Overview
A miso factory in Aomori City. It uses soybeans and rice from the prefecture and carries out the long fermentation of a cold region.
Verification notes
Reservation-only factory tours and a miso-making experience were confirmed in the prefecture's official tourism information.
About this place
Kanesa Co., Ltd. is a miso maker with its head office in Namioka, Aomori, Aomori Prefecture. It is a functional subsidiary of Marukome Co., Ltd. In a TV commercial for its own products made in 1979, featuring the singer Awaya Noriko, it became famous for the line "Taishita tamageta" (Aomori dialect meaning "I was very surprised"), which later became a buzzword of the time. On 1 October 2019 it transferred its business to Kanesa Co., Ltd. (the new company, renamed from Kanesa Seizo Co., Ltd. the same day), established by a company split.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Field：Fermentation, miso factory
Source aomori-tourism.com ↗Source maff.go.jp ↗Official website
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