We took a train out to a nearly rural area of Nagoya to the Asahi brewery. It was incredible so much state of the art equipment. The highlight of the tour was the end where there were samples. As we were the only two on the tour the tour guide loved us, not that she could understand so much, so she over did it a bit with her hospitality. Lots of samples and some every awful fishy snacks, they were some kind of dried sardine treat. Lots more bows and lots more beers, a great tour!

Many of the small blocks around the brewery had rice farms, many no bigger than a suburban block.