Kizakura Kappa Country

Kizakura brewery restaurant with an adjoining kappa folklore museum and sake tasting garden

Kizakura is one of the three major Fushimi sake breweries, known outside Japan for its kappa goblin mascot on the label. The brewery's Kappa Country complex combines a sake tasting bar, a garden restaurant serving beer-battered tofu and sake-steamed crab, and a small museum dedicated to kappa folklore from Japanese literature and art.

The setting -- a reconstructed garden compound around a central kura warehouse -- is more relaxed than the Gekkeikan museum and better suited to a meal than a quick tasting. The beer brewed on-site from Fushimi water is underrated and worth trying alongside the sake.

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