Junmai Specialist YATA 純米酒専門八咫 札幌狸小路店

YATA 純米酒専門 was a chain of sake drinking place that served junmai sake. Junmai sake means that the sake is brewed without adding any distilled alcohol. Alcohol is added to draw out flavors. However as brewing methods become more refined, there is movement towards pure junmai sakes.

I had first visited the YATA branch at Nagoya. And decided to have a look at this branch at Sapporo Tanukikoji (札幌狸小路). Similarly, one could enjoy free flow of junmai sakes for 60 min at the price of JPY 2,000.

Below were some of the sakes we tried. Sae 冴 from Toyama Masuizumi (満寿泉).

Seikyou (誠鏡) from Hiroshima was a favorite sake brewery. 3600 bottles (1.8L) was produced for this label 三十六石蔵.

Maruda (まる田) sake was made by Kobayashi Shuzo Kitanonishiki (小林酒造北の錦). We visited the brewery earlier.And Nito (二兎 ) sake was from Aichi Prefecture (愛知県).

Website: https://junmaishu.net/
Tabelog: https://tabelog.com/hokkaido/A0101/A010102/1053594/