Awaji Food Research Institute
Raising the resolution of “delicious”
Looking at food as one continuous thread — land, nature, production, the table, culture, and society.
Shoyu Gura (tentative)Opening spring 2027A former brewery in Sumoto, Hyogo
The former brewery and Awaji’s landscape — real photos will follow completion.OPENING 2027
A former soy sauce brewery in Sumoto, Awaji Island, becoming a place where food research and experience meet.
News
Updates on the way to opening will be posted on the news page.
No updates yet. (Construction starts September 2026; completion March 2027.)
Research
About AFRI — the food culture of 50 years ahead
AFRI is a food research institute that accumulates knowledge and opens it to society.
Rather than a single correct answer, we explore food across positions and values.
Platform
HOTEL
Rooms & stay experience
A stay you can only have here — two rooms where staying becomes a way of learning about food.
Rooms you can taste
The subjects of our research sit within arm’s reach.
Touch the knowledge base
Explore what you are curious about with AFRI’s knowledge base.
Welcome food
A first dish made from the ingredients we are studying right now.
Program
Platform
SHOP & TAP BAR
Shop & tap bar
Local processed foods and local craft beer, open to anyone passing by.
Platform
AWAJI JOURNEY HUB
Tourist information
Drop in mid-journey for guidance on the island’s food and places.
Research
FIELD
Awaji and Sumoto
Awaji appears in Japan’s oldest chronicles as one of three Miketsukuni. We reinterpret that history as a role.
A former brewery in central Sumoto, where researchers and travellers pass each other in the same space.
Knowledge guild
A membership community continuing slow work, like brewing with resident microbes.
CSA
Community supported agriculture, shortening the distance from grower to table.
VISIT
Access (Sumoto)
In the middle of Sumoto, within walking distance of the shopping street and the sea.