Craft Beer Base Mother Tree

Craft Beer Base Mother Tree is the flagship of Craft Beer Base, an Osaka company founded in June 2014 that brews, sells and teaches about craft beer, and runs several bars around JR Osaka Station. Mother Tree brings everything together in one place: a brewhouse where the company's own beers are made, a restaurant, a bottle shop and a seminar room, in the Oyodo area north-west of Umeda.

The beers have done well in competition. Craft Beer Base has collected 33 awards at the Japan Great Beer Awards and 45 medals in total, including a gold at the European Beer Star in Germany in 2025 for a lavender and chamomile herb beer. In 2026 its southern German-style pilsner, brewed in collaboration with another company, won a silver medal at the World Beer Cup in the United States, in a category of more than 200 entries, one of only a dozen awards for Japanese beers that year. Trying the house beers on draught here, at the source, is the main reason to come.

The bottle shop is just as much of a draw, with around 500 varieties of bottled and canned beer from around the world, so you can drink something local and buy something rare to take back to your hotel. The company also publishes an Osaka Craft Beer Map, a handy guide if you want to explore other taprooms in the city, and runs seminars and events for those who want to learn more about brewing and tasting.

Opening hours are shorter on weekdays, when it opens in the afternoon, and longer at weekends and on public holidays, when it opens at midday, so it works well as an afternoon stop as well as an evening one; check the official website for current times. Prices are moderate for craft beer. It suits beer enthusiasts, friends looking for a relaxed evening, and anyone who prefers a brewpub to a cocktail bar.

The nearest stations are JR Osaka Station, Nakatsu on the Hankyu Kobe and Takarazuka lines, and Fukushima on the JR Osaka Loop Line, each within walking distance. The Umeda Sky Building is close by, so a visit to the observatory at sunset followed by a beer here makes an easy evening plan in the north of the city.