Address: 919 Ōkubochō Nishijima Akashi Hyogo Prefecture 674-0065 Japan
The White Oak Distillery is located in Akashi City and is primarily producing sake and shochu, though it is Japan’s oldest whiskey distillery. Though, they only produce whiskey two month a year. Read more...
Address: 970 Shibanta Gotenba-shi Shizuoka-ken 412-0003 Japan
The Fuji Gotemba Distillery is located at the foot of mount Fuji. Its elevation ensures that the distilleries temperatures range very similar to Scottish distilleries throughout the year. The distillery belongs to the Kirin Distilling group and was founded in the 1970th. The distillery was originally called the Gotemba Distillery and later changed to Fuji-Gotemba when it came under the Read more...
Address: Nitsuka Sendai-shi Miyagi-ken 989-3433 Japan
The Miyagikyo Distillery is surrounded by rolling hills and forests. It was formerly known as Sendai Distillery, its name today derives from Miyagi Valley where the Sendai river mergers with the Nikkawa river. The distillery is owned by Nikka Whisky Distilling. It was the second distillery established by Nikka Whisky after Yoichi Distillerz in Hokkaido. Read more...
Address: 2913 Hakushūchō Torihara Hokuto-shi Yamanashi-ken 408-0316 Japan
The Hakushu Distillery was founded in 1973 by Suntory. It is located in the Japanese Southern Alps and is nicknamed the “forest distillery”. It is among the highest malt distilleries in the world with 700 meters above sea level. At its time it was one of the largest distilleries in the world. Hakushu west is no longer active, production was Read more...
Address: 1 Chome-12-1 Sakurao Hatsukaichi Hiroshima Prefecture 738-0004 Japan
Bottling company for Togouchi Blended Whisky. Chugoku Jozo was founded near the city of Hiroshima. The Distillery produces since 1918 fruit liqueurs, sake and shochu under the brands Dharma and Songshan, a long aged shochu. In 1990 Chugoku Jozo started blending whiskeys under the brand Togouchi. Chugoku Jozo Distillery does not distill whisky but imports it already distilled, directly from Read more...
Address: Midorigaoka 49 Chichibu Saitama Prefecture 368-0067 Japan
Chichibu distillery is owned by Venture whisky and was founded by Ichiro Akuto who is grandson of the founder of the closed distillery Hanyu. Chichibu distillery was built on a small hill in the Chichibu-city. The environment is unique as Japanese. It’s very hot and humid in the summertime, but on the other hand, it’s extremely cold in wintertime with Read more...
Address: 1795-2 Maseguchi Miyota-machi Nagano-ken 389-0207 Japan
Karuizawa distillery was a Japanese whisky distillery located at Miyota, a town on the southern slopes of an active volano, Mount Asama, in Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture. At ist time it was the smallest Distillery in Japan and it was mothballed in 2000. The distillery was demolished in 2011 and the property sold in 2012. Read more...
Address: Mishima District Shimamoto Osaka Prefecture 618-0001 Japan
In 1923, Shinjiro Torii, the founder of Suntory, built Japans first malt whisky distillery in the Vale of Yamazaki. Yamazaki Whiskey Distillery is the first Whiskey distillery in Japan. It is also the most famous for its award winning whiskies. Read more...
