Kirin Beer Yokohama Factory, Tsurumi, Japan
As beer is the most popular alcoholic drink in Japan there are plenty of interesting beers and beer history to discover. Yokohama Factory is one of nine factories of the Kirin Brewery Company, Limited (Chitose, Sendai, Toride, Yokohama, Nagoya, Shiga, Kobe, Okayama, and Fukuoka). Yokohama factory offers free tours that last around 80 minutes.
If you are curious about Japanese beer and how it is manufactured, taking a tour at Kirin Beer Village in Yokohama is a very good experience and a lot of fun. As you also receive three different types of beers for free you might like it so much that you go there everyday!
Kirin Beer Village in Yokohama is a 7-minute walk from Nama-mugi Station on the Keikyu line. The tours are given to groups of between two to 35 people every 40 minutes, starting at 10:00 AM and finishing at 4:00 PM.
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