Other Factory Tour / Demonstration Spots in Hyogo Area

  • Glicopia Kobe
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    Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Nishi-ku Takatsukadai 7-1
    A chocolate factory and museum operated by the famous confectionary company Glico located a one-minute walk from the Takatsukadai 1-Chome bus stop. The entrance is a giant Pocky stick and inside visitors can peer through windows and watch snacks like Pocky and Pretz being made. The facility also offers visitors the chance to make Bisco by hand. The factory shop sells exclusive and new products perfect for souvenirs and gifts. Entry requires a reservation made by phone or over the Internet; reservations are accepted up to four months in advance.

    The general manager had email me to confirm my visit when my visit date was near. My reserved time was 15:00, but I arrived at 16;30. The staff was very kind, she allowed us to enter & give us quick...

  • Asahi Soft Drinks Akashi Factory
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    4.5
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    Hyougo Pref. Akashishi Futamichou Minamifutami 1-33
    A beverage factory located in Minamifutami Futami-cho, Akashi City. There are five production lines on the factory's vast grounds and each year some 50 million cases of products like Mitsuya Cider and Asahi Jurokucha are produced here. The factory offers free tours, and tour goers can see the canned and PET bottle product production process; sample Asahi drinks; and check out the Mitsuya Cider Museum, which also has a gift shop.

    クリスマスの時期に行きました。丁寧なガイドと試飲もあり、楽しめました。試飲は新作ペットボトル4本で飲めない分は持って帰れました。

  • Nadagiku Sake Brewery
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    Hyougo Pref. Himejishi Tegara 1-121
    This sake brewery located in 1 Chome, Tegara, Himeji City was established in 1910. Their fine Nadagiku brew and other products are renowned at home and abroad. They make their sake with carefully selected brewing rice grown in the prefecture, including Hyogo Yumenishiki, a special product of Nishiharima. You can visit their wooden sake storehouse that remains as it was when the brewery was founded, as well as view brewing equipment and panel displays on the modern sake making process. They hold tastings in their shop, and have a restaurant, too.

    Forse dovuto al fatto che era sabato abbiamo potuto visitare ben poco ( un paio di locali con foto e descrizioni varie del processo di lavorazione) se non il negozio dove vi fanno assaggiare il loro...

  • Houmei Sake Brewery Horoyoi Jokagura
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    Hyogo Sasayama-shi Gofukumachi 46
    This facility, located on Aoyama-dori Street in the Gofuku-machi area of Tanba-Sasayama City, shows the process of sake production and is run by the sake company Houmei Sake Brewery, which was established in 1797. The learning course, with displays the tools used to make sake and panels about the sake production process, can be enjoyed free of charge and without reservations (reservations are required for groups). There is also a shop selling all products by the brewery and specialty products from Sasayama. Buildings such as the main building and brewery are registered as national Tangible Cultural Properties.

    篠山の城下町にある酒蔵です。ここで秋限定酒を試飲。純米吟醸の鳳鳴冷おろしは甘味、辛味、酸味のバランスが取れている。アル度も高めなのに飲みやすく円やかで美味しかった。リキュールは黒豆と栗があり、これも試飲させてもらった。黒豆は酸味が強く少し飲みにくいかなと感じた。栗は少し甘さがありシロップのようでしたね。純米吟醸の鳳鳴冷おろし720㎖を家用に買い、栗のリキュールは、アイスにかけたり、炭酸や氷で割って...

  • Suntory Takasago Factory
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    Hyogo Takasago-shi Araicho Shinhama 2-2-1
    This factory in Takasago is operated by Suntory, a company which makes and sells alcoholic beverages and soft drinks. Designed around the concepts of high quality, environmental friendliness, and environmental harmony, the factory engages in a variety of environmentally-conscious activities such as waste reduction and recycling initiatives. Camphor trees, the official tree of Hyogo Prefecture, have been planted at the factory site, and visitors may also freely stroll on the green grounds. With an advance reservation, you can go on a factory tour and see the production floor and sample Suntory beverages.

    写真撮影OK!専属のスタッフが30分程かけて、行程を説明してくれる。 お茶のペットボトルの製造工程も見学でき、面白かった。

  • Morinaga Milk Kobe Plant (factory tour)
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    Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Nada-ku Mayafutou 3
    Located a three-minute drive from the Maya ramp exit on the Harbor Highway or an eight-minute walk from the Mayafuto bus stop. This factory, located on the east side of Mayafuto, is owned and operated by the longstanding dairy company Morinaga Milk. The factory offers scheduled tours on weekdays for groups of 15 to 100 people. Reservations can be made from the 1st of the month to the 14th of the month two months in advance; participants must be of elementary school age or older. After listening to an explanation provided by a staff member and watching a video, tour goers enter the actual factory and watch from a passage as various products are made. The factory also offers optional activities like cheese making.
  • Hamafukutsuru Ginjo Brewery
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    Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Uozakiminamimachi 4-4-6
    You can learn about traditional Japanese sake brewing culture at this hall about a seven-minute walk from the JR Rokko Liner's Minami-Uozaki Station. Watching the brewing process in action from their viewing area, you can hear the sound of the sake fermenting away and experience the moromi fermenting mash mixing process through its sweet scent surrounding you. The tours are available year-round. They also have a tasting area where you can try limited edition raw sake as well as one serving more affordable brews. Another area offers the highest grade of sake measured out the old-fashioned way. This variety was closely guarded and formerly only available to the brewers themselves.
  • Fukimodoshi no Sato
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    Hyougo Pref. Awajishi Kouchi 333-1
    This studio and workshop facility is about an eight-minute drive from Kobe-Awaji-Naruto Expressway's Higashiura Interchange. It is the only place in Japan where you can try making paper fukimodoshi party blowbacks, a traditional toy. They're known by other names in Japan too and have attracted attention in recent years for medical, therapeutic, and beautification purposes. It's a fun workshop for parents and kids alike. The shop sells about 50 varieties of party blow backs.

    入場料は800円に値上がりしていました。 説明を聞いて、吹き戻しを6つ作ります。 色々な組み合わせを考えて、ペンもあるのでイラストも入れ、子どもは楽しそうに作っていました。紙を丸くするのは、少し大人の手が必要でした。

  • Yamasa Kamaboko Yumesaki Plant
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    Hyougo Pref. Himejishi Yumesakichouokimoto 327-16
    This kamaboko fish cake factory is in Okimoto, Yumesaki-cho, Himeji City. They hold free regularly scheduled factory tours twice a day on weekdays and six times a day on Sundays and holidays. Tours give visitors the chance to watch the production process of their imitation crab meat production line and their chikuwa tube kamaboko line. They also have a program where you can try making chikuwa and kamaboko yourself with fresh fish paste (reservations required).
  • Kirin Beer Kobe Factory
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    Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Kita-ku Akamatsudai 2-1-1
    A beer factory operated by long standing beverage company Kirin located a four-minute drive from the Kobe-Sanda interchange. A free shuttle bus also travels between the factory and Sanda Station as well as Flower Town Station. During the factory tour, participants can taste and compare first and second pressing beer wort as well as malt. The tour also includes draft beer and soft drink samples. Special, limited time tours are held on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. The adjoining restaurant serves beer fresh from the factory and lunch dishes made with local ingredients.
  • Shirayuki Brewery Village Choujugura
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    Hyougo Pref. Itamishi Chuou 3-4-15
    A sake brewery over 460 years old located a five-minute walk from Itami Station. The facility also imports beer from Belgium and makes and sells Shirayuki, Japan's oldest seishu refined sake brand still in production. The first floor of the facility serves as a museum containing some 200 tools spanning 130 varieties actually used since ancient times to make sake. There's a diorama which recreates what an Edo period (1603-1868) sake brewery looked like and there are also photo spots where visitors can take 3D art photos of rice wine vats and straw-wrapped casks. In the second-floor restaurant, visitors can enjoy fresh-brewed sake, beer, and original dishes.
  • Yakult Honsha Hyogo Miki Plant
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    Hyougo Pref. Mikishi Shijimichou Toda Nakao 1838-266
    A factory located a 10-minute drive from the Miki-higashi Interchange on the Sanyo Expressway. Visitors can tour the factory and see the Yakult's latest production lines producing products like the lactic acid beverage Yakult 400LT, inspection equipment, and quality control system. The factory offers tours even for individual visitors as well as groups (advance reservation required). Tours consist of an overview of the company; information of Yakult products; a tasting session which includes Yakult 400LT and other products made at the factory; a video; and, lastly, a tour of the factory itself.
  • Kyoshin Milk Kiyotani Factory
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    Hyougo Pref. Onoshi Kiyotanichou 1544
    15 minutes from the Takino Yashiro Interchange on the Chugoku Expressway or the Miki-Ono Interchange on the Sanyo Expressway. This vast, 20 hectare farm is located in a hilly area in the center of the Banshu Plain. The farm keeps more than 100 head of Jersey cattle, and visitors can come any time and watch their free range grazing. In the farm's restaurant, Milkers, customers can enjoy an exquisite pudding made with fresh, Jersey cow milk; and vaunted pizzas with crispy crusts. The farm's first rate, fresh Jersey milk soft serve ice cream is so popular, lines of people waiting to get some form on weekends.
  • Mochimugi no Yakata
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    Hyougo Pref. Kanzakigunfukusakichou Nishitahara 1022-4
    This exhibition facility on a side road off of Route 312 in Fukusaki Town, Kanzaki County, Hyogo Prefecture deals with mochimugi barley. It's a chewier variety than ordinary barley and is grown in Fukusaki as a specialty product. They make their own noodles with flour stone ground the old-fashioned way at their on-site facility. You can watch the unique process from a viewing area, as well as video showcasing mochimugi at the exhibition corner. Their restaurant and shop have a variety of mochimugi dishes for you to try.
  • Rokkosan QBB Cheese
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    Hyogo Kobe-shi Nada-ku Rokkosancho Naka Ichiriyama 1-1 Kobe Municipal Rokkosan Bokujo
  • Rokko Miso Factory
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    Hyogo Ashiya-shi Kusunokicho 11-16
    This miso factory is situated on National Route 2. Belonging to a company established in the Taisho period, the factory makes misos such as Tezukuri no Aji, a longtime best-selling miso made the old-fashioned way by hand. There's also a company-direct miso shop, plus reservation-required factory tours are held from May to the end of September.
  • Kewpie Itami Plant
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    10 Reviews
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    Hyogo Itami-shi Minamicho 4-7-1

    伊丹工場の主体が、新しく出来る神戸工場に移管されるとのことで最後の工場見学にお邪魔した。縮小はされるが、伊丹工場は残る。神戸の新工場は、稼働後しばらくいしてから、見学を受け付ける模様。見学後に、マヨネーズにお土産を頂く。

  • Kirin Beer Kobe Plant
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    Hyogo Kobe-shi Kita-ku Akamatsudai 2-chome 1-1
  • gikenseisakusho Kansai Kojo
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    Hyougo Pref. Tambashi Ichijimachouyashiro 401
  • Kewpie Kobe Plant Open Kitchen
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    Hyogo Kobe-shi Higashinada-ku Fukaehamamachi 27-1

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Hyogo prefecture stretches from the north coast to the south coast on the western end of the popular Kansai region, encompassing verdant mountains, urban beaches, and fantastic historical sights. The prefecture’s main attractions lie along the south coast at Kobe, the prefectural capital, a pretty harbor city best known for its production of the renowned Kobe beef, and Himeji, the home of Himeji Castle, one of the country’s most beautifully preserved feudal castles, perched magically atop a hill.

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