Fujisaki Sobe Shoten (株式会社藤﨑摠兵衛商店)
Fujisaki Sobe Shoten is a brewery. Nagatoro-gura, run by Fujisaki Sobe Shoten in Nagatoro, Saitama, is a sake brewery that makes sake from Saitama-grown rice and local spring water.
What kind of brewery is Fujisaki Sobe Shoten?
The founder, Fujisaki Sobe Mitsushige, came from Hino in Omi Province, born into a family of Hino merchants. Hino was known for making and selling refined sake, and its merchants expanded into the Kanto region. The first Sobe established Fujisaki Sobe Shoten under the shop name Juichiya in the Kyoho 13 era, brewing and peddling while spreading sake culture mainly along the Nakasendo road.
- Ingredients
- Only Saitama-grown sake rice, such as Sake Musashi, is used.
- Water
- The brewing water is spring water from the Fufu area of Nagatoro.
- Other
- The brewery workers are all from Saitama.
Can you visit Fujisaki Sobe Shoten?
- Tours
The brewery offers brewery tours and shopping at the brewery. Times and fees are not stated on the pages.
- ShopOffered
Hours and booking rules change, so check before you go. Official website
Other brewery tours in Saitama
Compiled with AI from public pages, mainly the brewery’s own site (not yet checked by the brewery)Sources: nagatorogura.co.jp
Japan Sake Awards
A prize-winner in 2 of the 9 contests from brewing year 2017 to 2025.
Source: the prize lists of the Japan Sake Awards (National Research Institute of Brewing and Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association).