Sake Museum Experience at Echigo-Yuzawa Station

Entering CoCoLa Yuzawa Shopping Mall, go straight to the store where you can buy alcohol and Niigata rice. Turn right to the entrance of the Ponshu Building, where you can spend 500 yen in exchange for tokens to get a tasting cup. Shochu experience at Echigo-Yuzawa Station, the closest ski resort to Tokyo (Echigo-Yuzawa Station). The small shopping mall inside has local specialty sake and shochu. 500 yen allows you to experience 2-3 different flavors of sake/shochu The store will give you a soju cup. It’s really delicious.