Japan Winery Map

Oita5 wineries

What the listings show

Most planted grapes

Counted across the 5 of 5 wineries whose grapes we have confirmed

Open to visitors
2 (1 by reservation)
Tasting available
2 wineries
On-site shop
4 wineries
Earliest founding year
2010 Keidoan (Takakura Grape Farm)

These figures count the winery listings on this site. Every listing carries its own sources and verification date. Anything we could not verify is left out of the count, so the real numbers may be higher. A founding year may refer to the parent company — often a sake brewery — rather than the year winemaking began.

About this region

Winemaking in Oita has grown partly out of a table-grape district. Usa City states that in the Ajimu area a national farmland development project created a grape-growing district in 1966, and that today around 170 growers farm 160 hectares on hills between 120 and 330 m above sea level, harvesting some 1,300 tonnes of grapes a year. Oita Prefecture records that Ajimu Budoushu Koubou began making wine in 1971, opened as a winery in 2001, incorporated its farming arm in 2009, and in fiscal 2023 managed 16.4 hectares of wine grapes. The prefecture explains that while table varieties such as Muscat Bailey A and Delaware dominated at first, dedicated wine varieties like Chardonnay and Merlot later became available locally. The prefecture's official tourism site also lists Kuju Winery in Taketa City, with 6 hectares of vines on the cool Kuju plateau at 850 m.

Climate
Usa City describes the Ajimu grape district as "a landscape wrapped in deep valley fog, with sharp temperature swings between morning and evening," and on another page states that "the Ajimu area has a large day-night temperature difference and comparatively little rainfall for Kyushu, which suits grape growing." By contrast, the prefecture's official tourism site places Kuju Winery in Taketa City on a cool plateau at 850 m — so conditions differ noticeably between the prefecture's growing areas.
Soil
We could not find an official document describing soils across the prefecture. As a related note, Oita Prefecture records that the Ajimu vineyards use pergola training and that subsurface drainage — buried drainage channels — was installed to improve how the ground sheds water.
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