Sakai Meijo Sake Brewery

Registered National Tangible Cultural Property

Sakai Meijo Sake Brewery

Registered National Tangible
Cultural Property

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Modern Attractions

Sake brewery established in 1760 in Shimo-Togura Juku, a post town on the old Hokkoku Road.
The brewery features a massive thatched roof building that today is the soba restaurant Kaya.
A devotee of the haiku master Basho, Shirao Kaya, was also a devotee of the brewery’s sake and one room is museum dedicated to him as well as the artist Yumeji Takehisa.
The sake making facilities can also be toured.
(Location: Togura)