Foreign tourists now can buy sake and other alcoholic beverages tax-free at breweries and distilleries in Japan.
Foreign tourists now can buy sake and other alcoholic beverages tax-free at breweries and distilleries in Japan.
Launched on Sunday, the tax-free program is expected to give a further boost to already brisk exports of sake and make tours to breweries, wineries and distillers more popular among visitors to the country, industry people said. Under the program, if a foreign tourist buys a 720-milliliter “seishu” sake bottle at a shop on the premises of a government-designated brewery where the sake was produced, the 86.
