Fermented foods like soy sauce, Miso, Sake, and vinegar are essential ingredients in Japanese cuisine. Handa city is an integral part of the fermented food industry in Japan and a fascinating place to visit for any foodie.
During this tour, you can learn about the impact of fermented foods on Handa and the rest of Japan.
5000 yen/person
Private Experience
You can choose the meeting location:
Option 1: Meitetsu line Chitahanda station (Google Maps)
Option 2: JR Handa station (Google Maps)
You can choose the end location:
Option 1: Meitetsu line Chitahanda station (Google Maps)
Option 2: JR Handa station (Google Maps)
09:30 (3 hours)
English, Chinese, Japanese
English: Business ★★★☆☆
Chinese: Conversational ★★☆☆☆
Japanese: Native ★★★★★
Learn about the history of Handa City, the producing area of fermented foods.
Start your tour at Handa station, one of the oldest stations in Aichi. From here visit the Handa Canal next to the Headquarters of Mizkan vinegar company where you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the huge canal and black-walled warehouses.
Other sights during the tour include Hanroku garden and the Oguri family house as well as the Kunizakari Sake Museum.
At the Handa red brick building, you get to sample one of Japan’s popular pre-war beer brands, Kabuto beer.
On the way back to the station, you will walk along the scenic Konya street lined with dye houses going back almost 200 years as well as the gorgeous house of the Nakano family one of the most influential families in the area.
Meet your guide at the Meitetsu Chita Handa station or JR Handa station. At the Handa station, your guide will give you a brief introduction to Handa’s history and explain about the historic station.
Your guide will explain the importance of the canal for local commerce. With its black-walled warehouses, it is also a beautiful location to take pictures.
Both of them are historical spots related to the founder of Handa’s traditional industries.
This museum is attached to Nakano Sake Brewery. Here you can learn the traditional Sake brewing method.
You can taste the revived Kabuto beer, a popular pre-War drink.
This traditional street takes you back 200 years into the past, lined with traditional wooden houses.
An old western-style house owned by one of the most influential families in Handa. The guide will explain how the Nakano family contributed to Handa’s industry.
Your tour ends at either Meitetsu Chita Handa station or JR Handa station.
I’m Tatsuya Ito, a National licensed guide-interpreter. I have been guiding at Nagoya castle since 2017 and hope to show many people the charms of Aichi Prefecture. Aichi is the industrial center of Japan with the Toyota motors company, many factories, and company headquarters. And Nagoya has an original cuisine based on Aichi’s fermented foods.
