
JI-BEER
1994: the year small breweries began.
The annual minimum volume for a beer licence fell from 2,000 kL to 60 kL.

08 / 47 — KANTO · JAPAN
Ibaraki, in the Kanto region. On record: Craft Beer.
Regional context image (photographed in an unrecorded location)Photo: Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 2.0
REGIONAL CONTEXT
A great plain, a great city, and the water around it.
Home to Japan's largest plain and the capital region. Rivers from the northern and western mountains water the plain, and makers of many kinds work close to the city.