Wakura Shuzo (和蔵酒造株式会社)
Wakura Shuzo is a brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, making sake at its Takeoka site. Its Teigen site is a distillery for shochu and liqueurs. It was founded in 1874.
What kind of brewery is Wakura Shuzo?
A house that brewed Kanozan in Sadamoto, Kimitsu, since the Edo period, and the Ikeda brewery that brewed Seisen in Takeoka, Futtsu, from 1874, merged their operations in March 2006 to form Wakura Shuzo. The company moved from a toji-led system to one run by its own staff.
- Water
- Seisen is named for the spring-like well water drawn from a deep Kazusa-bori well and used for brewing at the Takeoka brewery.
- Ingredients
- One sake is a undiluted junmai ginjo made from Chiba-grown sake rice Sono-no-mai, at 13% alcohol.
- Yeast
- APPLE PRINCESS is a junmai sake made with a malic-acid-rich yeast, giving a fresh sourness.
- Style
- The Teigen site makes shochu with black koji and the secondary-brewing method, a traditional approach suited to a dedicated shochu distillery.
- Other
- The Teigen site makes sweet potato shochu under the Chiba-made, Chiba-drunk concept.
Can you visit Wakura Shuzo?
- Tours
Visits to the Teigen site are booked by phone or form, and the site is closed on Thursdays, Sundays and holidays. Group visits to Teigen ended on 31 March 2026. Visits to the Takeoka site are arranged by phone.
- Shop
The shop Shusai-kan is in Kimitsu and is open 9:00 to 17:00 every day of the year, with tasting of seasonal sake and shochu.
Hours and booking rules change, so check before you go. Official website
Compiled with AI from public pages, mainly the brewery’s own site (not yet checked by the brewery)Sources: wakura-sake.jp