SETOUCHI TOURS​

Related POI – Takehara

Kōrakuen Garden

Kōrakuen Garden

Kurashiki is best known for the Bikan Historical Quarter, now preserved as a historic district, with many of former storehouses converted into characterful shops, museums, and cafés.

Kurashiki

Kurashiki

Kurashiki is best known for the Bikan Historical Quarter, now preserved as a historic district, with many of former storehouses converted into characterful shops, museums, and cafés.

Miura Senzaburō

Miura Senzaburō

Miura Senzaburō was a Japanese sake brewer whose “Miura method” of brewing sake with soft water, invented in 1887, laid the foundation for the development of the renowned Hiroshima sake. He’s also known as the father of ginjō sake.

Masataka Taketsuru

Masataka Taketsuru

Taketsuru Masataka, known to his friends as Massan, was a brewer and distiller from Takehara. He’s known as the founder of Japan’s whisky industry and Nikka Whisky.

Taketsuru Sake Brewery

Taketsuru Sake Brewery

The museum displays materials related to the local salt and sake industry, and exhibits related to the city’s people, history, and culture.

Nipponia Hotels

Nipponia Hotels

Nipponia Hotels has an innovative and sustainable ‘distributed hotel’ concept that is revitalising rural Japan.

Museum of History and Folklore

Museum of History and Folklore

The museum displays materials related to the local salt and sake industry, and exhibits related to the city’s people, history, and culture.