Marukin Soy Sauce Museum

Short and simple museum, but very good value as you get a complimentary bottle of soy sauce plus 100¥ discount for the shop. The soft serve soy sauce ice cream is really good. Worth walking up the road to the nearby sake brewery and bakery, they're really good.

Tour around by ourselves, no rush and took in every bit of history, aroma of the soy sauce were everywhere, pleasent but never forceful. Biggest disappointment was I forgot to buy the soy sauce ice cream before the bus. I shall return

Since there wasn’t much around the hotel, we decided to visit this soy sauce museum nearby. It seems that soy sauce is a specialty of Shodoshima. The entrance fee was 500 yen, and although I initially thought it was a bit pricey, I was surprised to receive a bottle of soy sauce as soon as I bought the ticket. And it’s even in a glass bottle, so I already felt the ticket was worth it before we even started the tour. The explanations inside are available in Japanese, English, Korean, and Traditional Chinese, which is very considerate, and it’s definitely worth a visit regardless of whether you’re interested in the soy sauce production process. After the tour, you can buy soy sauce ice cream outside, and you can even drizzle a few drops of soy sauce on top. It tastes a bit like salted caramel ice cream, and it’s quite good. Plus, you can get a 100 yen discount on the ice cream with your entrance ticket!

A relatively small soy sauce museum. It introduces the history and processes of making soy sauce. 500yen entrance fee, which includes a small bottle (160mL) of soy sauce and 100yen discount of buying the soy flavoured ice cream, which tastes great.

Nice to stop by if you are in the island - it’s interesting to know how soy sauce has been made in old days. Soy sauce ice cream is sold at the small shop next to the museum which seems to be more popular than the museum itself. Some souvenirs are also available. Free parking available and the whole area smells like soy sauce.

Their products are good but i think if you are not keen to visit the museum there is no need to stop by. I came via public transportation and i feel it's a waste of time given the very sparse bus schedule. You drop off the bus then you have to wait for another hour. Just go directly to the movie village and there they sell exactly the same stuff and ice cream at the shop.

A great way to find out how soy sauce is made! In the museum there were English explanations under the Japanese, so even though I can read kanji fairly well I felt like I understood the process better 😉 We couldn’t tour the factory but we did see the vats of beans and malt percolating. And the smell was something else!!

You can smell the soy fragrance in the air!! Make sure to visit the wooden barrel aging room and also of course the ice cream!