Brewing Museum Toko Brewery

Kojima Sohonten, the legendary brewery, is a long-established company that has been in business since the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600). It is one of the few sake breweries that have been in business since before the Edo period and developed as the official sake brewing family of the Yonezawa domain.The brewery still produces sake that makes the most of the Yonezawa climate.

The Sake Brewer's Museum is a renovated warehouse building that was once used for sake brewing. Inside the spacious museum, visitors can learn about the traditional sake brewing process through exhibits and audio guidance. Many valuable exhibits include Tokkuri (sake bottle) and other sake vessels and tools used in sake brewing. Shikomigura (warehouse in preparation for brewing ), with its rows of wooden vats over the height of an adult, was the location for a cosmetics commercial produced by Tom Hooper.

The attached sake store sells and offers Toko's limited-edition sake tastings from the brewery. The shop also sells cosmetics containing its own originally developed sake lees extract.