Aichi 2 venues
Hokkaido 6 venues
- BARCOM Sapporo Hokkaido Wines Spanish-style wine bar in Sapporo serving Hokkaido ingredients as tapas, with wine pairing sets starting at 2,000 yen and a 50% female clientele.
- Domaine Bless Café Tour Yoichi winery combining traditional Japanese techniques with state-of-the-art winemaking; May-September café tours with reservations at 1 PM.
- La nature Wine Café Natural wine hideaway at the base of Sapporo's Moiwa Mountain—small-batch wines with Japanese sensibilities.
- LOOP Wine Pairing Dinner Yoichi's Michelin-trained chef pairs 9-course seasonal tasting with rare Hokkaido wines (Domaine Takahiko, Hirakawa); sommelier Kuratomi sources offbeat small-production bottles.
- OcciGabi Winery Tour Yoichi's underground winery with garden tastings—featured on Copenhagen's Noma wine list.
- Yoichi Winery Tasting Hokkaido's legendary cool-climate winery—free tastings of Pinot Noir, plus stone-oven pizza with 100% local beef.
Hyogo 2 venues
Kyoto 3 venues
- chrome Natural Wine Bar Kyoto's 3000-bottle natural wine hideaway—no wine list, just tell them your taste and get personalized recommendations.
- ESTRE Wine & Bistro Cozy Spanish wine bar in Kyoto's Higashiyama with natural wines and Italian pasta; feel like a local by your second glass.
- Komorebino Machiya Wine Bar Gion's tiny 8-seat natural wine speakeasy (200 wines global) in a machiya townhouse; open daily with 700 yen cover charge since 2017.
Niigata 1 venue
Osaka 2 venues
Tokyo 5 venues
- Ahiru Store Natural Wine Bar Tokyo's most legendary natural wine speakeasy: co-owned by sommelier Teruhiko Saito, tucked in Tomigaya with rotating French natural wines and housemade rillettes.
- Deux Gats Wine Bar
- Fujimaru Winery Shimokitazawa Tokyo urban winery (Kiyosumi-Shirakawa) brewing natural Japanese wines below the restaurant; industrial-chic space from Japan's wine renaissance pioneer Tomofumi Fujimaru.
- No. Wine Bar Ebisu Tokyo wine bar in Ebisu—curated by sommeliers with 1000+ bottles for home or bar service.
- Toyosu 5am: Dawn Sushi + Champagne Toyosu fish market fine dining—freshly prepared sushi with Champagne and Burgundy pairings at 5:30am.
Yamanashi 12 venues
About Yamanashi- Château Mercian Winery Museum Japan's oldest wooden winery (1904) with a wine museum registered as Japan Heritage; first English-language tours in 2023 available.
- Grace Wine Pioneer of dry Koshu since 1923; 6-time Gold Medal winner at Decanter World Wine Awards under winemaker Ayana Misawa's elegant hand.
- Grace Wine Estate Tour Grace Wine (est. 1923) in Katsunuma does NOT offer public tours; focus is on grape growing and winemaking, not visitor experiences.
- Haramo Wine Free Tasting 140-year-old renovated Japanese building in Katsunuma offering free tastings of 10 local wines including rare Black Queen and Delaware varieties.
- Katsunuma Grape Festival Japan's largest wine harvest festival (October) with 50+ food stalls, free entry, and a 90-meter torii-yaki bonfire finale with fireworks.
- Lumière Winery & Cellar Dining 130 years of Japanese winemaking in Katsunuma—dine in the cellar beneath 120-year-old stone tanks.
- Manns Wine Garden & Museum Kikkoman's Katsunuma flagship—museum, wine glass hall, and tasting cafe with 20+ wine samples from ¥100.
- Marufuji Natural Wine Tasting 1890s Japanese pioneer—5 wines for 500 yen, known for earthy Rubaiyat Koshu Sur Lie with mineral finish.
- MGVs Design Winery Modern converted semiconductor factory—glass-walled cellar showcasing Koshu white wines with pristine minimalist design.
- Suntory Tomi no Oka Winery Suntory's flagship estate since 1936—Koshu and Chardonnay tastings from the 150-hectare summit.
- Wine Tourism Yamanashi Festival Spring/summer/autumn wine tourism festival—24+ Yamanashi wineries, ¥1000 glass includes tastings of Koshu and Muscat Bailey A.
- Yamanashi Nouveau Festival November 3rd annual release—60+ new Yamanashi wines from 34 winemakers, Koshu and Muscat Bailey A only.