SAKE MAP
Kanto / Types: Sake
Six drinks from Tokyo, each with a snack that suits it and a short story behind the bottle.
Sawanoi
A leading Tokyo brewery with over three centuries of history along the Okutama gorge. Contrary to the city image, its poised taste is brewed with abundant natural spring water. Its garden, where you can sip while gazing at the clear stream, is popular. It surprises you: Tokyo, too, has sake this pure.
Pairs with：Edomae sushi / Fukagawa-meshi (clam rice bowl)
Kasen
A long-established Fussa brewery said to be named in joy that "good water sprang forth." Brewed with Tama spring water, its character is a mellow, gentle taste. It's a bottle that carries on the water's blessing since the Edo era. Nothing flashy, but a taste that reassures the more you drink.
Pairs with：Tsukudani (savory simmered morsels) / Fukagawa-meshi (clam rice bowl)
Okunokami
A popular label read "Okunokami," brewed by Toshimaya Shuzo in Higashimurayama. With a fresh, juicy taste, it has sharply grown its fanbase in recent years. Its plain, warm name "guardian of the house" is memorable, too. A Tokyo talent worth venturing a little out from the center to meet.
Pairs with：Edomae anago (conger eel) / Tsukudani (savory simmered morsels)
Tamajiman
A bottle from Fussa's Ishikawa Shuzo, named plainly "the pride of Tama." Known for its stately Meiji-era brick brewery, it also makes beer on the grounds, a generous range. Its taste lets you feel the umami of rice, satisfying and full. You'll want to savor it, story of the historic brewery and all.
Pairs with：Fukagawa-meshi (clam rice bowl) / Dojo (simmered loach)
Edokaijo
A rare urbanite bottle brewed, remarkably, inside a building in central Minato City. Named after the historic "surrender of Edo Castle," it's brewed near that very stage, a stylish touch. Its charm is a careful, modern taste unique to small-batch brewing. The story of a sake born in the heart of Tokyo is irresistible.
Pairs with：Edomae sushi / Tsukudani (savory simmered morsels)
Kuwanomiyako
A bottle mirroring Hachioji's history of silk and sericulture in the elegant name "capital of mulberry." Brewed with Tama water, its character is a crisp, poised taste. It's also Hachioji's sole remaining maker, long by the local side. A sake that quietly carries the town's memory into today.
Pairs with：Edomae anago (conger eel) / Fukagawa-meshi (clam rice bowl)