Bar
Bar
Sake bar directly owned by Kikkawa Jozo
Kikkawa Jozo, a long-established brewery in Isehara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, was founded in 1914. You can be one of the first to taste new sake directly shipped to Ishigaki. Sake made using the "no rice scraping" method, sake comparison, wine yeast, flower yeast, and other varieties of sake are also available. All varieties of the "Ameuri/Afuri" series are available for purchase.
About
Kikkawa Jozo
Kikkawa Jozo, a long-established sake brewery founded in 1917. The brewery has been located in Goudo, Isehara City for more than 100 years. All sake produced here, from rice washing to brewing water, is made with high-quality hard water pumped from the strata of Mount Daisen in Tanzawa. Tanzawa Daisen has been known since ancient times as a place of worship for rain, and is also called Afuriyama.
Our Craftmanship
Kikkawa Jozo's sake brewing
Highly acclaimed overseas and numerous awards. A passion for creating sake that is in tune with the times. Because of our honest approach to sake brewing, we continue to take on further challenges beyond our history as a long-established sake brewery. Creating the future of sake, such as "sake without grinding" with a rice polishing ratio of 90%, flower yeast, and wine yeast, is what "Yoshikawa Brewing's Sake Brewing" is all about.
Our Brand
Afuri
Kikkawa Jozo's afuri series. This new brand was created by using underground water from Mount Tanzawa Oyama as brewing water. The brewery uses hard water with a hardness of 150-160, which is rare in Japan, and continues to take on various challenges, such as a "no grinding" method for the rice used as the raw material, low-pulverization brewing, and low alcohol content.
Yaeyama Awamori
We offer 6 types of Awamori produced in Ishigaki Island. You can also enjoy Orion beer and non-alcoholic drinks.
Snacks that go well with Japanese sake
Starting with the appetizer "Ishigaki no Shio", there are three types of sake and a dip of fresh island vegetables. There is also a jet black squid ink muffin that goes well with sake. “Rice noodles” is also popular.
Cafe
We serve coffee, latte and soft drinks. Handmade sweets using sake lees and bread proposed by the brewery are also on sale.
From the 7th Toji
"Kikkawa Jozo" is a sake brewery in Kanagawa Prefecture founded in the first year of the Taisho era. We have been making sake that is loved by the locals.
Since 2019, we have a new goal of "wanting people all over the world to know the wonderfulness and depth of sake", and have reviewed the quality of sake, which has never been seen before. I started making sake.
Speaking of Ishigaki Island, it is a land famous for its wonderful Awamori history and culture. Therefore, we also wanted to incorporate the goodness of Awamori into Japanese sake as much as possible. As a sake brewer, I am very much looking forward to seeing what kind of marriage the climate and cuisine of Ishigaki Island and our sake will create. "
