoka Prefecture, from Saturday, November 29th to Sunday, November 30th, 2025. The event is sponsored by Sawanotsuru, a sake brewery in Nada, Kobe, and the outdoor media "hinat..."

The "Autumn Sake Festival Gifu - Get Drunk on Gifu's Local Sake 2025" will be held at Kin Park in Gifu City on Saturday, October 25th and Sunday, October 26th. Conveniently located about 30 minutes from Nagoya Station, the festival will feature booths from 28 breweries and a lineup of 83 local sakes. Aged "Hiyaoro" sake...