Factory / Workshop Spots in Kirishima Area

  • Kirishima Distillery
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    Kagoshima Pref. Kirishimashi Kirishimataguchi 564-1
    A shochu distillery established in 1911. The distillery’s flagship Akarui Noson is made the traditional way in earthenware pots with spring water. Other than the first three days of the new year, visitors can view the distillery any day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The distillery tour takes 15 minutes and during the guided tour you can see everything from the actual production area where shochu is being made to the bottle filling area. The distillery’s shop offers samples and sells liqueurs and shochu liquors made on-site. Visitors can also hand draw their own shochu label and create their very own, one of a kind bottle of shochu.

    霧島神宮へ向かう途中に見つけて立ち寄りました。 販売所のスタッフの方にお願いすると、20分程の見学案内をすぐにして下さいます。 思っていた以上に自然の中で丁寧に作られており、是非飲んでみたいと思いました。 (名前は知っていたが飲んだことはなかった) また、スタッフの方が皆さん(スタッフ職人さんともに)優しくて丁寧に挨拶をして下さり、ファンになりました。 優しい方が丁寧に作るお酒は美味しいに違い...

  • Kokubu Shuzo
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    Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Kokubu Kawahara 1750
    This Japanese brewery company is located amidst the lush mountains situated along a river valley a 10-minute drive from JR Kokubu Station. The brewery is famous for having created Imo Koji Imo, the world's first sweet potato shochu made exclusively using sweet potatoes, including a sweet potato-based koji malt. The brewery's sweet potato shochus are made with sweet potatoes from Kagoshima and Miyazaki Prefecture, and spring water which wells up from 100 meters underneath the ground of Mt. Kirishima. The brewery's Tsurunashi Genji, a sweet potato shochu notable for its superb, sweet flavor, is also recommended. Note that the company's products are not sold at its brewery.
  • ART DESHIMARU
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    Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Hayatocho Obama 1817-1
  • Nomotokitoseikatubunka Museum Minamikazejinkan
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    Kagoshima Pref. Kirishimashi Hayatochouoda 630
  • Kurenaigama
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    Kagoshima Pref. Airashi Ikejimamachi 5-13
  • Date Brewing
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    Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Fukuyamacho Fukuyama 3621-1
  • Chomei Helsin Sujozo
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    Kagoshima Pref. Kirishimashi Hayatochounokumida 670-2
  • Hayasegama
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    Kagoshima Pref. Kirishimashi Hayatochouchiyamada 1-chome 11-6
  • Fukuyama Su Brewing
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    Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Fukuyamacho Fukuyama 3559
  • Ryumojishokigyokumiai
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    Kagoshima Pref. Airashi Kajikichoukoyamada 5940
  • Okuchi Brewery
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    Kagoshima Isa-shi Okuchi Harada 643
  • Kirishima Kogen Beer
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    Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Mizonobemachi Fumoto 876-15
  • Satsuma Beer
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    Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Kokubu Himegi 3080-1
  • Hinatayama Brewing
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    Kagoshima Kirishima-shi Hayatocho Saikoji 649

Kagoshima Areas

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Over 100 active volcanoes across Kagoshima make it one of the Japan's most exciting prefectures. The prefectural capital, Kagoshima city, looks out to one of the prefecture’s most spectacular volcanoes, Sakurajima, an island of its own that can be visited and seen close up or admired from afar, with the promise of breathtaking sunsets complete with frequent puffs of smoke and ash. Down the Satsuma Peninsula, the most southerly part of mainland Japan, waterfalls, sand onsen, and fascinating history await, while Kagoshima's abundance of satsuma imo (sweet potato) provide a wholesome snack as well as one of Japan's favourite drinks - shochu.

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