show Abstracthide AbstractLactobacillus kosoensis NBRC 113063 was found and isolated from k?so, a Japanese sugar-vegetable fermented beverage. Whole-genome sequencing of L. kosoensis NBRC 113063 was performed using an Ion Torrent PGM system. The resulting draft genome sequence is 1,424,862 bp with an average G+C content of 30.5%, and 67 contigs are assembled. The draft genome of L. kosoensis NBRC 113063, annotated by the RAST server using Glimmer3, contains 1376 CDS, 1 tmRNA, 3 rRNA genes, 56 tRNA genes, and 1 repeat region.