Hagi Trip Overview
Tour Concept
Our new project “FURUSATO Cycling” tour is launched to offer an experience in which you can fully enjoy the “REAL HAGI”. We offer a guided cycling tour where you will be able to feel the local life and visit special spots which usually cannot be visited, while cycling through the beautiful countryside.
Our first tour project is centered on Japanese rice wine “sake”. We will follow the “made-in-Hagi sake” brewing process showing where the rice and water ingredients are collected. Also, we will be visiting the local sake brewery and rice polishing facility.
・Length of the course: Approx. 11 km.
・Time of tour: 3 hours 30 minutes
・Bike brand: Giant
・Equipped with a mud guard (rear wheel), a pouch and a drink holder.
* Private tours are also available *
Recommended for those who want to go around at their own pace and those who want to spend their private time.
Lunch is also available.
If you wish, please contact us separately.
Additional Info
Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
Starts: Hagi, Japan
Trip Category: Tours & Sightseeing >> Half-day Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Hagi, Yamaguchi, Japan
Tour Concept
Our new project “FURUSATO Cycling” tour is launched to offer an experience in which you can fully enjoy the “REAL HAGI”. We offer a guided cycling tour where you will be able to feel the local life and visit special spots which usually cannot be visited, while cycling through the beautiful countryside.
Our first tour project is centered on Japanese rice wine “sake”. We will follow the “made-in-Hagi sake” brewing process showing where the rice and water ingredients are collected. Also, we will be visiting the local sake brewery and rice polishing facility.
・Length of the course: Approx. 11 km.
・Time of tour: 3 hours 30 minutes
・Bike brand: Giant
・Equipped with a mud guard (rear wheel), a pouch and a drink holder.
* Private tours are also available *
Recommended for those who want to go around at their own pace and those who want to spend their private time.
Lunch is also available.
If you wish, please contact us separately.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Kibekami, Hagi, Yamaguchi 758-0304, Japan
We will explain about sake rice using flip charts while looking at the rice fields where sake rice is grown from a little hill.
The content that tickles the intellectual curiosity of sake lovers will increase your love for sake.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: 萩酒米みがき協同組合, 2226-1 Kibeshimo, Hagi, Yamaguchi 758-0305, Japan
【Sake rice polishing factory】
The process “polishing” is performed before the actually harvested sake rice is transported to the sake brewery.
The taste of sake will be different with just one polish.
At this factory, while actually seeing the machine that “polishs” sake rice, we will approach the taste of sake that changes with polishing.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Unrin-ji Temple, 2489 Kibekami, Hagi 758-0304 Yamaguchi Prefecture
Unrinji is commonly known as “Cat Temple” and is full of cat-related figurines.
Don’t miss the wood carving cat made with a chainsaw.
Even if you don’t like cats, you’ll definitely be curious!
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Unrinji (Cat Temple), 2489 Kibekami, Hagi, Yamaguchi 758-0304, Japan
Spring spots that local people still use in their daily lives
It feels good to put your feet on because it’s chilly in the summer! !!
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Unrinji (Cat Temple), 2489 Kibekami, Hagi, Yamaguchi 758-0304, Japan
Sprint along the road surrounded by rice fields while seeing the best rural scenery on the course!
Stop At: Yachiyo Shuzo, 3306 Kibeshimo, Hagi, Yamaguchi 758-0305, Japan
【Yachiyo Sake Brewery】
A sake brewery where female forests play an active role.
Pursuing a new Yachiyo brand while valuing the old-fashioned manufacturing method.
It is said to be the heart of sake breweries, and depending on the brewery, you can easily see the “Muro”, sample the “prepared water” used for brewing, and prepare sake lees tasting.
After the tour, you will also have a tasting and you will be immersed in sake both physically and mentally.
Duration: 35 minutes
