Toshimaya's sake history in Edo (Tokyo) reaches back to 1596, when Juemon Toshimaya opened a sake shop and brewing operation near Kanda's Kamakura riverbank, making it one of the oldest continuously operating sake lineages in the capital. Kinkon is the only sake designated as sacred offering sake at all three of Tokyo's major shrines โ Meiji Jingu, Kanda Myojin, and Hie Shrine โ a distinction it holds to this day. The brewery draws brewing water from 150 meters underground in the Musashino Plateau, and maintains a philosophy of quality over volume.
