“Shoyu Park” Open Tour and Work Experience Saitama Kawashimacho November 27th 17:41
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A facility where you can experience making soy sauce, “Soy Sauce Park” has opened in Kawashima-cho, Saitama Prefecture, and is gaining popularity.
This facility was founded in the first year of Kansei in the middle of the Edo period, and the “Fuegi Soy Sauce” in Kawashima Town, which has reached 230 years, has opened this month.
You can visit the three soy sauce warehouses and see the traditional process of making soy sauce using the wooden “oken” made from Saitama Prefecture wheat and domestic soybeans.
And to ferment the moromi produced in the manufacturing process, you can experience the work called “Kaitsuki” that stirs with a long stick and the work that squeezes the wooden machine.
In addition, in the tour course, “textbooks” summarizing soy sauce are distributed. Among these, the textbook for “Japanese” explains soy sauce making terms, and the textbook for “science” summarizes the fermentation mechanism in an easy-to-understand manner. It is.
In addition, there is a corner where you can buy soy sauce made at the facility, and a large “keke” that you can enter and enjoy, so you can enjoy it with your family.
Domestic soy sauce shipments have fallen to around 60% of the peak due to declining population and westernization of food, and the company has reduced the generation of people and foreigners through this facility. I want to convey the appeal of soy sauce to travelers.
President Yoshigoro Fueki, the 12th head of the company, said, “I want many people to feel that craftsmen are making soy sauce with care so that they can raise their children.” This facility is open daily and admission is free.