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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels  - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-katsunuma-2.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels  - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    katsunuma-wine-barrels-2.jpg
  • Koshu Grapes Katsunuma Vineyards - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels  - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    katsunuma-wine-barrels-6.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels  - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    katsunuma-wine-barrels-5.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels  - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    katsunuma-wine-barrels-3.jpg
  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-katsunuma-1.jpg
  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-katsunuma-3.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels  - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    katsunuma-wine-barrels-1.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels  - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Modern Japanese Garden at Chateau Katsunuma - The late 20th century and 21st century has seen a large increase and interest in Japanese gardening.  Most 5 star hotels in Tokyo and Kyoto now find that guests, especially foreign guests, appreciate this unique art form and have come to expect it.  With the "wine boom" in Katsunuma Yamanashi, where the Japanese wine industry is located, there is increasing interest in wine tours.  One of the foremost of these venues is Chateau Katsunuma, one of the finest in the area.  To please its guests, a beautiful Japanese garden has been added to the grounds to enhance the appeal of the property.
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  • Modern Japanese Garden at Chateau Katsunuma - The late 20th century and 21st century has seen a large increase and interest in Japanese gardening.  Most 5 star hotels in Tokyo and Kyoto now find that guests, especially foreign guests, appreciate this unique art form and have come to expect it.  With the "wine boom" in Katsunuma Yamanashi, where the Japanese wine industry is located, there is increasing interest in wine tours.  One of the foremost of these venues is Chateau Katsunuma, one of the finest in the area.  To please its guests, a beautiful Japanese garden has been added to the grounds to enhance the appeal of the property.
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  • Katsunuma Tunnel Wine Cave in Koshu Yamanashi in the heart of Japan’s wine country.  The tunnel is now used to store wine although the brick tunnel was built in 1903 for a railway line that is now unused.  The tunnel is just over one kilometer long and except for bottles and barrels of wine remains unchanged from its days as Japan Railways' Fukazawa Tunnel.  Throughout the year the temperature is kept around 10 °C, and the humidity is normally around 50% which are ideal conditions for wines to be stored and to mature.  At the moment more than 1 million bottles of wine are stored here.  After Japan Railways abandoned the tunnel and the railway line that once used it it fell into neglect, and was once a popular haikyo URBEX abandoned site for urban explorers,  Now it has new life as an ideal place to store wines in the ever-improving Japanese wine industry of which Yamanashi, and Koshu in particular, are at the heart of.
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  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-yamanashi-5.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    yamanashi-winery-18.jpg
  • Grace Winery Katsunuma - A young Japanese man raised in Katsunuma, Yamanashi was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma. Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers. Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.  This has started a “wine boom” in Japan not only with imported wines from France, California, Chile and Italy with the home-grown varieties. Wine tours have the effect of increasing tourism to Yamanashi and so twee hotels have opened in the area as well as European style restaurants and bakeries to compliment the wines.
    yamanashi-winery-17.jpg
  • Koshu Grapes Katsunuma Vineyards - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    yamanashi-vineyards-02.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    yamanashi-winery-19.jpg
  • Grace Winery Katsunuma - A young Japanese man raised in Katsunuma, Yamanashi was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma. Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers. Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.  This has started a “wine boom” in Japan not only with imported wines from France, California, Chile and Italy with the home-grown varieties. Wine tours have the effect of increasing tourism to Yamanashi and so twee hotels have opened in the area as well as European style restaurants and bakeries to compliment the wines.
    yamanashi-winery-35.jpg
  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-yamanashi-6.jpg
  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-yamanashi-3.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels  - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    yamanashi-winery-26.jpg
  • Katsunuma Vineyards - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    yamanashi-vineyards-03.jpg
  • Grace Winery Katsunuma - A young Japanese man raised in Katsunuma, Yamanashi was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma. Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers. Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.  This has started a “wine boom” in Japan not only with imported wines from France, California, Chile and Italy with the home-grown varieties. Wine tours have the effect of increasing tourism to Yamanashi and so twee hotels have opened in the area as well as European style restaurants and bakeries to compliment the wines.
    yamanashi-winery-16.jpg
  • Suzuki-en Bed & Breakfast in Katsunuma Wine Country that caters to wine tours - A young Japanese man raised in Katsunuma, Yamanashi was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma. Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers. Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.  This has started a “wine boom” in Japan not only with imported wines from France, California, Chile and Italy with the home-grown varieties. Wine tours have the effect of increasing tourism to Yamanashi and so twee hotels have opened in the area as well as European style restaurants and bakeries to compliment the wines.
    yamanashi-winery-9.jpg
  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-yamanashi-4.jpg
  • Wine Tasting Room at Kurambon Winery, Katsunuma - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-yamanashi-2.jpg
  • Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
    wine-tasting-yamanashi-1.jpg
  • Suzuki-en Bed & Breakfast in Katsunuma Wine Country that caters to wine tours - A young Japanese man raised in Katsunuma, Yamanashi was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma. Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers. Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.  This has started a “wine boom” in Japan not only with imported wines from France, California, Chile and Italy with the home-grown varieties. Wine tours have the effect of increasing tourism to Yamanashi and so twee hotels have opened in the area as well as European style restaurants and bakeries to compliment the wines.
    yamanashi-winery-28.jpg
  • Katsunuma Wine Caves & Barrels - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Katsunuma Vineyards - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Ceramic Wine Barrels - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Sommelier at  & Wine Tasting Room - Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Katsunuma Wine Country Art Cafe - A young Japanese man raised in Katsunuma, Yamanashi was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma. Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers. Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.  This has started a “wine boom” in Japan not only with imported wines from France, California, Chile and Italy with the home-grown varieties. Wine tours have the effect of increasing tourism to Yamanashi and so twee hotels have opened in the area as well as European style restaurants, cafes and bakeries to compliment the wines.
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  • Ceramic Wine Barrels Yamanashi is the birthplace of Japanese wine. A young man raised in Katsunuma was dispatched to France in 1870  to learn techniques in winemaking and from these beginnings many wineries were established in Katsunuma.  Since the 1870s, wineries in Koshu and Katsunuma have continued to refine their product to cultivate some fairly impressive wines.  In just the Katsunuma area alone, one can find well over 200 winemakers.  Katsunuma has a unique climate that is natural for viticulture because of the soil and climate.  Most wineries have their own caves for aging the wines, and others use a disused railway tunnel with a perfect conditions for storing wine that is rented out.  This gives the wines the needed time to age wines slowly.  At first they are aged in French oak barrels, and at the opportune moment they are bottled.  Many of the wineries, including Grace, Chateau Katsunuma and Kurambon among the finest in the region, have tasting rooms and tours of their vineyards.
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  • Katsunuma Tunnel Wine Cave in Koshu Yamanashi in the heart of Japan’s wine country.  The tunnel is now used to store wine although the brick tunnel was built in 1903 for a railway line that is now unused.  The tunnel is just over one kilometer long and except for bottles and barrels of wine remains unchanged from its days as Japan Railways' Fukazawa Tunnel.  Throughout the year the temperature is kept around 10 °C, and the humidity is normally around 50% which are ideal conditions for wines to be stored and to mature.  At the moment more than 1 million bottles of wine are stored here.  After Japan Railways abandoned the tunnel and the railway line that once used it it fell into neglect, and was once a popular haikyo URBEX abandoned site for urban explorers,  Now it has new life as an ideal place to store wines in the ever-improving Japanese wine industry of which Yamanashi, and Koshu in particular, are at the heart of.
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  • Daizenji Japanese Garden - Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Sammon Gate Guardian - Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Japanese Garden - Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Japanese Garden - Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Japanese Garden - Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Japanese Garden - Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Japanese Garden - Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Daizenji Japanese Garden - Daizenji Temple was built in Koshu by Buddhist priest Gyoki in 718.  It is sometimes called the “grape temple” as Gyoki was met by the presence of Yakushi Nyorai the Buddhist disciple of healing holding a cluster of grapes. As a result the temple has come to be called "the birthplace of the Koshu Grape.”  The temple even offers wine tasting, the only one in Japan to honor this custom, since it is at the heart of the Katsunuma wine district of Yamanashi.  Over the course of its long history, many of the temple structures have been destroyed by natural disaster - most of what remains is Yakushi Hall and the Sammon Gate.  Daizenji also has an impressive Japanese pond garden within its grounds, ideally viewed from the washitsu tatami room
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  • Erinji temple was built in 1330 with Muso Soseki as its founder. Muso was in his day the foremost designer of Japanese gardens, and went on to design many gardens in Kyoto, some of which are UNESCO world heritage sites such as Saihoji and Tenryuji.   Although the garden was built at the same time, the original entire temple burned down in the sixteenth century.  Erinji is a part of the Myoshin-ji Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism.   The temple  was once the family temple of Takeda Shingen who is buried here.
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  • Erinji temple was built in 1330 with Muso Soseki as its founder. Muso was in his day the foremost designer of Japanese gardens, and went on to design many gardens in Kyoto, some of which are UNESCO world heritage sites such as Saihoji and Tenryuji.   Although the garden was built at the same time, the original entire temple burned down in the sixteenth century.  Erinji is a part of the Myoshin-ji Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism.   The temple  was once the family temple of Takeda Shingen who is buried here.
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