( " principles: nihonshu, natural hot spas, as well as Jukujo. I count nutrient inwards alongside nihonshu because the 2 are inseparable").
Arriving inwards Sendai, I changed trains heading to Kuromatsu Station where I met a 3 machine convoy of sake drinkers - one-time friends. Six men as well as 6 Jukujo! Love was inwards the air. We commanded 3 SUVs across miles as well as miles of Tundra, through pristine valleys as well as lowlands, across frozen lakes as well as icy plateaus. Ravines steamed downward through snowed over rice fields one-half frozen as well as timelessly beautiful. This entirely confirmed that nosotros had reached Akita inwards suspension cervix speed. Heaven bound.
In the bottom moving painting you lot tin run across a mount inwards the background. It’s called Chokkai as well as it’s located inwards southern Akita, inwards an expanse rich inwards natural beauty as well as delicious water.
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Our showtime major halt was at a sake brewery called Akita Seishu, ane of the spill out sake houses inwards Japan. Here nosotros had a gamble to tour the brewery to run across how sake is made. Every sake theatre has its ain detail way or method of doing something.
In the moving painting below the sake worker is emptying a purse of sakamai ( sake rice) into a machine. This machine washes the rice earlier it is used for making sake. Traditionally, the brewer would produce this past times hand.
The Yama Toshi Tsuku was absolutely outstanding, as well as is a novel favorite of mine. After getting prissy as well as drunkard nosotros were off to our onsen ryoukan. We went as well as then deep into the sticks you lot had to pipage in the sunshine! In other words, at that topographic point was no cellular telephone signal. My crew were all veteran Tohoku people. The Driver Ozawa lived inwards Akita for fifteen years as well as had deep connections. It’s proficient having Japanese friends fifty-fifty though I all the same taste traveling solo from fourth dimension to time. .
