Yamaki Soy Sauce

This longstanding soy sauce shop has been in business for over a century and is situated along the Nakasendo Highway in Maibara City's Samegai. The famous Isame no Shimizu spring, selected for inclusion in a list of the 100 Exquisite and Well-Conserved Waters in Heisei Era, can be found here, and the shop continues to make the same rich and flavorful soy sauce using this spring water as it did when it first opened its doors. The shop's summer-only soy sauce soft-serve ice cream is covered with a special soy sauce-based sweet syrup made just for this ice cream. The aromatic soy sauce syrup and cold ice cream go surprisingly well together, resulting in an exquisitely delicious Japanese-style treat.