Ponshukan

Ponshukan has a wonderful concept. Self service tastings of Niigata sake from vending machines. You buy tokens at the counter for 100 yen each. Each token gets you one taster.




Rae is an expert in using the sake vending machines. She demonstrates how it is done in this picture.

Rae is going to try Tenchijin. Local sake in honor of the 2009 Taiga Drama of the same name.






Here are two more machines of our favorite sake. I will get around to translating one of these days. These pix were taken pretty early in the tasting. If only I could remember what I drank....

The concept of the sake tasting vending machine may never make it to the US. It is just open for abuse....,by people like us.