Colorful brewing tanks (Photo: Larry Knipfing)

Inside a Kanagawa Sake Brewery

Sake is Japan's most famous and delicious drink

Larry Knipfing   - 1 min read

The Kanei sake brewing company has been creating wonderful tasting sake for 150 years. Located in Hadano, very near the Tanzawa mountain range, they accept tours between the months of April-October. Starting in November, their entire team becomes busy processing, packaging and shipping their sake just in time for Japan's year-end festivities and beyond. The brewery is not large (but colorful!), and took about 90 minutes to tour. The sake tasting at the end was a lot of fun!

TEL: 0463-88-7521 EMAIL: kaneishuzou@shirasasa.com

Larry Knipfing

Larry Knipfing @larry.knipfing

Born on Long Island, New York in 1958, I have spent the last 30 years of my life living in Japan, and enjoying every minute of it! I especially love photography, and Japan is definitely one of the most beautiful places in the world to photograph! My other love is fiction writing and I have pub...