Yamato River Sake Brewery Museum

A 230-year-old sake brewery converted into a museum where visitors walk through original kura storehouses with massive wooden vats and hand-forged tools. Aizu's mineral-rich spring water gives the sake a clean, crisp character, and free tastings include seasonal limited editions unavailable elsewhere. Kitakata's other claim to fame, its distinctive red-brick kura storehouses, line the surrounding streets.