Sake Brewery Seki no Ichi & Kuramoto Restaurant — Restaurant in Ichinoseki

This is an old nihonshu brewery with a number of interesting old buildings, a museum, a gift shop with limited tasting, a cafe, a beer brewery, and a restaurant specializing in local delicacies. The nihonshu and beer are great -- especially the light and refreshing ale flavored with the peppery sansho herb. The food is great -- I got mulberry leaf udon, mixed mochi dishes, and tempura for a reasonable 1600 yen. Just the museum was not so interesting for 300 yen and I wish there had been more information about things to do there, tastings, and the food -- and I can speak and read Japanese. There are other interesting things nearby, though, including an old samurai home next to a quaint 19th...

Restaurant and sake/beer brewery featuring several local variations on mochi. Worth visiting for the food alone, but the beer is also some of the best craft beer I've encountered in Japan. Well hopped and flavourful, a far cry from the tourism-focussed 'craft' beers. The sake is also quite good - tastings are available of all in house sake, including the one that's ¥5000 per bottle. There's also a live unpasteurised sake with active koji, which is effervescent and...

The mochi with nine different tastes and the tasting beer set was a perfect match. My wife ordered the sabu sabu with local beef. I even ordered an extra sabu sabu set without meat. The nine dishes mochi set has one dish that’s not vegetarian, and the soup that included in the meal has chicken. The staff were so helpful let me know that it has chicken and removed from the soup for us. We made reservation months ago so no...