The Sake AnatomyBrewery Directory

Every Sake Brewery in JapanA bare-facts directory of name, location and representative brand for every licensed sake brewery in Japan — all 47 prefectures.

The Sake Brand Index profiles 148 breweries in depth — story, food pairings, bottle-by-bottle tasting notes. This directory is broader but shallower: every licensed kura we can find, with just the facts — name, location, representative brand. Rows shaded amber already have a full profile (and sometimes a deeper story) in the Brand Index; follow the links to read more. It is being built region by region and currently covers Hokkaido, the six Tohoku prefectures, the Hokuriku and Koshinetsu regions, and the seven Kanto prefectures (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo and Kanagawa), and the four Tokai prefectures (Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi and Mie), and the Kinki region (Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara and Wakayama), and the Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu regions plus Okinawa (Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima and Okinawa) — completing coverage of all 47 prefectures.

Sourcing: every row below is drawn directly from the official brewery directory maintained by the Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association (japansake.or.jp/sakagura/jp/), the industry body that lists all of its member breweries by prefecture. We show only name, location and representative brand here — no editorial claims of our own. Where a brewery already has a full profile (or a terroir story) elsewhere on this site, we link to it. Spotted an error in a listing? The linked source page is the place to double-check it.
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All 47 prefectures: Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita, Yamagata, Fukushima, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Gifu, Shizuoka, Aichi, Mie, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Nara, Wakayama, Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tokushima, Kagawa, Ehime, Kochi, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki, Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, Kagoshima, Okinawa (1591 breweries, 140 of which already have a full profile in the Brand Index). All 47 prefectures are now covered — more will be added in future updates.