Sapporo Beer Museum [サッポロビール博物館]
Sapporo Beer Museum
Old building using for restaurant
Sapporo Beer Museum is the only museum about beer in Japan, and it is located about 2 km east of JR Sapporo station.
This place was originally a site of a sugar factory.
Sapporo Breweries Limited bought up it in 1903, and it was used as a processing factory of barley until 1965.
This factory became the museum in 1982.
Sapporo Breweries Limited is one of five Japan's major beer breweries, and the product is commonly called "Sapporo Beer".
Inside of Sapporo Beer Museum
Inside of Sapporo Beer Museum
This museum has the exhibits of introduction and history of the company, instruments for brewing, old bottles or posters and other articles.
It has also paid guided tour.
Of course, you can sample the beer.
And there are a few restaurants next to the museum.
It serves the factory-direct beer.
How to get here
Get off at Higashi-Kuyakusho-mae station of subway Toho Line.
About 1 km walk from there.
Or, get off at "Sapporo Beer-en" stop by route bus from Sapporo station.
It takes about 15 minutes.
