Ureshino Onsen Elegant Sake Brewery Tour to Enjoy Sake, Ureshino Hot Spring, Pottery, and Ureshino Tea Ureshino City, Saga Prefecture & Gochoda Brewery

The townscape, which once flourished as an important post station on the Nagasaki Kaido Road and a harbor on the Shiota River during the Edo period, can still be seen today.
Amakusa porcelain stone transported to Shiota River Port is the raw material for Arita porcelain, and porcelain stone crushing workshops can still be found in Shiota.

This is a popular spot known as one of the three major Inari shrines in Japan (the other two are the Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto and Kasama Inari Shrine in Ibaraki). The shrine was built in 1687 during the Edo period.
In recent years, it has been gaining popularity as a location for TV dramas in Thailand. The shrine is lit up in the evening from October to November, covered with snow around February, and surrounded by cherry blossoms from March to April.
Located in Furueda, Kashima City, adjacent to Ureshino City.

As an option, guests can also enjoy a mini concert by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra String Quartet at the sake brewery.

Ureshino Yadoya is a luxury ryokan inn opened in October 2023.
All the separate rooms are suites, and some of them are luxury suites with indoor and outdoor baths.

Suite rooms are a new feature of this well-established ryokan. Enjoy Ureshino’s Hizen Yoshida-yaki pottery decorated with art jewelry, Ureshino tea service (under the supervision of Ureshino tea farmer Chaya Jiro), and Ureshino tea baths. There is also an Arita-yaki teacup bath.

For breakfast, guests will enjoy the classic Ureshino hot spring tofu. It is delicious and warms the body.

Imaemon Kiln is famous for its world-class Arita-yaki porcelain.
A “modern-day Iro-Nabeshima” that carries on the traditional techniques of “Iro-Nabeshima” and its high level of elegance from the Edo period to the present day.
The technique has been handed down to the fourteenth generation as a family secret, resulting in the formula and technique of Akae (red, yellow, and green overglaze painting), a highly acclaimed method that has been designated as an important intangible cultural asset by the Japanese government.
If the timing is right, guests may meet with Imaemon XIV.
For more information, please visit https://www.imaemon.co.jp/

Ureshino also started the Bizen Yoshida Pottery in 1577, when Japan’s first porcelain ore was discovered, proudly creating unique works of art over 400 years of history and tradition.
Visitors can purchase finished wares, order their own sake cups, or try hands-on painting and pottery making. We will take you to the kiln of your choice.
For more information, please visit https://yoshidayaki.jp/

Located in “Wataya Villa,” a long-established ryokan in Ureshino Onsen, “Risoan” offers dishes centered on Saga beef and other local ingredients.
Visitors will be impressed by the combination of fine dishes and beautiful dishware created by the collaboration with the Arita-yaki “Riso Kiln”.
And then there is the Gochouda Sake Brewery “Azumaichi” …
“For more information, please visit
https://wataya.co.jp/facility/risoan
http://www.risogama.jp/“

Light and uniquely aromatic, kettle-roasted tea is rare even in Japan.

We will invite Ureshino tea farmers to join a tea gathering, which will be helt at the “”Morino Tea Room”” located in the tea field if the weather is fine, or at the Yoshida Tea Room of Soesen Pottery Store in the Hizen Yoshida Pottery Village if the weather is unfavorable.

For more information, please visit
https://tea-tourism.com/experience/