Sake since 1935 in Higashimurayama: a Saturday guided tour, two hours, 1,000 yen.
The brewery produces the ‘Kinkon’ (金婚) label, also sold as offering sake at the Kanda Myōjin shrine and at Meiji Jingū, according to press sources. The direct-sales shop is open every weekday; every Saturday a guided tour of about two hours, with no booking needed, shows the production process. The guided tour is in Japanese only.
The company traces its origins to a sake shop opened in Kanda (Edo) in 1596, but that was a retail business, not yet a brewery: the current production site, in Higashimurayama, dates from 1935 (Shōwa period), according to the official website. The label ‘oldest sake brewery in Tokyo’, which circulates online, comes from a single 2020 TripAdvisor review: the official website states 1935 for the current site, Wikipedia gives 1596 for the Kanda shop, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government writes ‘380 years’: three conflicting numbers, none of them an official designation. The verified and stable fact remains the founding of the current site in 1935.
ℹ️ Direct sales: weekdays 9:00–17:00, Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays 13:00–17:00. Guided tour every Saturday 11:00–13:00 (about 120 minutes), 1,000 yen, no booking needed, in Japanese only.
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