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Omoya Shuzo, the brewery behind the sake &#8220;Yokoyama (\u6a2a\u5c71)&#8221;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 2018, this sake brewery stands on a miraculous spot where its owner, Yokoyama-san, discovered ideal underground water for sake brewing after searching the island and drilling 20 locations.<br>The brewery is equipped with state-of-the-art brewing technology and embodies sustainability that respects the island&#8217;s environment\u2014truly a next-generation sake brewery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having apprenticed under the renowned Toyo Biijin (\u6771\u6d0b\u7f8e\u4eba), Yokoyama-san has crafted a unique brewing style and philosophy through his travels between Iki and Hagi. We had the privilege of learning about it firsthand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are excited to announce that we\u2019ve started exporting &#8220;Yokoyama (\u6a2a\u5c71)&#8221;!<br>Bringing the world of Iki sake to the global stage!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"643\" data-id=\"3432\" src=\"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/yokoyama-now-available-03-1024x643.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/yokoyama-now-available-03-1024x643.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/yokoyama-now-available-03-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/yokoyama-now-available-03-768x482.jpg 768w, 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Omoya Shuzo, the brewery behind the sake &#8220;Yokoyama (\u6a2a\u5c71)&#8221;! Founded in 2018, this sake brewery stands on a miraculous spot where its owner, Yokoyama-san, discovered ideal underground water for sake brewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"swell_btn_cv_data":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/?p=3430","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakurasaketen.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}