The other week we took a 15 minute ride on the train to our local sake brewery area, and did a very pleasant tour of some of the breweries and their bars 
I blogged about it at the gaijinpot blog here:
Lets Tour Sake
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jim you obviously wrote this the moment you got back, where's the link?
you can find it via the previous entry on the ebisu matsuri until jim sobers up ;p