Nada-Gogō

Nada-Gogō (灘五郷, nada-gogō, "The Five Villages of Nada") are five area-based groupings of sake breweries in the cities of Kobe and Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.

[1] Records show that sake production first started in Nada nearly 700 years ago, in 1330.

[2] However, the beginning of Nada sake's rise to popularity is often said to be when Bunzaemon Zakoya moved to the area from Itami City and started a brewery there during the Kan'ei period.

The rise of Nada's sake coincided with the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had barrels of sake shipped to Edo aboard ships.

[3] Many breweries in the region were heavily damaged in the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995, but most have recovered and continue to produce sake.