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Try your hand at pottery on a professional electric wheel and make two pieces of work from the options of cups, bowls, and single-flower vases. Experienced craftspeople will guide you through the process in detail, so you can create beautiful works even if you are a first-timer.
Pick your favorite from more than 10 types of items, including lucky cats, and paint it as you like. Your work will be fired and finished in about a month. If you’d like to take your work home with you on the same day, try the painting experience using markers (lucky cat only).
A pottery making experience using a technique called slab building. It is a simple way of making pottery using molds. Enjoy decorating your work with stamps. The color can be chosen from 7 options.
A Tokoname ware specialty store, boasting one of the largest selection of works available for sale. The pottery class can accommodate up to 130 people and offers four types of workshops:
electric wheel pottery making (throwing), hand-building, painting, and hand and footprint making.
Renovated from a former ceramic pipe factory, this curry shop offers a variety of curry dishes such as Vegetable Curry, made with about 10 kinds of chunky vegetables, and Butter Chicken Curry. The lunch combo includes a choice of bread or rice.
The first floor is packed with potteries, stationery, kitchen goods and other general items, and a café is located on the second floor.
One of the few places offering breakfast on Pottery Footpath. The toasted sandwich with homemade “kusa-mochi” (a rice flour dumpling flavored with Japanese mugwort and filled with red bean paste) is something to crave, as the crispy toast and the sticky kusa-mochi go so well together.
A slow wheel turned by hand will be used instead of an electric wheel. Freely create whatever shape you like, by pinching and smoothing the clay with your fingertips. The dinosaur making
class (¥3,000) is also popular.
A Tokoname ware store specializing in kyusu (teapots). A wide range of products from those suitable for daily use to masterpieces are available. All items are made by Tokoname artists.
A retailer with a selection of Tokoname ware that enrich everyday life. Works by local artists are displayed according to the technique and the period.
About 7 different types of ceramic works are on display, including the Nerikomi (marbled) series. You are lucky if you see the store cat!
Tokoname’s history and economic development are closely linked to its pottery (Tokoname yaki). The city is known as one of Japan’s “Six Ancient Kilns,” along with Echizen, Seto, Shigaraki, Tamba, and Bizen. These areas have pottery-making traditions dating back over 1,000 years.
Tokoname is a leading producer of maneki neko (lucky cat) ceramic figurines, which are symbols of good luck. Maneki neko are usually calico cats with white, black, and orange markings. They raise one front paw in the air and clutch a gold coin in the other. The raised paw mimics the Japanese gesture used to beckon someone: a raised hand with the palm facing down, and fingers moving up and down. Some maneki neko raise a left paw, which is said to beckon people, making them particularly popular with businesses eager to draw in customers. Other cats hold up a right paw to bring good fortune and wealth.
Start of the pottery trail. There is a gallery inside and one can purchase pottery and Tokoname souvenirs.
A large shopping zone filled with Tokoname-ware specialist stores. Not only teapots, purchase a variety of products including pots and decorations, and families can enjoy the pottery lessons and galleries.
