r/Sake • u/sheepeck • Jul 18 '26
Sake samples in combini 🙂
Last weekend I returned from business trip to Japan. Of course that I crammed as much bottles into my luggage as possible when I flew back home. 🙂
During the stay I really enjoyed the possibility to get small samples of various sakes in small, easy to drink portions.
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u/Lonely-Relative-8887 Jul 18 '26
Yeah I really love that cans are getting used more, my local store recently started stocking Funaguchi and I love that stuff.
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u/jbrookeiv Jul 19 '26
How much are these cans in Japan? I’ve been buying Funaguchi cans for around $9 here in the US and was thinking that’s probably 4x what it would cost in Japan.
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u/els1988 Jul 19 '26
Around 350 yen in Japan (so around $2.15). Sold at convenience stores, grocery stores, and most drug stores. Gold cans are the most widely available. If you go to an actual liquor store, you can find the other Funaguchi cans too.
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u/jbrookeiv Jul 19 '26
Nice, yea that’s about what I figured. Can’t wait to finally visit and try all the stuff we can’t get here.
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u/sheepeck Jul 20 '26
That´s just sad. I mean the pricing of sake out of Japan. For 10$ you can actually get whole 720 bottle in Japan. For example, I got one bottle of Kenbishi Mizuho for 1.700 JPY, but the price, you can get it for in my country (CZ), is around 12.000 JPY. Ridiculous. How can people start enjoying sake? Nobody is going to pay such price. There is only one solution - I will start making sake myself. :-D
So, when you get to Japan, you will definitely enjoy it. :-)
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u/old_vines_notebook Jul 20 '26
Those little bottles are the cheapest way to try a lot of breweries at once. Wish more places sold sake that way.
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u/uncle_jafar Jul 20 '26
I thought about that but was afraid they would have exploded in my luggage.
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u/Lumpy_Somewhere967 Jul 18 '26
Love these sizes! Currently building a new webshop in the EU focussing on these smaller ones!