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Brown Sugar, Blessings of the Fields and Awamori

A Journey to Feel the Secret of Healthy Longevity

Tour Story

"Okinawa brown sugar", "Awamori", and "island-grown vegetables and fruits" used in Okinawan cuisine, which is the secret of health and longevity. This tour will give you a taste of Okinawan food and people's daily life. Enjoy the sounds that change with the direction of the wind, the sounds of living creatures if you listen carefully, and the smells of the soil, grass, and fields.

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Tour Digest

The tour includes a walking tour and an Awamori distillery tour with tour guide. The walking tour includes a visit to the fields of sugarcane, an island vegetable essential to Okinawa's health and longevity. After visiting those places, you will try to make your own original fruits liquor with the elements of Okinawan health and longevity.

Tour Outline

●Walking tour

While walking with a guide around the fields where island vegetables, fruits, sugarcane, etc. are grown, visitors will experience how Okinawa brown sugar and vegetables and fruits grown on the island are rooted in people's lives.

●Awamori distillery tour

Awamori has been handed down since the Ryukyu Kingdom Period and brings various "connections" to the Okinawan people. Visitors can learn more about Awamori through Awamori distillery tour and tastings.
*If you cannot drink alcohol, you can sample "Moromi vinegar," which is proceed during the Awamori production process.

●Okinawan brown sugar

Four hundred years ago, during the Ryukyu Kingdom Period, brown sugar manufacturing technology was introduced from China, and Okinawa brown sugar has continued its history together with the Ryukyu Islands and Okinawa.
Visitors can touch about the appeal of brown sugar and how to incorporate it into their daily lives while eating the brown sugar produced in Okinawa.

●Experience of original fruits liquor making

Using brown sugar, island grown fruits and Awamori which are the secret of Okinawa's health and longevity, an original fruit liquor will be made with a recipe supervised by a culinary researcher.
Enjoy the mineral-rich original fruit liquor with family and friends even after returning home.


【 Notes on reservation 】

●Drivers and minors are not allowed to taste Awamori (alcoholic beverage). Age verification may be conducted on the day of the tour.
●Please contact with us about children's participation.
●The price vary depending on the number of participants. Also, depending on the season due to the use of seasonal fruits. Please inquire for details.
●Meeting times will be change depending on the location. Please contact us for details.
●Please contact us if you would like a different start time for the tour. Please note that the tour content may change depending on the start time.
●Please note that the itinerary may be changed or cancelled depending on the season, weather, or other factors.
●Please wear comfortable walking shoes and clothes that are easy to walk around in. Please wear sunscreen, sunglasses, and a hat to protect yourself from heat stroke and sunburn, and bring drinking water.
●If you live in an area where fruits are restricted due to airport quarantine, etc., we may give you the recipe and ask you to make fruit liquor after you return home, so please check with us beforehand.
●Please be aware that temperatures and humidity are expected to be extremely high during the summer season. Please take precautions against sunburn and heat stroke by yourself. If you do not feel well during the tour, please do not hesitate to ask our staff for help.


Cooperation

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