Saijo Sake Matsuri

Become a connoisseur of Japanese sake in two days… or just get smashed.

Nihonshu Sansan Downtown Sake Festival

This sake festival organised by Yagenbori liquor store Yamatoya is one of our favorite events of the year. It is

Saijo Sakagura Art Festival →Connect←

9 day art festival in Saijo’s historic sakagura sake brewing district. Each exhibit is housed in one of 7 sake

Aburiya Hachisuke

October 27, 2016 Kismet Cordova 791 Views 0 Comment sake

There’s nothing quite like barbequing food over glowing charcoal. A relatively young robatayaki (lit. “fireside-cooking”) restaurant in Nakamachi, Hachisuke’s [炙り屋

Dining Japanese Modern Izakaya

Micks

May 14, 2016November 8, 2016 Judith Cotelle 1422 Views 0 Comment English menu, horigotatsu, Open late, sake, Smokers paradise

MICKS is a casual and relaxed izakaya located in Naka-shinchi in the center of the Nagarekawa drinking district. As it’s

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Tashinami Bar Atsukan Sake Tasting

February 3, 2016April 28, 2016 Jade Brischke 983 Views 1 Comment sake

January 19th was not only my birthday, but also a snow day, and what better way to celebrate than attending

Yamatoya Tashinami Bar Sake Tasting

The theme of the first of Yagenbori sake and wine shop Yamato-ya‘s Tashinami tasting event of 2016 is “fresh-pressed shinshu

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Yamato-ya Sake Shop

September 28, 2012January 14, 2016 Paul Walsh 1593 Views 1 Comment sake, wine

What the Oyama family, proprietors of this liquor store at the north end of Yagenbori-dori, don’t know about those most

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