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Green cliffs and reef flats along the Okinawa coast seen from Gushichan Gusuku

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Subtropical islands, and time kept in clay jars.

A prefecture of subtropical islands whose awamori culture reaches back to the Ryukyu Kingdom. Black koji, clay jars and long ageing are central to its story.

Photographed in Yaese, OkinawaPhoto: Kugel~commonswiki / CC BY-SA 4.0

PREFECTURES

HokkaidoAomoriIwateMiyagiAkitaYamagataFukushimaIbarakiTochigiGunmaSaitamaChibaTokyoKanagawaNiigataToyamaIshikawaFukuiYamanashiNaganoGifuShizuokaAichiMieShigaKyotoOsakaHyogoNaraWakayamaTottoriShimaneOkayamaHiroshimaYamaguchiTokushimaKagawaEhimeKochiFukuokaSagaNagasakiKumamotoOitaMiyazakiKagoshimaOkinawa

4 producers on record

01

AWAMORI

  1. 01Zuisen Distillery瑞泉酒造EST. 1887
  2. 02Chuko Awamori Distillery忠孝酒造EST. 1949
  3. 03Seifuku Shuzo請福酒造EST. 1949
  4. 04Kumejima's Kumesen久米島の久米仙EST. 1949

Drinks

Geographical Indications

  • GI RyukyuSPIRITS · 1995-06-30

SOURCES

  1. 1酒類の地理的表示一覧国税庁 National Tax Agency · Government · accessed 2026-09-26

PHOTO CREDITS

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  1. 1Okinawa coast — Kugel~commonswiki · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons