Kanro Soy Sauce Museum & Sagawa Soy Sauce Brewery

Kanro Shoyu (vintage soy sauce) was invented in Yanai 200 years ago. Its production process utilizes a unique technique of double-stage fermentation and was loved by the local feudal lord Yoshikawa. The vintage flavor of soy sauce and unique production process have been preserved by two local soy sauce breweries, both of them still remain in the downtown. One of them is Sagawa Soy Sauce Brewery which is now open to the public as museum as well, you will have a chance to learn the special production processes of this vintage soy sauce and see various traditional tools, such as large tub barrels made of Japanese cedar wood.