Tokyo Wineries in Autumn: New Wine, Winery Tours and Tokyo-Grown Grapes

Autumn is the busiest — and most interesting — season in winemaking. Freshly harvested grapes arrive at the winery, the berries are taken off the bunches and crushed, and fermentation begins. This work, called shikomi in Japanese, happens every year right in the middle of Tokyo, too.

This site lists six urban wineries in Tokyo. This page sums up, from each winery's official information, what goes on at Tokyo's wineries from autumn into winter: when the new wines come out, and whether you can watch or join the winemaking. For an introduction to each winery, see Tokyo Urban Wineries: 6 places to buy and drink wine made in Tokyo.

Japanese wine is starting to win recognition worldwide

Before we get to Tokyo's wineries, a quick look at where Japanese wine (made only from grapes grown in Japan) stands today.

• Japanese grapes on the international list: Japan's native white grape Koshu (in 2010) and the red Muscat Bailey A (in 2013) were added to the grape variety list of the OIV (International Organisation of Vine and Wine). It was the first time a grape native to Japan was internationally recognized as a wine grape, and it meant wine could be exported to the EU with "Koshu" on the label (according to Yamanashi Prefecture).
• A top prize at an international competition: At the Decanter World Wine Awards, one of the world's largest wine competitions, Suntory's "Tomi Koshu 2022" won Best in Show — the highest award — in 2024. It was the first time a wine entered from Japan won it. In 2025, wines from Japan won eight medals at Gold or above.
• The most-used grapes are Japanese varieties: According to a survey by the National Tax Agency of Japan, the Japanese-grown grapes used most for Japanese wine were Koshu for white (3,567 t) and Muscat Bailey A for red (2,388 t) (April 2024 to March 2025).

Tokyo, too, has 22 places licensed to make wine (fruit wine production licenses; National Tax Agency, as of January 2025, including trial licenses). Far from the vineyards, in the middle of a big city, grapes are brought in from the growing regions and made into wine — that is an urban winery.

Tokyo's wineries in autumn at a glance

*Scroll the table sideways. Based on each winery's official information as of September 2026 (including the previous year's results). Always check event dates and prices with the winery.

Tokyo Winery (Nerima, Oizumi-gakuen): wine from grapes grown in Tokyo

Tokyo Winery is the only one of the six that makes wine mainly from grapes harvested in Tokyo. "Nerima Blanc" is made from 100% Nerima-grown grapes, and the lineup also includes grapes from Kokubunji, "Takao" (a grape variety born in Tokyo), and wild mountain grapes (yamabudo) from a farm in Kunitachi — wines tied to vineyards inside Tokyo.

The autumn highlight is "Nerima Nouveau," a November-only new wine made only from Nerima-grown grapes. In 2025 it went on sale in early November and was also sold at the tourist information centers at Nerima and Shakujii-koen stations. Winemaking starts with destemming and crushing in mid-October and continues until bottling at the end of November. The winter winemaking course, where you can take part in that process, has four sessions for ¥20,000, and you take home two bottles of the wine you made, with labels (the 2025 course was fully booked).

Fukagawa Winery Tokyo (Monzen-nakacho): winery tours and a new wine party

Fukagawa Winery Tokyo offers the most chances to see inside a winery. Winery tours run on weekends and holidays at 14:00 and 16:00 and take about 30 to 45 minutes: ¥1,650 for the tour with a tasting of three wines, or ¥3,500 including a bottle to take home. During the autumn winemaking season, you may be able to see crushing and fermentation.

In 2025 it held a new wine release party on December 6 and 7: two new wines poured straight from the server plus snacks for ¥2,000. On October 4 and 5, 2026, a course combining a tasting of five Muscat Bailey A wines with a winery tour (¥3,000) is also scheduled. The winery grows grapes in planters on the rooftop of the Akafudado supermarket in front of Monzen-nakacho Station, and the first harvest — one bucketful — is to be used as a yeast starter for its winemaking.

FUJIMARU Kiyosumi-shirakawa: winemaking began in September

FUJIMARU Kiyosumi-shirakawa makes wine from grapes grown in eastern Japan. In 2026, the winemaking season began on September 11, with destemming, crushing and pressing Delaware grapes from Yamagata, and Muscat Bailey A from Ibaraki was due to arrive next. The restaurant always has two wines on tap, served straight from the barrel from the winery on the first floor — so you can drink last year's wine right next to a winery in the middle of this year's crush.

BookRoad, Shibuya Winery Tokyo and WINEMAN FACTORY

BookRoad in Okachimachi is a garage winery that makes wine nonstop for ten months, from August to the following May. Tours are held on weekends from 11:30 (¥1,000 per person, first 8 people, reservation required), and you can taste two recommended wines at the shop. Its 2025-vintage Sauvignon Blanc and Niagara are available in its online shop.

Shibuya Winery Tokyo has announced that in 2026 it will make only one batch from Japanese grapes and will not hold harvest or winemaking events for the public (it refers visitors to its sister winery, Fukagawa Winery Tokyo). You can watch the winery through the glass.

WINEMAN FACTORY in Tamachi publishes the crush date and release date of each wine. In 2025, Delaware crushed on August 17 went on sale on October 14, the batch crushed on August 31 on November 7, and Koshu from Katsunuma on December 5. From autumn into winter, you can follow the year's wines as they come out one by one.

How to enjoy Tokyo's wineries in autumn

• To take a tour: Fukagawa Winery Tokyo (weekends and holidays, from ¥1,650) and BookRoad (weekends, ¥1,000). During the winemaking season, you may see a winery filled with the smell of fermentation
• To drink wine from Tokyo-grown grapes: Tokyo Winery's "Nerima Nouveau" and "Nerima Blanc"
• To follow the new wines: Tokyo Winery (November), WINEMAN FACTORY (October to December, one after another), and Fukagawa Winery Tokyo's new wine party (December in 2025)
• To compare with Beaujolais Nouveau: Beaujolais Nouveau is released on Thursday, November 19, 2026. Tasting it side by side with new wines from Tokyo or Yamanashi shows clearly how grape and place change a wine, even when both are "this year's new wine"

For more on Japanese wine, see our Japanese wine guide. For shops that sell it, see where to buy Japanese wine in Tokyo.

Related: Tokyo Urban Wineries / Japanese Wine Guide / Where to Buy Japanese Wine in Tokyo

*Based on each winery's official information as of September 2026, the National Tax Agency's survey of the liquor manufacturing and wholesale industries, and company announcements. Release dates and events described as previous-year results may not be repeated in 2026. Tour dates and prices may change, so please check each winery's latest information. You must be 20 or older to drink alcohol in Japan.