A travel guide to sake and sake breweries in Japan
For people traveling in Japan: find sake breweries you can visit, the sake of each region, and where to buy it on your trip.
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MidorikawaNiigata sake matured with Uonuma’s soft water and snow, entrusted only to authorized retailers
YamasanA brewery in Ueda that once fell dormant has come back with genshu, sake with no water added, made from the rice of local fields
Kawanakajima 幻舞A brewery in Kawanakajima, Nagano, between two rivers, where the daughter of the brewery family took up the role of toji
DaisekkeiA brewery in Azumino, looking out on the Northern Alps, polishing the sake of the everyday table
SuminoeA brewery in Ishinomaki, a town that thrived as a rice port, making sake that lets you taste the differences between sake rices
Breweries
- Uonuma, NiigataMidorikawaNiigata sake matured with Uonuma’s soft water and snow, entrusted only to authorized retailers
- Ueda, NaganoYamasanA brewery in Ueda that once fell dormant has come back with genshu, sake with no water added, made from the rice of local fields
- Nagano, NaganoKawanakajima 幻舞A brewery in Kawanakajima, Nagano, between two rivers, where the daughter of the brewery family took up the role of toji
- Ikeda, NaganoDaisekkeiA brewery in Azumino, looking out on the Northern Alps, polishing the sake of the everyday table
- Ishinomaki, MiyagiSuminoeA brewery in Ishinomaki, a town that thrived as a rice port, making sake that lets you taste the differences between sake rices
Sendai, MiyagiKatsuyamaA brewery that once supplied sake to Sendai’s Date clan, brewing one tank a week at the foot of Izumigatake- Joyo, KyotoJoyoSake from a small brewery in a plum-growing district south of Kyoto, brewed little by little using only Kizu River underground water and sake rice
Sakawa, KochiTsukasabotanA Tosa brewery that has carried on for four hundred years in Sakawa, a mountain town where the water of the Niyodo River wells up
Geisei, KochiTosa ShiragikuA brewery in a small village between the mountains and the Pacific, making sake from Kochi rice
Hadano, KanagawaShirasasa TsuzumiA brewery in a spring-water town at the foot of the Tanzawa mountains, where you go right inside on the tour
Atsugi, KanagawaSakarimasuA brewery that has continued for two hundred years at the foot of the Tanzawa mountains, in the hot-spring village of Nanasawa
Noto, IshikawaChikuhaA brewery in Ushitsu, a port town on the Noto Peninsula, that uses only Noto rice and mountain spring water, and has kept making sake since the earthquake
Prefectures
北海道Hokkaido
青森県Aomori
岩手県Iwate
宮城県Miyagi
秋田県Akita
山形県Yamagata
福島県Fukushima
茨城県Ibaraki
栃木県Tochigi
群馬県Gunma
埼玉県Saitama
千葉県Chiba
東京都Tokyo
神奈川県Kanagawa
新潟県Niigata
富山県Toyama
石川県Ishikawa
福井県Fukui
山梨県Yamanashi
長野県Nagano
岐阜県Gifu
静岡県Shizuoka
愛知県Aichi
三重県Mie
滋賀県Shiga
京都府Kyoto
大阪府Osaka
兵庫県Hyogo
奈良県Nara
和歌山県Wakayama
鳥取県Tottori
島根県Shimane
岡山県Okayama
広島県Hiroshima
山口県Yamaguchi
徳島県Tokushima
香川県Kagawa
愛媛県Ehime
高知県Kochi
福岡県Fukuoka
佐賀県Saga
長崎県Nagasaki
熊本県Kumamoto
大分県Oita
宮崎県Miyazaki
鹿児島県Kagoshima
沖縄県Okinawa
About sake
- Sake termsAmakuchi and KarakuchiSweet and Dry Sake
- Sake termsSparkling Sake
- Sake termsSake Vessels
- Sake termsSake Lees (Sake Kasu)
- Sake termsKanzake and ReishuWarm and Chilled Sake
- Sake termsNigori-zakeCloudy Sake
- Sake termsNamazakeUnpasteurized Sake
- Sake termsSake (Nihonshu)
- Sake termsYamahai
- Sake riceMiyama NishikiSake Rice Born at the Nagano Prefecture Agricultural Experiment Station
- Sake riceOmachiSake Rice Found in Okayama Prefecture at the End of the Edo Period
- Sake riceAkita Sake KomachiLarge-Grained Sake Rice Developed by Akita Prefecture