Craft Museum
Craft Museum
Craft Museum in Kotobuki, Taito Ward, offers a standing kakuuchi-style tasting room dedicated to domestic and global craft gins, Japanese wines, and select sake.
01 / ABOUT THE PLACE
Picking your choice of 3 gins from roughly 60 domestic and global labels is the core ritual of the Craft Gin Cellar Door at Craft Museum. Tasting pours can be sampled neat to discern the base botanicals and aromas directly, or extended with soda water, letting you explore how effervescence shifts the profile.
The wine shelves emphasize Japanese bottlings. Through the Wine Cellar Door, visitors taste 3 selections spanning reds, whites, and skin-contact orange wines. Guided by background notes and context shared by the owner, a flight can reveal dimensions that casual glass pours seldom highlight.
Beyond gin and wine, the shop maintains a dedicated appreciation for Kenbishi, the historic Nada sake brewery. A four-part tasting flight compares Kenbishi, Kuromatsu, Gokujo, and Mizuho in traditional tasting cups (kikichoko). When supplies arrive—primarily during the winter months—the shop also offers Kuromatsu Kenbishi poured fresh from a wooden barrel into a pristine cedar masu cup (sho-ichigo), which guests may take home. The barrel sake is seasonal and subject to availability.
The small, calm room centers on a standing counter suited to solo visitors or duos. Bottles sampled during the tasting can be purchased to take home.
03 / TAKE A LOOK AROUND
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04 / YOUR NEXT STOP
1 Chome-20-13 Kotobuki, Taito City, Tokyo 111-0042
Please contact the venue directly with enquiries or reservation requests.
Approximate hours based on listed information, in Japan Standard Time (JST)
BEFORE YOUR VISIT
Open only on Fridays from 14:00 to 19:00; closed from Saturday through Thursday.
The Craft Gin Cellar Door allows you to choose 3 pours from roughly 60 Japanese and global craft gins, and the Wine Cellar Door focuses on Japanese wines, each priced at ¥2,000. If you purchase take-home bottles of alcohol totaling ¥3,000 or more after the tasting, a ¥1,000 discount applies.
Offerings include the Kenbishi 4-Pour Tasting Set (¥1,200), served in tasting cups with Kenbishi, Kuromatsu, Gokujo, and Mizuho, as well as the Kuromatsu Kenbishi Barrel Sake by the 1-Go Masu (¥1,500), where the cedar cup can be taken home.
Credit cards, debit cards, and transit IC cards are accepted, as well as PayPay, d Barai, au PAY, Rakuten Pay, and NFC mobile payments.
Free Wi-Fi is available inside the restaurant.
There is no wheelchair-accessible parking, but paid parking lots and paid street parking are available nearby.
POKOTABI / AROUND HERE
