Episode 3: The Early Transportation of Wine | Japanese Wine

In the late 19th Century, wine was shipped down the Fuefuki River to the Fuji River where it would be transferred on to Shizuoka, and finally on to Tokyo by train. It took more than a full day to make the trip to Tokyo, and the wine bottles had to be handled many times during transfers from boat to boat and then to train. In 1903, the train line made its way through the mountains to Kofu, Yamanashi’s capital city, thus reducing the time it took to transport wine to Tokyo to just 6 or 7 hours!