Editor-made guides to Japan's great sake districts — Nada, Saijo, Fushimi, Niigata, Aizu, Hida Takayama, Kanazawa, Shinshu, Nara, Hokkaido and Tokyo. Model courses, visitable breweries and access.
Where Mt. Rokko's famed miyamizu water meets the sea — a coastline of brewery museums, one train stop apart.
Red-brick chimneys crowd the skyline of Japan's 'sake capital' — four historic breweries within a five-minute walk of JR Saijo Station.
Willows, canals and white-walled kura — home of Gekkeikan and Kizakura, and of Fushimi's famously soft 'feminine' sake.
Japan's most brewery-dense prefecture — home of Hakkaisan's Uonuma no Sato and Kubota's Asahi Shuzo, one Shinkansen ride from Tokyo.
Yes, Tokyo brews sake — three working kura reachable by train alone, from Sawanoi's river gorge to a beer-brewing sake estate.
From the castle town of Aizu-Wakamatsu to the storehouse streets of Kitakata — a snow-fed basin where sake runs deep, one tasting counter at a time.
From Sapporo's sake museum to canal-side Otaru and brewing hub Asahikawa — a rail-linked trail across snow country.
From Matsumoto's castle town to Lake Suwa and the temple gates of Zenkoji — breweries raised on Japan Alps spring water.
From teahouse-district Kanazawa to the Kaga onsen towns — the breweries behind Ishikawa's celebrated food culture, with a thought for Noto.
Takayama's preserved streets and white-walled Furukawa — mountain towns where breweries stand a stroll apart.
Kikizake in Naramachi, the sake deity of Miwa, brewery tours in Katsuragi — walking the homeland of Japanese sake.
From a brewery-pub in central Fukuoka to a heritage kura on the Genkai coast and the sake belt of the Chikugo plain — Fukuoka beyond ramen and yatai.