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DYA717 Japan, Niigata Sake Tour, Feb 25, 2019 Day 1, Tokyo to Niigata
6:30 a.m. breakfast at the lobby floor café. Nice modest buffet. They had NATTO but we were told not to eat NATTO and/or yogurt because of the active bacteria in them. Bummers! I met 4 guys from Hawaii who were in Tokyo 3 days or so and will be joining our group going to Niigata today. I checked out, dumped luggage in conference room. We then had a lecture by John Gauntner, a noted sake expert. Then we were jammed into about 4-5 taxis and rushed to Tokyo Station. Along the way, I started getting motion sickness. Bummers! Caught the Joetsu Shinkansen (I think) which was a double train. It made several stops but at someplace, I think was Echigo, it split up and our train went to Niigata. I don’t remember where the other part went to. Jumped on a bus in Niigata and we got to meet the whole group, some of whom were in Niigata earlier. We have 14 travelers along with Etsuko and Jason our guides/coordinators/photographer/etc. 5 are from the mainland US, 5 of us from Hawaii, 3 from Australia and one from Canada.
We went directly to Shibata town and visited Ichishima Brewery. They run a café and we had an awesome lunch there (except for me – got more motion sickness on the bus)! Everyone said was ONO local food from the area. I just looked at the food! ☹ Our brewery tour leader Kenji is the 7th generation of sake brewer there. He lived in the states, studied Physics and returned Japan to take over the family business. His family is among the biggest land owner in Niigata. Plenty sake during lunch. Then a walk around the brewery, visited their museum and finally more tasting in their sales room. On the bus Etsuko gave us a tour gift package. Among other things, we received a special blue cloth bag and a sake cup (O-CHO-KO). On the way back to town, they served sake on the bus – more tasting! Today we had our OCHOKO but were reminded that in the future, no OCHOKO, no SAKE! ???? Got to the ANA Crowne Plaza hotel around 6 p.m.-ish (I forgot), got checked in and rested a bit. 7:30 p.m. met & then taxi’ed over for kaiseki dinner. ONO food! More sake! Then geisha party! The ladies refer to water as YA-WA-RA-GI and suggest we take a sip of sake, then a sip of YA-WA-RA-GI. Pretty fun night. Oyasuminasai.