Soy Sauce Tour: Craft Your Own Bottle

Discover the art of soy sauce making in Asuka Nara. Press, taste, and personalize your own bottle at a historic brewery.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Tokuboshi Soy Sauce Factory - Established 105 years ago, Tokusei Soy Sauce has been producing soy sauce near the entrance to Okadera Temple in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture. Visitors can enjoy a tour of the brewery and have the unique opportunity to use an original press to create their own soy sauce from the mash. The experience is enhanced by…
What's Included
  • Snacks
What's Not Included
  • Private transportation
Additional Information

Soy sauce is a vital component in Japanese cuisine. After exploring an authentic soy sauce brewery with over a century of history, guests can engage in a hands-on activity of extracting soy sauce from moromi, the soy sauce base, using a traditional wooden press.
Conclude the experience by attaching a personalized label to the bottle. Guests will have the…

Location
明日香スタンド
We will be accepting applications inside the Asuka stand.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Meeshpogo
Oct 25, 2025
Great shoyu tour - It was a lovely experience! So amazing to see the shoyu barrels. The dumplings were delicious. The owner was very open and kind.
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673caitlynj
Oct 24, 2025
Best experience ever! - If there is one thing to do in Japan, it is this. This experience should be on the top of your list. While a bif hard to get to, it was a joy to experience pressing, bottling, and tasting soy sauce made locally in Asuka, Japan. Next year, Asuka is going to be a designated World Heritage site. Our guide, 力、 told us all about the area and its history. We got to learn all about the steps of making soy sauce, wear costumes to keep our clothes clean, and go up to the barrels to see the fermentation! It was one of the coolest things and quite possibly the highlight of our time here! Thank you to Chikara and the wonderful staff!
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Alisonmerlef
Oct 17, 2025
Fascinating, do not miss it! - If we could give more than 5/5 we would! This was a completely unique experience and the highlight of our trip. Must do!!!
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Q4606yhryanh
Oct 16, 2025
So fun! - Making our own bottles of soy was a great experience! Koei was an excellent guide and xceeded our expectations. Was the perfect amount of time at each stop.
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K7785xzsamw
Sep 29, 2025
Soy sauce making - Very fun and interesting hands-on experience making and tasting soy sauce in a local traditional soy sauce brewery. The tour guides put a lot of effort into making the experience nice for us :)
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Mariaromana_c
Aug 8, 2025
Soy sauce unveiled - Super friendly people, very interesting visit, highly recommended. Reaching the location from Nara was easier than expected and Asuka is worth visiting.
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Mrlyndon
Aug 8, 2025
The secrets of soy sauce - the secrets of soy sauce told by a team of professional and very kind people. An experience highly recommended to all food lovers: visit a small soy brewery that boasts a centuries-old tradition. You make your own bottle of soy and taste some very interesting varieties. Getting to this village is easier than it looks and the team that organizes the experience provides all the details precisely. Also highly recommended is a visit to the streets of the village, preserved excellently.
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Toki-chan
Jul 17, 2025
Such an Awesome Tour with a great take home Gift! - Exciting to see how soy sauce is made in the traditional way. Loved nerding out while getting the history and usage of different soy sauces. Got to make my own sauces and bought some of the others they had made. Cannot recommend enough!
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Marjorie
Jun 7, 2025
A very unique and interesting excursion - learned about the process and got to press our own batch to take home. - We got to learn about the history of soy sauce, the different types of sauce, the process of making it and we got to press our own fresh batch to take home. A short tour in the historic town which is in the process of applying to be a national heritage site - and a delicious snack of local treats finished the tour -
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Celenavotel
Jun 6, 2025
Fun learning experience plus a personalized bottle to take home - This experience was one of our favorites of the trip. I had no idea the process of how to make soy sauce. It gave us a real appreciation of this important cultural Japan pastime. The bonus is you get a souvenir to bring home of the soy sauce you pressed! Win win
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From $78
up to 6 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).