Kitanonishiki 北の錦, 小林酒造

We had one more sake brewery to visit for this trip - Kobayashi sake brewery (小林酒造). It was located just east of Sapporo. It was also known as Kitanonishiki 北の錦. Their primary sake label.
It used to produce large volume of sakes until 2008. Currently it produced sakes made from Hokkaido rice only.

Beside the usual sake retail shop, there was the Kitanonishiki Memorial Museum (北の錦記念館) that was open to public. Many of these buildings were registered as national cultural property. The brewery was founded more than 140 years back (1878), old sake wares and documents were displayed here.

We were able to move around the compound, It was amazing that no staff was around to look over these items. We walked round the residence of the founder 初代小林米三郎. Interesting wooden figurines found within the garden (中庭).

The five guiding points (小林酒造五省) on the interest, credibility, customer, development, relevance of the brewery.

There was also a soba shop "Ginsuian" next to this. We had lunch here. The soba were made with the same water as the sakes.

Website: http://www.kitanonishiki.com/