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A local guide to Kobe City for foreigners, tourists, and visitors from around the world.
Ponshukan is a sake museum and tasting experience located at multiple train stations in Niigata Prefecture.
Koten Shuzo was founded in Okaya, Nagano, in 1871 by Takahashi Mikinosuke. The brewery is now run by Takahashi Mie, one of only 33 female toji across Japan.
Giulia, also known as Jiji, is a passionate sake enthusiast who moved to Japan in 2015.
The JREF Sake Portal introduces sake from well-known and not-so-well-known Japanese breweries.
Established in Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo in 2011, Tokyo Port Brewing represents a pioneering spirit in the sake industry.
Established in 1711 in Tamura, Fukushima, Niida Honke is deeply rooted in sustainable practices.
Kamikawa Taisetsu Sake Brewery, located in Kamikawa-cho, Hokkaido, was established in 2017.
Founded in 2022, the Japan Craft Sake Breweries Association (クラフトサケブリュワリー協会) defines "craft sake" as a new genre of sake on sake using sake brewing techniques and rice as an ingredient. It incorporates processes not legally allowed for traditional sake. For example, "doburoku" is one type of...
Aomori, meaning “blue forest” in Japanese, is a prefecture in the northernmost part of mainland Japan (Honshu). It is surrounded by untouched nature and vast rice fields. Rice grown in rich soil and spring water from the Blue Ridge Mountains gives sake from Aomori a unique taste and flavour...
Noguchi Shuzōten in Fuchu, Tōkyō, has resumed sake production this spring after a 40-year hiatus. The brewery originally ceased brewing as the area became more urbanized, affecting the quality of water. The current seventh-generation owner revived onsite production with the help of a local...
Sake brewery based in Asago. Under the philosophy that even a grain of rice has unlimited power, Tajime aims for co-existence and co-prosperity with the local Tajima community, using local rice and water while maintaining the traditions that have been handed down since the Genroku era.
An unofficial guide to Yamaguchi Prefecture and its nihonshu by Jim Rion.
The official portal site for "Hokkaido Sake", operated by the Hokkaido Sake and Shochu Makers Association (北海道酒造組合).
The official website of the Niigata Sake Brewers Association introduces sake breweries in Niigata Prefecture, events, information on sake, and efforts of sake brewers associations.
Located in Suzaka, Nagano Prefecture, the brewery was founded in 1864 for the local Suzaka clan and began to supply sake to the clan's head. Since then, from the second to the fifth generation, we have inherited the intention of the first brewer, Endo Tok
Kamotsuru Sake Brewery is located in Saijō, Higashihiroshima. Originally a soy sauce manufacturer, the business was later converted into a sake brewery. In 1873, Kimura Wahei (木村和平) named the brewery Kamotsuru (賀茂鶴). Kamo is the place name and another wor
The word "Taikan" (太冠) was used by military officers when celebrating their success. The name was given for the sake to mark festive occasions. Taikan Brewery was founded in 1877 and is located in the Southern Alps, a pristine and clean environment. It is
