expedia
Skip to Main Content.
List your propertySupportTrips
Member discount illustration

Members save 10% or more on over 100,000 hotels worldwide when you’re signed in

Sign in
Learn about Expedia Rewards
Feedback
Sakurajima Ferry
Sakurajima Radish Harvest Experience
Wakashio Distillery
Shochu Blending Experience
Wakashio Distillery

Kagoshima Nature and Food Culture Private Tour

By JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc.
Free cancellation available
Price is ฿18,378 per adult
See tickets
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 9h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview

Embark on this experiential tour visiting places related to food, sake, and tableware, and trace the natural and cultural roots that gave birth to Kagoshima's food culture. With well-drained soil made of volcanic ash from Sakurajima and the Kirishima Mountains, rich seas including Kinko Bay, and a history as an important maritime trade hub through which various cultures from around the world have been introduced, Kagoshima is a land where a unique and rich food culture has been nurtured. First, enjoy interacting with local farmers in a field at the foot of Sakurajima, where regional circular farming method utilising the natural environment is used. Afterwards, visit a distillery that makes shochu, a speciality of Kagoshima, and experience blending an original shochu. The last leg of the tour is a visit to a Satsuma ware shop right next to a pottery studio.

Activity location

  • Ferry Boarding to Sakurajima
    • 鹿児島港桜島ＦＴ（桜島フェリー） Honkōshinmachi
    • 892-0814, Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Kagoshima Chuo Station East Exit Station Square Tourist Information Center
    • 1 37
    • 890-0053, Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan

Check availability

Kagoshima Nature and Food Culture Private Tour
  • Activity duration is 9 hours9h
    9h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 8:50
Price details
฿18,377.71 x 2 Adults฿36,755.42
Total
Price is ฿36,755.42
Until Tue, 1 Jul
Return to your original page

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedOther admission fees, experience fees, and transport costs included in the tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedNational Government Licensed English Guide Interpreter fee
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFees other than those listed in Includes

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Please note that participants may not join partway through the tour. Also, participants may join only from the meeting location specified in advance.
  • While transport will be by private vehicle for each group, each experience included in the itinerary may be shared with other customers.
  • The order of activities and arrival times may differ on the day depending on reasons such as road conditions and congestion at destinations.
  • The experience activity in Farmland Sakurajima may be held in the indoor cafe on the premises due to reasons such as inclement weather.
  • Shochu made by customers during the shochu blending experience may be taken home in a 720 ml bottle per person. Please be aware that restrictions on bringing alcoholic drinks vary by country.
  • Children up to 5 years old may join free of charge, but will not be provided with vehicle seats or experience activities. If vehicle seats or experience activities are required, please make a booking under the child rate.
  • Customers are free to have lunch at the Tarumizu Roadside Station. Customers are to pay for their own lunch as it is not included in the tour booking charge.
  • As suitcases cannot be brought during the tour, please leave them in a locker or at your hotel before participating.
  • Parental permission in writing is necessary for all tour participants under the age of eighteen. Any participant under the age of fifteen or not yet enrolled in middle school must be joined by a parent or guardian on the tour.
  • Tour's total duration is 9 hours, though, the total duration listed in the itinerary is 3 hours 30 minutes. The remaining hours are allotted for the travel time

Activity itinerary

Ferry Boarding to Sakurajima
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
Departure for Sakurajima Ferry Terminal
Sakurajima Daikon Field
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Farmland Sakurajima is a rare farm located at the foot of an active volcano. As part of initiatives to coexist with nature, a variety of crops are grown here using a regional circular farming method that utilises nature, in which seaweed grown in Kinko Bay is used as fertiliser and clean water is returned to the sea. On this tour, sit on the field with a magnificent view of Sakurajima towering right before your eyes and enjoy sweets made with field-grown crops while listening to stories from farmers.
Roadside Station Tarumizu Yuttarikan
  • 45m
The tour will stop at Tarumizu Roadside Station located in Tarumi, an area which became connected to Sakurajima due to a past major eruption, and is surrounded by the natural beauty of Kagoshima, including Sakurajima, Kinko Bay, and the Kirishima Mountains. Customers can purchase their own lunch here. Meal charges not included in the tour. *Credit cards cannot be used for payment at Roadside Station Tarumizu Yuttarikan, so please be sure to bring cash.
Wakashio Shuzо̄
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
Kagoshima is known as the kingdom of shochu, with over 100 breweries and more than 2,000 brands in the prefecture. Shochu, produced in the blessed nature of Kagoshima, is one Japan's most popular distilled drinks. At Wakashio Distillery, after a tour of the distillery where shochu is actually made, customers can enjoy a shochu blending experience where they can mix various shochu according to their own taste to create their own original shochu. Shochu that customers blended can be taken home in a bottle. *Customers under 20 years of age cannot join the shochu blending experience.
RYUMONJIYAKI POTTERY
  • 20m
At the end of this culinary tour of Kagoshima, visit a direct sales shop of a pottery studio where tableware that goes well with food is made. Kagoshima is famous for its Satsuma ware pottery. There are two types: Shiromon (White Satsuma), which is primarily used for ornaments and figurines, and Kuromon (Black Satsuma), which is often used for items such as sake utensils for drinking shochu and other drinks. Ryumonjiyaki is a school of Satsuma ware that continues the tradition of Kuromon. Touring the pottery studio is not included. Only the shop next to the pottery studio will be visited.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESFerry Boarding to Sakurajima
    • 鹿児島港桜島ＦＴ（桜島フェリー） Honkōshinmachi
    • 892-0814, Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEKagoshima Chuo Station East Exit Station Square Tourist Information Center
    • 1 37
    • 890-0053, Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan

Best Deals on Things to Do

Experience the wonders of the world up close with great deals on things to do near and far. Expedia offers one-of-a-kind activities that allow you to explore Kagoshima your way. Whether you love nature, culture, food or a bit of adventure, we have the perfect activity for you.

Top experiences in Kagoshima

With so many things to do in Kagoshima, planning the perfect day out may seem like a daunting task. Expedia is here to take the hassle out of finding the best attractions, tours and activities in Kagoshima. Families, couples and business travellers can all find the perfect activity in Kagoshima to create life-long memories with the help of Expedia.