On Saturday, October 7, Nihonsakari was one of the satellite venues for the Sakagura Renaissance, and since you could enjoy sake there too, Shachomi @ Nishi2 went to check it out.
(Photo by Sasako @ Nishi2 Supporter)
Apparently there was a line at 11 in the morning. Since the main Renaissance event was also happening, this was actually a pretty short line.
The information board at the entrance. It looked like paid tastings were split between cash and cashless payment lines.
This is what it looked like when I went at 2:30 p.m.
This time, the system was that you got a stamp each time you had a drink. You get to keep the ochoko sake cup.
The 3,000 yen lucky bags were still available at this time too.
There was a photo spot along the passageway to the venue. Oh, this is the Shachomi pose.
As expected, the place was packed with visitors. Let’s see what kind of food and drinks they had.
Dippin’ Dots beaded ice cream, frankfurters, and yakisoba.
“LA ZUCCA DI NAPOLI ALA,” the familiar pizza oven food truck in Nishinomiya.
Pizza and sake sounds pretty good.
Oden sounds great too!!
And while I was browsing around…
The staff member who had been running the special tasting events at Nihonsakari Rengakan for three months in a row showed up dressed like this, lol. That makes it four months straight, lol.
And with that…
They poured the sake for the tasting.
I wanted three cups of the gold-prize-winning daiginjo, even though it was limited to one cup per person, lol.
Oh, something’s going on here.
It’s taruzake, barrel sake with a nice hinoki cypress aroma.
It even comes with a masu wooden cup!! So stylish! Both of them, lol.
So stylish!!
The hugely popular brewery tour attraction! I even got to meet the toji master brewer!!!!
They were also holding a workshop to make these tiny sugidama cedar balls.
It was by advance reservation from well before the event, but the slots filled up right away.
Students from Mukogawa Women’s University who were involved with the JAPAN SODA collaboration between Mukogawa Women’s University and Nihonsakari that we wrote about the other day were also there helping out.
They also had senbonbiki, the string-pulling game often seen at festivals.
There’s so much JAPAN SODA. And look at the number of clear masu cups, lol.
I kind of want this body pillow at the photo spot. It’s not for sale, though, right? Oh, and despite how I’m dressed, I’m a guy.
Shachomi appeared. That would probably startle people.
I even got to meet Miyatan!! Brewery open days really are fun. I’m already looking forward to next year.
