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Table sake · imported direct
This is what they actually drink in Japan on a Tuesday. $23.
Not the ceremonial stuff. Not the American-made version. The everyday bottles Japanese drinkers keep on the counter, bought straight from the brewery.
$23–$35 / bottle · free shipping on any two
Takashimizu — Honjozo
Akita · 720ml · good warm
$23
straight from the brewery
One 720ml bottle
Why not just buy ?
Nothing wrong with that. But most sake sold in the US passes through an importer and a distributor before it reaches a shelf, and every hand adds cost and time. The bottles on this page come to us straight from small breweries in Japan: $23–35 a bottle, fewer hands, and free shipping on any two.
See the bottlesWhy the same bottle costs $45 on an American shelf
Every hand between the brewery and your shelf takes a cut.
The usual way
$45
A 720ml bottle
Brewery
$12
Importer, distributor, retailer
Ours
$23
A 720ml bottle
$22 you don’t pay
Brewery
$12
Us
$11
shipping, duty, cold storage
In a Tokyo liquor store the same bottle is $15.
Same brewery. Same bottle. Half the hands.
The part nobody shows you.
Why you've never seen these
Those cuts only pencil out on expensive sake, so everyday bottles never get on the boat.
What that leaves on the shelf
Special-occasion sake, domestic sake, and nothing in between.
Free shipping on any two Direct Import bottles.
Shipping: $19.50 → FREE
Every bottle on this page counts. Take two, or take the lot.
Pick a pair. Shipping’s on us.
Two Direct Import bottles is where shipping goes free, so we put them together already. Every one of these is a bottle you could open on a weeknight without thinking about it, and you can take more than two.
Rather choose yourself? Pick any two below
The everyday bottles
$23-$35 · 720ml · in stock today. Tap + to add. Same bottle twice? Fine.
- Takashimizu — Honjozo · $23
- Koshi no Hakugan — Kuromatsu · $24
- Honshuichi — Muroka Honjozo · $27
- Hakubanishiki — Karakuchi · $28
- Koshi no Hakugan — Junmai · $28
- Iwamiginzan — Tokubetsu Honjozo · $28
- Yamazaru — Yamahai · $31
See all Direct Imports · Free shipping on any two.
Take 10% off your first order.
We'll send the code, plus one short thing worth knowing: how to warm sake properly at home. Look for the Good warm badge above.
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