Okamoto Kichinojyo Inc.｜japanese sake/japanese rice wineABOUT | Okamoto Kichinojyo Inc.｜japanese sake/japanese rice wine

This company was established in 1902, Meiji Era. The name of first sake was called SAWANOI from the name of a place. Later we inherited “IPONGI”which was the order sake of a well known brand in Katsuyamahan. We have been making it sticking to the sharpest after sake for harmony with food, and pursue “without an odd taste but with a transparent feeling overflowing beautiful tasting” which is a principal object of Southern part of sake making style.

Our warehouse opened a business in the village of KOSHINOMURA in 1909.After the war we moved to the north of Fukui plain.We brewed the Fukui local brand beer “DIOS” in 1998.We also opened Italian “Bel Paese” next to the beer brewery. We brew in this creed “First of all the raw material rice is examined” told from generation to generation.We want to send the sake culture of Fukui. And, I want to hand it down in future ages.

The founder, HICHIUEMON, opened a business as a purveyor who handled the hardware in 1733. Afterwards, it changed into the brewery in 1902, and 100 years passed. Recently our Sake brewery buildings are registered as cultural assets in 2001,We have been making SAKE by traditional homemade skill with using “NINON-NO-MEISUI” for brewing water and “GOHYAKUMANGOKU” for brewing rice

There is a warehouse from center Fukui city of plains on the way of the highway toward Temple Eihei. KUZURYU river where the source is originated in Hakusan flows. We have brewed sake since Meiji era.We are doing the effort to brew the good sakethat we can consent by good rice that is appropriate for the sake making to the great care, and using beautiful water. We blieve if the good one is made, our warehouse is not defeated at a big warehouse though it is small.

We have ancestors who were cotton merchants for Fukui MATSUDAIRA government in 1621.Later they became official exchanges, then they started to run a sake brewery in 1804.We want to sell “TOKOYAMA” at the sake shop with a special care. We are aiming to brew sake that the dish is suitable for compatibility, and also come to want to drink after it drinks.

Our company was established in Nyugun in 1840. Now we have our brewery in Momozonocho. Until 1976

Our company was established in 1743.We have served to the gastronomic culture and the life culture of everybody through the brewing of sake. Here, NadaArea, have good quality water, and have the weather condition that is appropriate for the sake brewing such as the cold of the severe winter. We have the sake brewer who has the capable technology. We have prospered as sake docoro of the greatest in the whole country.

GEKEIKAN has been making and sake ever since our foundation in 1637 in Fushimi, a district of Japan’s former capital of Kyoto. Adopting the corporate concept of “Aiming for health, researching and developing sake, and creating refreshment” we at GEKEIKAN are committed to the continued creation and supply of products and services.

This brewery (kura) is located in the eastern part of the city of Fukui. Situated to the north of the brewery, the sacred mountain Hakusan is the source of the Kuzuryu River, and Fukui is blessed by the crystal clear subsoil flow of high-quality water that the river provides. The brewery is in a rural district featuring clean air and many historic sites, such as the remains of a Muromachi period (1333-1568) castle (Fujishima Castle) located on the grounds of Nishichoushou-ji temple in the nearby district of Higashifujishima-cho.
Established around 1866, the brewery's current head is the fourth generation to take the professional name 舟木三右衛門(Funaki Sanuemon). In addition to begin the first person to brew ginjo sake in Fukui Prefecture, he also continues to be enthusiastically involved in researching kura technology and equipment.
Following a "quality first" motto from the beginning, for its water the brewery extracts subsoil water of the Kuzuryu River from a depth of 150 meters, and for its rice it uses varieties that are considered best for sake brewing (such as Gohyakumangoku) and that are gown on the fertile farm lands of the Fukui plain. The result is the brewery's primary products: junmai ginjo sake with the umami of rice and excellent smoothness.
The distinctive features of this brewery's sake are its refreshing taste and mellow feel in the mouth. These are easy-to-drink sake varieties that go well with many foods ,particularly side dishes of fish and shellfish.