Umionia―Food & Learning

Umionia bridges the gap between culinary experiences and information technology.

Our goal is to introduce as many people as possible to the world of delightful foods, cuisines, and beverages. We offer specialized services, including sake-focused tour guiding, sake workshops, seminars on sake, and writing about sake and Japanese culinary culture.

Our Projects and Products

Umio on Saké (English) / Saké Concierge Report (Japanese)

A web media consists of sake tasting notes, interviews, and essays. This media aims to help people to enjoy sake and sake culture.

• Umio on Saké
• 日本酒コンシェルジュ通信

Saké Tourism and Saké Tasting Workshops

We offer exclusive private sake tours led by experts in sake and culinary culture, based in Kyoto and the Kansai region, as well as other key sake-producing areas across Japan. Additionally, we regularly host sake tasting events.

Publications by Umionia and its founder Takashi EGUCHI

Umionia’s publications cover sake and its culture, contents business, mainly on the music industry, and technical writing on the web, software development, and marketing.

• The Japanese Saké Bible: Everything You Need to Know About Great Sake - With Tasting Notes and Scores for 100 Top Brands

In this publication, Eguchi contributed the sake review section, featuring over 100 sakes.

• “Japanese Cuisine Evolving in the Brazilian Culinary Culture (ブラジル食文化の中で発展する日本食)”, published in the Bulletin of the Japanese-Brazilian Association (一般財団法人日伯協会『会報ブラジル』), No. 996 (Autumn, 2022).

An essay on sake and Japanese food culture in Brazil. English translation is available in Sake and Japanese Cuisine in the Brazilian Culinary Culture.

The following publications below are written in Japanese. Translations in titles are not official.

“Contents Business in Nutshell”: Took charge of the whole chapter about the music industry and its future regarding social media. (Japanese)

• 最新コンテンツビジネスのすべてがわかる本

“Web Creators Special Issue - Trends on Web Site Production”: Wrote articles on SEO, marketing, and server management. (Japanese)

• web creators特別号　Webサイト制作　最新トレンドの傾向と対策

“Principles on Web Design, new issue”: Wrote articles on SEO, marketing, and server management. (Japanese)

• 新版 プロとして恥ずかしくないWEBデザインの大原則

About the Company

Umionia Limited Founded at: 5th of December, 2001
Founder, Representative: EGUCHI Takashi
Kyoto Office: 128 Fukudaimyōjin-cho, Kamigyō-ku, Kyōto-shi, Kyoto 6028233 https://www.umionia.com