Izuto Tsukemonoho

The shop is a 5-minute walk from Sakae Station on the Higashiyama Line. Tucked away in the downtown area of ​​Sakae is Izuto Tsukemonoho, a long-established pickle shop that was founded in the late Meiji or early Taisho period. Izuto Tsukemonoho is a shop that carefully makes Moriguchi pickles by hand using Moriguchi daikon radish harvested in Aichi Prefecture. Moriguchi-zuke is a type of pickle called narazuke, which is made by pickling vegetables in sake lees. It is called Moriguchi-zuke because it is pickled with Moriguchi daikon, which is recognized by Guinness as the world's longest radish. At the store, Moriguchi-zuke is manufactured entirely by hand, with pickling carried out five times over two and a half years. We adhere to the long-standing tradition of brewing sake in wooden barrels, soaking it in fermented sake lees after removing the air, and finally marinating it in mirin lees. Also, one of the restaurant's specialties is to only use the very first vegetables grown that year. By using crops that are grown outdoors in their natural environment rather than being grown in greenhouses, the pickles are highly nutritious and fresh. Moriguchi-zuke and narazuke are valuable products that are not sold to retailers and can only be purchased at Izuto Tsukemonoho. Please visit us when you come to Sakae.