Fukushima
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I take the tour of Sakagura (sake brewery) at Aizu-wakamatsu and Inawashiro area. 6 elections of recommended warehouse

The Aizu area where it's blessed with good rice and water and is learned about as a producing center of sake of the number of whole nationalization. Fukushima keeps renewing a record of gold prize winning a prize number most in "the whole country New Sake appreciating and evaluating meeting", and a brewery in Aizu area occupies the more than half. There is also a storehouse where a tour and shopping at a place sold directly can enjoy a brewery much in Aizu-wakamatsu at the inside. Wouldn't you like to enjoy the tour of recommended warehouses at Aizu-wakamatsu and Inawashiro area?

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The clear sake taught for brand-name spring water from Bandai

From the left Daiginjo sakae Shiro (I'll know ray.)", Bandai (When, oh, it's held.) squeezes 5500 yen (720 ml) (720ml) of 2096 yen and SUDACHI SAKE (Sudachi citrus liquor) (720ml) of 1870 yen.
From the left Daiginjo sakae Shiro (I'll know ray.)", Bandai (When, oh, it's held.) squeezes 5500 yen (720 ml) (720ml) of 2096 yen and SUDACHI SAKE (Sudachi citrus liquor) (720ml) of 1870 yen.

The business is started by Aizu-wakamatsu in 1869 (1869), Yoshimizu who suits sake brewing is asked and a factory is moved to the present place in 1989 (1989). The brewery where sake brewing using clear groundwater of Japanese brand-name spring water hundred pieces "Bandai Nishiyama base spring water group" is performed.
Daiginjo of a representative brand "sakae Shiro" is one by which the brewer of sake who wins a gold prize by "the whole country New Sake appreciating and evaluating meeting" (To-ji) is consecration. The fragrance which makes them think of a muskmelon and the mellow and soft taste are the feature. Additionally the pure rice special brew raw unblended malt whisky of warehouse limited sale "Bandai squeeze", the plum liquor of a sake base and the liqueur are also popular.

I enjoy sake through a factory tour and tasting.

Then Shop "YU warehouse" can taste a typical brand.
Then Shop "YU warehouse" can taste a typical brand.

A tour guide with a guide goes at a factory, too, and the day's application is possible by all except for a group. It's possible to see the state of the bottling and label sticking from an aisle on weekdays, and 5 of brew suspended time frame-October is introducing sake brewing focusing on a monitor picture.
After visiting, it's to the Shop in the entrance of the factory "YU warehouse". Liquor can be chosen while tasting a warehouse in the building with a used appearance. The small sake cup with logos of "sakaekawa" and the original products of sake bottle (sake bottle) etc. are also rich, and even if it's presented to a bibulous person, I seem appreciated.

sakaekawa (Ray isn't done.) making alcoholic beverages
  • The addressNakasone plain 6841-11, Sarashina, Bandai-machi, Yama-gun, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Bandaimachi Station, about 8 minutes
  • Business hoursYU warehouse 10:00-16:30
    Tour information time 10:00 with a guide, 11:00, 13:00, 14:00 and 15:00 (required time 20-30 minutes)
  • Days closedYU warehouse Wednesday (in December, Saturday . Sunday and holiday regular holiday)
    A tour The regular holiday-lessness.
  • TEL0242-73-2300
  • ParkingFree

The brewery where the history which keeps maintaining originator Yamahai trained is here

The fragrance (720ml) of 2241 yen and the Kaei warehouse which are Kaei warehouse Yamahai Junmai Sake (720ml) of 2000 yen and a pure rice Daiginjo dream from the left Daiginjo (720ml) of 3600 yen
The fragrance (720ml) of 2241 yen and the Kaei warehouse which are Kaei warehouse Yamahai Junmai Sake (720ml) of 2000 yen and a pure rice Daiginjo dream from the left Daiginjo (720ml) of 3600 yen

Foundation, 1850 (1850). It's "Suehiro sake brewing Kaei warehouse" that an ancestor of 1 of sake processes "Yamahai trained" and called Yoshigi (key) Kinichirou are invited in a Taisho early stage and test brew has been begun. The sake which handed one built with this Yoshigi system Yamahai down from generation to generation "folklore Yamahai pure rice Suehiro" is 1 which can be called the starting point in a storehouse for the sake of a superior brand which wins a gold prize by many domestic and abroad shows. Besides it also has complete set of sake with the concept such as Daiginjo "gensai" and pure rice Daiginjo using brewer's rice made in Fukushima-ken "the smell of the dream (the fragrance)" "the fragrance of the dream" that the Undiluted Sake spangled with appreciating and evaluating meeting in a gold prize was stuffed.

Sake of warehouse limitation and the place sold directly I get are must-see.

Sake of warehouse recommendation can be tasted at a place sold directly.
Sake of warehouse recommendation can be tasted at a place sold directly.

Sake brewing is being performed by traditional handwork by a Kaei storehouse and a warehouse inspection tour by guide Staff/staff member (no charge) is also put into effect. Reservation is unnecessary and you can participate, and if preparing and putting away, a tool of sake brewing can be visited.
When I go to a place sold directly after knowledge of sake brewing is deepened, the pleasure also doubles. Sake and plum liquor including the name of the warehouse limitation equal a tasting section, and the difference between the fragrance and the taste can be chosen carefully while making sure.
The cure spot from which "Sakagura (sake brewery) cafe apricot" in site (today) also hid. The coffee beans put in for a cake with Daiginjo and acquirement water can be tasted at the retrospective space where the oldest Sakagura (sake brewery) was remodeled.

Suehiro (SUEHIRO) sake brewing Kaei warehouse (KAEIGURA)
  • The address12-38, Nisshinmachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 6 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, tour embussment and "Taiwa-cho" getting off for about 1 minute on foot
  • Business hours9:00-17:00 (16:00 in the final plan) and cafe 10:00-17:30
  • Days closedMaking alcoholic beverages 2nd Wednesday December 31 January 1 and cafe Wednesday.
  • TEL0242-27-0002
  • ParkingFree

Tenderhearted sake brewing by an expert brewer of sake and a female brewer of sake is famous.

Pure rice Daiginjo "Aizu lieutenant general tokujousake (720ml)" is boxed from the left, 5500 yen and a name of a brewer of sake, the pure rice Daiginjo which put on a crown "lily (720ml)" is boxed, 2750 yen and pure rice special brew Aizu lieutenant general Perfume (720ml) of 1540 yen of a dream
Pure rice Daiginjo "Aizu lieutenant general tokujousake (720ml)" is boxed from the left, 5500 yen and a name of a brewer of sake, the pure rice Daiginjo which put on a crown "lily (720ml)" is boxed, 2750 yen and pure rice special brew Aizu lieutenant general Perfume (720ml) of 1540 yen of a dream

I establish a blanch family from "eitakaraya" which served as Aizu-han errand president and start the business in 1794 (1794). It's also famous as the storehouse where a brewer of sake also has an unusual mother daughter at the whole country including the expert brewer of sake who won "Yellow Ribbon Medal" in autumn in 2019 (To-ji). The "lily" series of the dry my mother was mellow and made koji (malted rice) including a "Aizu, lieutenant general" series of the effect mouth, and by which my daughter took charge of acquirement an expert brewer of sake causes is particular about traditional handwork and has complete set of the sake I'd like to enjoy as food table wine. Deeply, a local patriotism is also working on sake brewing suitable rice made in Aizu "five million stones" and "the smell of the dream" built with sake with leaven of Fukushima prefecture .

It'll be tasted happily while asking maker's expectation.

It'll be always possible to taste sake at a place sold directly.
It'll be always possible to taste sake at a place sold directly.

The one by which a wooden building facing Nanokamachi street in Aizu-wakamatsu was built for the Taisho last years. The inside is at direct sales, and it can be tasted from basic liquor to seasonal limitation liquor in the store. The storehouse where it's also small that liquor can be chosen while asking the explanation of a brewer of sake when I'm lucky, well. The temperature area around drinking tastes used rice and leaven in each goods, and is indicated, and affection is felt by 1 and 1.
It's recommended to make the consultation rather early because a tour of Sakagura (sake brewery) is a preliminary reservation system, and on season can't often correspond.

tsurunokou making alcoholic beverages
  • The address2-46, Nanokamachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Nanukamachi Station, about 5 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-18:00※ Kurami Manabu needs reservation.
  • Days closedJanuary 1
  • TEL0242-27-0139
  • ParkingFree (2).

The popular storehouses full of sake of a superior brand it's domestic and abroad and where it's highly regarded

ya where Junmai Ginjo Sake is good from the left (good Japanese syllabary and 1,800ml) 3300 yen and Junmai Sake Month bow (GE sudden 1,800ml) of 2530 yen and Junmai Ginjo Sake Month bow Kaori (1,800ml) Mt. Nakura who made 2640 yen for appreciating and evaluating meeting exhibition, Daiginjo (1,800ml) of 5500 yen
ya where Junmai Ginjo Sake is good from the left (good Japanese syllabary and 1,800ml) 3300 yen and Junmai Sake Month bow (GE sudden 1,800ml) of 2530 yen and Junmai Ginjo Sake Month bow Kaori (1,800ml) Mt. Nakura who made 2640 yen for appreciating and evaluating meeting exhibition, Daiginjo (1,800ml) of 5500 yen

The business is started in 1918 (1918). Close sake brewing aiming at "the beautiful sweetness" is standard, and it's a brewery of the force party which wins a continuous gold prize for 11 years by "the whole country New Sake appreciating and evaluating meeting" until 2019.
It can also be said a face of a warehouse, "Mt. Nakura, Daiginjo" is the best raw material and the sake made with work and the condition, and Gomi of sweetness, the salty taste, the sour taste, bitterness and the charm is proud of a fruity lip of the cup harmonized. Fukushima's brewer's rice "the smell of the dream (the fragrance)" and Junmai Sake using Fukushima prefecture development leaven "month bow" combine plumpness with gorgeousness, and are 1 which can sense the beautiful sweetness.

A valuable acquirement storehouse is opened by a Sakagura (sake brewery) tour.

Acquirement warehouse an opening tank equals
Acquirement warehouse an opening tank equals

I'm sorting a warehouse from gold prize winning a prize liquor and sake below Special Brewed Sake, am doing acquirement and am getting the charm by temperature control carried without exception. It's also an attraction year-round is visiting a warehouse by a reservation system, and that a storage tank can be seen imminently. There is also an appearance inside the warehouse built for Meiji Period.
Mt. Nakura, prefecture shipment accounts for 80 percent, so goods of sake brewing recommend to buy it at the site. The sake of a superior brand winning a prize reki is by a domestic and abroad show is even, so it's also most suitable for a gift for a way of a Japanese drinker.

Mt. Nakura, sake brewing
  • The address2-46, Sengokumachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 8 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, embussment and "Sengoku, center" getting off for about 4 minutes on foot
  • Business hours9:00-17:00 (Kurami Manabu needs reservation.)
  • Days closedSaturday . Sunday and holiday
  • TEL0242-22-0844
  • ParkingFree

I have a new appreciation from layout of the liquor quality and create the sake of a superior brand in common use in the world.

"Aizu Miyaizumi" and "sharaku (make, easiness)" which are a main force brand from the right
"Aizu Miyaizumi" and "sharaku (make, easiness)" which are a main force brand from the right

The business is started in front of the "crane KE castle" in Aizuwakamatsu-shi (in 1955) in 1955. Though it's a young warehouse relatively, it takes pride in popularity in a national constituency. It's 2003 when a present 4 generations of eye brewery has returned home that big turning point came for this storehouse. When I leave a place of work as a system engineer and return to a warehouse as 4 generation eye, reconsideration of a sake brewing process is advanced and sake brewing equipment is changed. After I kept pursuing technology, best in the world performed in 2014 was 2 classes of the Junmai Sake and the pure rice special brew of the contest which decides good over-the-counter liquor "SAKE COMPETITION", and "sharaku" got about 1 and was bathed in leap spotlight nationwide.
"Aizu Miyaizumi" to which it's shipped with Maine in the Fukushima also gets a grand prize by various shows including the new brand 4 generations of eye started for the whole country "Sharaku".

The sake brewing which doesn't permit compromise using good water and rice is carried without exception.

It's also highly regarded in health management in the warehouse as well as the quality.
It's also highly regarded in health management in the warehouse as well as the quality.

I produce home-grown making alcoholic beverages suitable America of "five million stones" and "the smell of the dream" etc. at a contract farmhouse and the rice paddy which is being grown jointly. Making alcoholic beverages suitable rice "the liquor future", "Ushu reputation" and "Akaiwa Omachi rice" "Tojo Yamada Nishiki rice" of toku class A in the whole country in addition to home-grown rice "Yoshikawa Yamada Nishiki rice" are also using a little rice of handling nationwide and are always working on sake brewing aiming at improvement of the liquor quality. During often also storing room temperature by a large-sized tank at a general wine cellar about storage, then for "Miyaizumi brew" to stop antioxidation by air and room temperature degradation, a tankage isn't performed and refrigeration storage by the whole quantity bottling is carried without exception.
The tour of a factory is bad, but there is an impression only by the outward appearance of the warehouse made with plaster and wood.

Miyaizumi famous distillery (MI and Izumi niece quire)
  • The address8-7, Higashisakaemachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 7 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, tour embussment and "Kitaide Marudai street" getting off for about 1 minute on foot
  • Business hours9:00-16:30 (It's impossible to visit.)
  • Days closedSaturday . Sunday and holiday ※ Shop is open everyday.
  • TEL0242-27-0031
  • ParkingFree

The long-established store loved for powerful sake of Undiluted Sake filtration-lessly

From the left, Inagawa Daiginjo (1,800ml) of 6600 yen and pure rice special brew nothingness filtration Undiluted Sake Shichijuurou (SHICHIJUU ROU) Red label (1,800ml) of 3247 yen and Junmai Sake "one hundred and fifteen (1,800ml of beasts)", 2648 yen.
From the left, Inagawa Daiginjo (1,800ml) of 6600 yen and pure rice special brew nothingness filtration Undiluted Sake Shichijuurou (SHICHIJUU ROU) Red label (1,800ml) of 3247 yen and Junmai Sake "one hundred and fifteen (1,800ml of beasts)", 2648 yen.

The brewery where the sake brewing which started the business by Inawashiro-machi in 1848 (the Kaei first year) and stuck to Undiluted Sake filtration-lessly is performed. The name by which "Shichijuurou" of sign goods has the history by which a head of a family succeeds to generation after generation, it's pure rice for the sake which put on a crown, a series specialized in filtration-lessness is being developed.
Because route 115 of national highway was passing by the rice paddy where rice is being fed on the gem a brewer of sake (To-ji) handled from cultivation of brewer's rice, "one hundred and fifteen" of the striking name was named.
The "Inakawa Daiginjo" which wins a gold prize many times by "the whole country New Sake appreciating and evaluating meeting" is also a brand with a lot of fans.

Inawashiro, as the only brewery, local circulation, importantly.

Small brewery of area close adherence. Sake lees in addition to sake are also sold.
Small brewery of area close adherence. Sake lees in addition to sake are also sold.

The America where "Inakawa" with the name is the life of the sake, subsoil water of "rice" and Bandai-san (It's BA N, Isa, oh.) is named as "river". Staff/staff member all the members make the sake brewing by which Inawashiro-machi and its circumference were hailed from and also stuck to rice and water in localness important including a brewer of sake. There were 5 or 6 breweries in Inawashiro-machi formerly, in now, only 1 "Inakawa sake brewing store". A storehouse isn't being opened, but it's possible to buy liquor at an office and an emporium. Almost anything across which a brand doesn't come out the prefecture for local circulation and the pleasure tasted much are much more.

Inakawa making alcoholic beverages store
  • The address4916, Aramachi, Inawashiro-machi, Yama-gun, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Inawashiro Station, about 7 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Inawashiro Station, embussment and "bus terminal" getting off for about 2 minutes on foot
  • Business hours8:30-17:00
  • Days closedThe regular holiday-lessness
  • TEL0242-62-2001
  • ParkingFree (2).

After enjoying sightseeing, how about some time of the relaxation by a resort hotel in which the base in Bandai-san is located? It's possible to feel history in Aizu and culture in the stay in the hotel.

The inn where you can enjoy Aizu culture fully and have time actively at any time of the year around

"Aizu, it's modern." the guest room made a concept
"Aizu, it's modern." the guest room made a concept

"Bandaisan Onsen Hotel by Hoshino Resorts" where "Bandai-san" where Japan one hundred famous mountain is one is located in the place where I dominate immediateness and wish for the "Inawashiro lake" brilliant like Kagami under the eyes. You can enjoy the stay which has complete set of heated pool, spa and hot spring and touches the Aizu culture which isn't learned about. You can burn with colored leaves from fresh green and have time actively until the season wrapped in Miyuki. Please enjoy a high plain resort stay in the grand nature and the change in four seasons.

Bandaisan Onsen Hotel by Hoshino Resorts
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