Gekkeikan Ōkura Sake Museum

The Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum occupies a converted brewery building from 1909 in Fushimi, one of Japan's most productive sake-brewing districts. The museum traces Gekkeikan's history from its 1637 founding through its growth years in the 1890s, displaying around 400 historical tools. Large vintage wooden tubs fill the inner courtyard, and a working fermentation room visible through side windows still produces about 40 kiloliters annually. Collectors of package design will enjoy tracing how Gekkeikan's bottles and labels evolved over the centuries. One bottle on display carries a 'Made in Occupied Japan' label; another, over 70 centimeters tall, was used only for advertising because it would be too heavy to pour from if filled.