Sake Brewery Spots in Kagoshima Area

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Sake Brewery

Kirishima Distillery

4.5

43 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Pref. Kirishimashi Kirishimataguchi 564-1

A shochu distillery established in 1911. The distillery’s flagship Akarui Noson is made the traditional way in earthenware pots with spring water. Other than the first three days of the new year, visitors can view the distillery any day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The distillery tour takes 15 minutes and during the guided tour you can see everything from the actual production area where shochu is being made to the bottle filling area. The distillery’s shop offers samples and sells liqueurs and shochu liquors made on-site. Visitors can also hand draw their own shochu label and create their very own, one of a kind bottle of shochu.

霧島神宮へ向かう途中に見つけて立ち寄りました。販売所のスタッフの方にお願いすると、20分程の見学案内をすぐにして下さいます。思っていた以上に自然の中で丁寧に作られており、是非飲んでみたいと思いました。（名前は知っていたが飲んだことはなかった）また、スタッフの方が皆さん（スタッフ職人さんともに）優しくて丁寧に挨拶をして下さり、ファンになりました。優しい方が丁寧に作るお酒は美味しいに違い...
Hombo Shuzo Yakushima Densho-gura

4.0

4 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 2384

"This shochu distillery with deep roots on Yakushima Island, the ""Alps of the Sea,"" has created handcrafted honkaku shochu in traditional earthenware pots since being founded in 1960. It is the only distillery that makes sweet potato shochu with sweet potatoes grown on Yakushima Island. Visitors can even watch the mashing process if they visit at the right time. The distillery uses 56 irreplaceable earthenware pots passed down since 1887 and the island's extremely soft water, which is listed amongst the Top 100 Famous Waters of Japan, to create shochu with a smooth taste and fine flavor."

Short tour and explanation of production of Shōchū (焼酎) followed by tasting session afterward. Tour is in Japanese so you will require a translator.
Amami Oshima Distillery

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Kagoshima Oshima-gun Tatsugocho Ura 1864-2

"This brewery is located a ten-minute bus ride from Amami Oshima Airport, and a four-minute walk from the Aijuen-mae bus stop. It manufactures and sells brown sugar shochu, which is permitted to be made only on the Amami Islands. Jogo, a shochu made from brown sugar using Amami Oshima's sugarcane and Tatsugo Town's famous water ""Jogo no Tensensui,"" is characterized by its mild and refreshing taste. It has been awarded with the Monde Selection. In addition, there is a shochu tasting corner, and factory tours are held three times a day."
Tomita Shuzojo

5.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Irifunecho 7-ban 8-go

1951年創業の黒糖焼酎の醸造元。奄美群島のみで製造が認められた黒糖焼酎の製造過程見学と試飲。創業以来、甕造りを続けており、芋や麦焼酎の大規模な工場とは異なる昔ながらの蔵の雰囲気が良い。二代目による製造工程と奄美の歴史解説で、1953年の本土復帰や酒税にまつわる時代背景等も知ることができた。その後、産地で風味の異なる黒糖焼酎の試飲も。名瀬の宿泊施設の傍にあり、300軒以上と言われる奄美一の飲食店街...
Satsuma Kinzangura

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Pref. Ichikikushikinoshi Noshita 13665

This refined sake brewery, Kagoshima’s foremost, is located a 10-minute drive from JR Kushikino Station. Utilizing a 120-kilometer-long tunnel dug as part of the Kushikino Mine which once supported the bygone Satsuma Domain, the brewery produces shochu liquors based on recipes predating the Meiji period. Visitors can ride a mine trolley and view the earthenware vessels used for brewing and at the same time experience the vestiges of what was once a prosperous mine. The brewery’s shop sells gifts and souvenirs such as local specialty products and Satsuma Kinzangura brand shochus and refines sakes. Visitors can also relax in the adjoining brewery café.
Musougura

Travel / Tourism

1-1-17 Natsushima, Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture

A facility where you can see and hear up close the processes involved in creating Kagoshima’s famed sweet potato shochu liquor. Here visitors can breathe in the scent of koji wafting from one of the top wood barrel stills in the prefecture, and view the traditional production process involved as the chief brewer and other workers go about tending the great earthenware pots buried in the ground. The adjoining shop sells some 200 varieties of Satsuma (Kagoshima) shochu, including popular and limited run products, plus other products and merchandise offered no place else. Shop to your heart’s content while sampling shochu liquors and umeshu plum liqueurs.
Sasshu Hamadaya Denbee

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Ichikikushikino-shi Minatomachi 4-chome 1-banchi

This brewery and distillery founded in 1868 produces honkaku shochu with a focus on recreations of shochu from the Meiji period. It also produces craft beers, liqueurs, and more. They are most notable for the level of attention paid to the earthenware pots, stills, koji room, and other facilities used to handcraft each of their refined honkaku shochu. One of their notable products is Nanako, an organic and undiluted shochu made with Japan's oldest existing culture of yellow koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae) that recreates the flavors of ancient shochu. Visitors can enjoy touring the brewery's facilities and tasting its products at the attached shop.
Kagoshima Shuzo Kurose-toji Densho-gura

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Akune Sakaemachi 130

"This distillery was founded on a slope overlooking the East China Sea in 1967. It strives every day to make shochu while receiving the blessings of the sea breeze and the wild yeasts that have long made a home in the distillery. Their flagship brand, Satsuma Morohaku, is made in accordance with the shochu making traditions of the Akune region. The use of white koji mold gives this excellent sweet potato honkaku shochu its characteristically smooth taste. Its name comes from a historical anecdote in which Shimazu Mitsuhisa, the second lord of the Satsuma Domain, referred to the local shochu he was presented with while visiting Akune as ""morohaku"" in praise of its excellent flavor. Another popular offering is Yakiimo Kurose, a roasted sweet potato shochu that has captured the hearts of many honkaku shochu fans with its comforting sweetness and the flavor of roasted sweet potatoes."
Kozuma Shuzo

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Minamitanecho Nakanokami 2480

"This distillery is located in Minamitane Town, the closest town in Japan to space. Since it was first established in 1926, the distillery has continued to make shochu with deep roots on Tanegashima beloved by the island's people. Their flagship brand Nansen is a traditional shochu noted for its rich flavor and gentle taste. The shochu, which has a pronounced scent of sweet potato, instantly fills the palate with a mellow flavor. In addition to preserving shochu making traditions, the distillery also engages in numerous new initiatives. One such initiative was the creation of Uchu Kyodai, a sweet potato honkaku shochu that features characters from the manga series ""Space Brothers"" on the bottle. Another initiative was the creation of HAYABUSA2 Tanegashima kara no Tabidachi, which commemorated the launch of the Hayabusa2 asteroid explorer."
Wakashio Shuzo

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Shibushi-shi Shibushicho Anraku 215

"This shochu distiller established in 1968 is comprised of two separate distilleries; Sengokugura, which aims at preserving the traditions and culture of shochu, and Shisangura, which aims to produce ""the ultimate everyday spirit."" The company continues to produce fine shochu that connects people to people. A 60-meter-long tunnel storehouse that provides the stable temperature and humidity needed to carefully age shochu has been built on the grounds. It stores large earthenware pots that contain the equivalent of 10,000 standard 1.8-liter bottles. The Sengokugura distillery offers tours year-round. Visitors can view the tunnel storehouse, the wooden barrel still, and other facilities. It is even possible to watch shochu being made by hand in earthenware pots and a wooden barrel still from September to December."
Oyama Jinhichi Shoten

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Ibusuki-shi Nishikata 4657

"This distillery established in 1875 makes and sells sweet potato honkaku shochu. It continues to craft sweet potato shochu brewed with groundwater of superior quality. Their Jinshichi shochu is made with nothing more than mineral-rich natural groundwater, kurokoji (black koji mold), and freshly-harvested sweet potatoes. It is noted for a savory flavor evocative of roasted sweet potatoes. It has a refreshing sharpness and an enjoyable light sweetness and minute savoriness characteristic of kurokoji. In addition to respecting traditions, the distillery also explores innovative approaches to shochu making. One example of this is their development of ""space shochu"" made with Atsuhime yeast that was flown on NASA's Space Shuttle and cultivated in zero gravity."
Amami Oshima Nishikawa Shochu Distillery

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Kagoshima Oshima-gun Tokunoshimacho Shirai 474-565

"This brewery is located in Shirai, Tokunoshima Town, and is surrounded by abundant water and sugar cane fields in an idyllic countryside area. The main ingredient is pure brown sugar, and their mainstay product is ""Shima no Napoleon"" filled with natural spring water. There are also a variety of other brands such as Mikado, aged over a long period of time, as well as plum wine using brown sugar shochu that is rare even in Japan. The young Touji (master brewer), who has inherited the traditional manufacturing method using natural water that flows against hard bedrock containing coral reefs on Tokunoshima, the island of longevity, and select brown sugar, makes the flavor deeper and easier to drink."
Arimura Shuzo Shochu Distillery

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Oshima-gun Yoroncho Chabana 226-1

"This is the only brewery on Yoron Island that produces Amami brown sugar shochu. It was founded under American military rule in 1947. It draws up groundwater and seawater from Yoron Island and desalinated soft water with a good taste to use for brewing and mixing. The representative brand ""Yusen"" is loved by the locals to the extent that it has also become synonymous with sake from Yoron Island. While mainly 20% ABV, it is also made in 25% and 35% ABV varieties."
Kokubu Shuzo

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Kokubu Kawahara 1750

This Japanese brewery company is located amidst the lush mountains situated along a river valley a 10-minute drive from JR Kokubu Station. The brewery is famous for having created Imo Koji Imo, the world's first sweet potato shochu made exclusively using sweet potatoes, including a sweet potato-based koji malt. The brewery's sweet potato shochus are made with sweet potatoes from Kagoshima and Miyazaki Prefecture, and spring water which wells up from 100 meters underneath the ground of Mt. Kirishima. The brewery's Tsurunashi Genji, a sweet potato shochu notable for its superb, sweet flavor, is also recommended. Note that the company's products are not sold at its brewery.
Hon Bo Brewery Marusu Tsunuki Distillery

5.0

14 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Minamisatsuma Kaseda Tsunuki 6594

蒸留所が見学できる。綺麗な蒸留所だった。日本庭園も良かった。蒸留所限定品が売っていたのは良かった。受付の人も親切だった。
Machida Brewery

4.0

6 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Oshima-gun Tatsugocho Ogachi 3321

千里中央パルの物産展で出店してた焼酎メーカー！たんかん酒購入の時に、お話聞けて気になってたんで訪問しました。予約無しでしたが、工場案内してもらい恐縮です。スタッフさんの説明と案内と物産展の話で楽しく過ごせました。 ※試飲とショッピングも出来ます。豚ジャーキーを購入しました。
Kojika Sake Brewing

5.0

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Pref. Kanoyashi Airachoukanmyou 7312

visit osumiとういうイベントで留学生たちと見学をさせていただきました。初めての蔵元ということで焼酎の作り方を知れて良かったです。大満足でした！
Izumi Brewery

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Izumi-shi Bunkacho 358
Asahi Sake Brewing

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Pref. Oshimagunkikaichou Wan 41-1
Amami Sake shop Rui

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Pref. Oshimaguntokunoshimachou Kametsu 1194

Kagoshima

Kagoshima Kirishima Kitasatsuma Minamisatsuma Osumi Amami / Okinoerabu Island Tanegashima / Yakushima

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Kagoshima Areas

Over 100 active volcanoes across Kagoshima make it one of the Japan's most exciting prefectures. The prefectural capital, Kagoshima city, looks out to one of the prefecture’s most spectacular volcanoes, Sakurajima, an island of its own that can be visited and seen close up or admired from afar, with the promise of breathtaking sunsets complete with frequent puffs of smoke and ash. Down the Satsuma Peninsula, the most southerly part of mainland Japan, waterfalls, sand onsen, and fascinating history await, while Kagoshima's abundance of satsuma imo (sweet potato) provide a wholesome snack as well as one of Japan's favourite drinks - shochu.