Yama-Roku Shoyu

Excellent place to visit to learn about the only barrel brewed soya sauce facility in Japan. I hope they can continue this “close to extinction” tradition for many more years to come. The team looks like a united bunch of young people. Great work!

I had an amazing visit, tour and tasting at this 150++ year old Soy Sauce brewery. the current generation is also leading an amazing project to revitalize the making and usage of handmade wooden KOIKE barrels for soy sauce factories. We saw the brewing room. equipment, met the lovely staff, tried the different soy sauces -- one is aged for 4 years! AND had ice cream with a bit of sweet black beans and the think aged soy sauce. All in all a fantastic experience. ALSO fun souvenirs available, a cute mascot and delicious things to bring home! Good luck with the "Koike revival" So exciting.

We stumbled across this soy-sauce plant when visiting Shodoshima. When we stepped in the reception, a young and friendly guy introduced himself (we managed to communicate with each other in spite of language barrier) and asked if we would like a brief tour. We gladly accepted his offer and what an eye-opening experience. And he proudly explained to us how their premium soy-sauce (which took four years) was made! If you managed to stand the musty and pungent smell, this place was a wonderful visit. (We bought some of their products and they were just delightful.)

We love how serious they took their business in making a great products.You could feel the passion then the guide introducing the whole making process and their concept. I personally prefer this factory more than the most popular one but the location was only easy to go with a car.

Great place to visit to see how soy sauce is made in the traditional form, in cedar wood barrels. The staff will take you into the area where they ferment the beans and it smells really good if you like soy sauce. At the end of the visit, you even get to taste the various sauces made by Yamaroku. The natural taste is so good that I am now a convert and will find it hard to go back to normal soy sauce.

The stuff gave me a quick introduction on how to making soy sauce and show us the real work place. I did enjoy it and also bought some soy sauce there. Highly recommended!

What a charming place this is! "Around" 150 years old soy sauce manufacturers. Bought some thick soy sauce and sat for a ice cream and shoyu. It was very tasty, much better than I had anticipated!

Absolutely delicious soy. Super rich flavours. Different varieties that you can try. Walk in tour was cute. Guide spoke limited English, but still great. Soy is worth a buy at $20AUD when it’s $65AUD back in Australia.