Japan’s most crowded sake prefecture, one pin per brewery. Tap a pin to meet the brewery and its flagship sake.
Niigata first · the rest of Japan to follow
Brewery list: National Tax Agency, Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Taxation Bureau brewery map. Pins are placed by town, not street address.
SAKE TYPES · 酒のタイプ
Four questions, sixteen types
Every sake will get a four-letter type, decided by the people who drink it. Read the bottle on four axes, and the crowd’s answer becomes its type. Community voting opens soon; you can already try it on any brewery above.
L Light · R Rich淡麗 ／ 濃醇
Body. Crisp and clean, or round and full.
D Dry · S Sweet辛口 ／ 甘口
How the finish lands. Sharp and dry, or soft and sweet.
Q Quiet · A Aromatic穏やか ／ 華やか
Aroma. Rice-and-grain calm, or fruit-and-flower lift.
C Classic · M Modern伝統 ／ 現代
Feel. Old-school and food-first, or new-wave and expressive.
LDQCLight, dry, quiet, classic: the textbook 淡麗辛口 that made Niigata famous.
Missing a brewery, or know one we should visit on camera?