Rich blessings from the four seasons of mountains and fields
Sake brewing that spins tradition and opens the future
Warm relationship between people
A journey that enriches your body and soul,
which can only be done in the Saku area
Rich blessings from
the four seasons of mountains and fields
Sake brewing that spins tradition
and opens the future
Warm relationship between people
A journey that
enriches your body and soul,
which can only be done
in the Saku area
Saku Brewery Agritourism
Promotion Council
An organization devoted to spreading information on the Saku region’s sake, food culture, and the daily lives of the people of Saku who live nearby and have supported its 13 breweries, with a particular focus on traditional industries such as sake brewing and farming that have arisen from and make use of the region’s abundant water sources and rich natural environment.
EXPERIENCE
Experiencing Saku
Experience some distinctive local activities — such as making genuine Sake, soba noodles, and sushi — together with the people of Saku.
SAKE
13 different breweries,
each with its own identity
With 13 Sake breweries in a single area, Saku is one of the leading Sake-brewing centers in Japan. The people here have been brewing fine Sake for a long time, doing so with a respect for nature and using advanced brewing technology. The personalities of the people brewing the Sake go into the Sake that they make, so you will enjoy tasting and comparing the Sakes from each of these breweries.
CUISINE
Eating in Saku
Restaurants where you can enjoy foods unique to Saku — mushiri, Saku carp, and Shinshu salmon — along with local Sakes
STAY
Staying in Saku
A hotel built on the ground an active sake brewery that opened last year, a historic hotel founded in 1428. It's a great place to have a really special time.
NATURE
Blessings from nature and people's lives
Introducing the relationship between traditional industries such as sake brewing, agriculture, and fishing, and the abundant water resources of the Saku area and the natural environment.
TEMPLES & SHRINES
The shrines and temples of Saku
Introducing shrines and temples where you can experience Japan and local culture.
EXPRERIENCE NOTE
It is their first visit to Saku.
Kou & Shou (Bloggers in their 30s)
Here they report on their experiences, accompanying their reports with a lot of pictures.
A Food Tale About the Local Ingredients of Saku
Azuma~（A company employee）
The Sake and fish of Nagano, a land-locked prefecture, as experienced by a Sake-loving company employee who currently works in community revitalization and earlier was a reporter and a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers radio volunteer in Bangladesh.
NEWS
The website has been renewed
2021.3.01
Added content
2021.3.15
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SAKU AREA
About the Saku area
The Saku area is in the eastern part of Nagano prefecture, where nature and people live harmoniously together. It consists of Saku city, Komoro city, North-Saku-gun: Karuizawa town, Miyota town, Tateshina town, South-Saku-gun: Sakuho town, Koumi town, Kitaaiki village, Minamiaiki village, and Kawakami village. It is adjacent to Gunma, Saitama, and Yamanashi prefectures. Including many famous mountains surround Saku, as Mt. Asama, Yatsugatake, and Okuchichibu mountain range, and Japan's longest river, Chikuma River, runs through the center from north to south. It is an area with some of Japan's highest plateaus’s, Karuizawa, Nobeyama, and Tateshina. Saku's industry and lifestyle are woven together with the unique climate of the inland plateau. The high ratio of sunny days, the temperature difference between day and night, it’s cool summer, and it’s severe cold in winter contribute to forming the way people live with the surrounding natural forces.
*Excerpt from the book "Saku 72 Pentads"