When you come to Japan, you can’t go home without tasting sake!
Sake is Japanese traditional alcohol. In Japanese, “sake” means all alcohol and “Nihonshu” is the name for what foreigner calls “sake”.
I will introduce you a popular place from also locals. There, you can taste many kinds of good Sake easily and also you can spend good time with your friend.
KURAND Sake Market provides a system that you can drink as much as Sake you want with no time limit and you only have to pay 3000yen!
You can buy snacks in the restaurant and surprisingly, you can also take foods in the restaurant!! There are foods department near by the restaurant and you can always go buy them and come back.
This store assorts more than 100 kinds of selected Sake. There are great sake made by small breweries but not yet familiar. Kurand collects those sake brands made carefully by hand. Kurand
Also, Kurand is particular about buying
Kurand takes special care for sake preservation. Freshness is importance of taste. Kurand own big refrigerator in Tokyo and ship sake to each stores everyday.
When you arrive to the station, you better go to buy foods before going to the restaurant because you can take foods in whatever you want!
Restaurant provide you dish, cup, chopstick, fork and spoon, soy sauce, towel, and even microwaves!!
As you arrive to the place, you pay 3000yen. And you get stamp on your hand to show that you paid.
You can choose cups from many kinds because Sake taste different depends on material of cups. They have menu book and it made you easy to choose sake from more than 100s of kinds.
Staff is always ready to answer your question so don’t hesitate to ask them if you don’t know about sake.
They have machine to worm sake up. You can enjoy them either worm or cold.
Kurand has three restaurants. All of them are located in very convenient places center of Tokyo; Shibuya, Asakusa, Ikebukuro.
KURAND SAKE MARKET SHIBUYA | |
Matsumoto building 3F, 2-9-10, Dougenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo | |
3 min walk from Shibuya station | |
Weekdays 17:00~23:00(22:00 LO) Weekends 12:00~16:00(15:00 LO) / 17:00~23:00(22:00 LO) |
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No Holiday | |
03-6455-0277 | |
Sake bar | |
¥2,000~¥2,999 |
KURAND SAKE MARKET ASAKUSA | |
Rekusuasakusa building B1F, 1-43-10, Asakusa, Taito-ku, Tokyo | |
1 min walk from Asakusa station | |
17:00~23:00(22:00 LO) | |
No Holiday | |
03-6892-8442 | |
Sake bar | |
¥2,000~¥2,999 |
KURAND SAKE MARKET IKEBUKURO | |
S&k building 4F, 3-27-3, Nishi ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo | |
7 min walk from Ikebukuro station | |
Weekdays 17:00~23:00(22:00 LO) Weekends 12:00~16:00(15:00 LO) / 17:00~23:00(22:00 LO) |
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No Holiday | |
03-6912-6686 | |
Sake bar | |
¥2,000~¥2,999 |
writer:Midori