Sapporo Beer Museum - the only one in Japan, a museum dedicated to brewing, and entrance is free. This is the most popular attraction of the city is also an object of the historical heritage of Hokkaido Prefecture. The owner of the museum - brewer Sapporo Breweries, a leading manufacturer of the drink in Japan.

The museum is located in a brick building of the former sugar factory. The building itself was built in 1890, when Japan's Meiji era began the development of business and industry, including agriculture and agro-processing enterprises. The first brewery was opened in Sapporo in 1876, ten years after it was privatized and created a company Sapporo Beer Company, which in 1903 acquired the building a sugar factory for its production needs.

In 1906, three major Japanese beer producer - Sapporo Beer Company, Japan Beer Brewery Company and Plant Osaka - merged into a brewing company Dai-Nippon Beer Company Ltd, which has become a monopolist in the Japanese beer market until the end of the Second World War, and then divided into two companies - Nippon and Asahi. In 1964, the brewery was called again Nippon Sapporo Breweries.

The building, which now houses a museum of beer, served as a production location until 1965. Two years later it was attached to the third floor, which housed an exhibition about the history of brewing in Sapporo. After the reconstruction in 1987 the building was officially opened beer museum.

In the museum you can trace the history of the beer business, see the layout of the building and promotional materials accompanying the production of beer, beer bottles and tools for its manufacture. And, of course, you can prodegustrirovat different varieties of beer in the beer garden.