While a modern Japanese wedding has a lot in common with its Western ... participate in the san-san-kudo or sake sharing ritual. They take turns raising to their lips three sake cups of different ...

Make your first stop at the Saka Shrine, which enshrines Kusunokami, the god of sake brewing, and is said to be the origin of the word “sake.” In fall, you’ll find local toji (master brewers ...

But “traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with ‘koji’ mold in Japan” is now registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. And the age-old technique has produced ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Gozenshu Brewery is one of the few in Japan using bodaimoto, a 600-year-old fermentation method, to make sake. They use it to make junmai, or pure rice sake ...