Naba Shoten

Naba Shoten was started by a merchant serving the regional lord. The merchant constructed a silk waving business in the area, and subsequently a sake research facility in the beginning of the 19th century. The merchant’s family would eventually make soy sauce and miso paste along with sake, and create Naba Shoten, and establish a kimono business as well; their kimono trade name “Masuya” dates back to 400 hundred years earlier. To this day, their treasured heritage is their multi-level concrete brewing facility, completed in 1928 with conveyor belts and elevators, at a time when others were still milling rice using water mills.