A Wide Workshop for the Brewery
The Ebiki Workshop (海老喜作業場) is a workshop essential to understanding the brewing process of the early Meiji period, altered in the 1950s and 1960s in Toyomamachi Teraike, Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture, and was registered as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property (structure) on May 10, 2018 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
The Agency records a single-storey timber building with a metal roof and a building area of 146 square metres; registration number 04-0155.
An Annex to the Brewing Store
Ebiki is a merchant house of miso and soy-sauce brewers in the old castle town of Toyoma, with eight buildings on its site registered (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The workshop, of the early Meiji period, lies near the middle of the north side of the site, between the brewing store and the former sake brewery.
A single-storey timber building with Japanese trusses, it has east-west gabled roofs set side by side and one large working space inside (Agency for Cultural Affairs). The Agency describes it as an annex to the brewing store and essential to understanding the brewing process.
Why It Was Registered
The Agency registered it for its contribution to the historic landscape.
What to Look For
Look for the twin gabled roofs and the single large working space (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
Visiting
The owner is not listed in the Agency record. According to the Ebiki website, the family business still makes and sells miso and soy sauce here. Ebiki and Tome City give the opening hours of the Kura no Shiryokan museum in the former sake brewery as 9:00 to 17:00, with admission of 200 yen; the former soy-sauce store (Ebiki Hall) is used for group meals by reservation only, and no other building is open inside. The eight buildings are introduced together on the Ebiki page.
Q&A
- When was it built?
- In the early Meiji period (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
- Where is it?
- Between the brewing stores.
- What is inside?
- One large working space.
- Why does it matter?
- It shows the brewing process.
- When was the Ebiki Workshop registered?
- On May 10, 2018 (Agency for Cultural Affairs).
Basic Information
| Name | Ebiki Workshop (海老喜作業場) |
|---|---|
| Location | 22 Toyomamachi Teraike, Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture |
| Designation | Registered Tangible Cultural Property (Structure) |
| Year Designated | Registered 2018/05/10 (Heisei 30) |
| Quantity | 1 building |
| Dimensions | Single-storey timber, metal roof, 146 m² |
| Owner | Not listed in the Agency database |
| Public Access | No official information on access |
References
- Ebiki Workshop (Database of National Cultural Properties, Agency for Cultural Affairs)
- https://kunishitei.bunka.go.jp/heritage/detail/101/00012275
- Kura no Shiryokan (Ebiki, in Japanese)
- https://ebiki.com/?mode=f3
- Historic sights (Tome City, in Japanese)
- https://www.city.tome.miyagi.jp/kanko/tourism/see/rekishi/index.html
Last verified: 2026.10.28
