DISCOVER FUKUI

Create your very own Kitamaebune ship using Echizen washi paper crafts. Instructors, including guides from the Kono Kitamaebune Shipowners' Street Guide Association, will kindly teach you.

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A renovated 90-year-old traditional house in Imajo-juku. With the concept of "stepping into the local daily life," it offers experiences that let you immerse yourself in the diverse ways of life in the area.

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The Garden LABO Hill in Kuguko, Mihama Town, is a facility where visitors can deepen their understanding of gardening while having fun through experiences of 'learning,' 'creating,' and 'eating.' The grounds feature an 'Experience Facility', 'Exhib…

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■HighlightsAt Nishikikuri Lacquerware Shop in Kawada, the town of Echizen lacquerware, brothers run a lacquer workshop. In this experience, you'll receive hands-on instruction directly from Masataka Nishikikuri, the elder brother and artisan at…

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Create Your Own Chopsticks and Explore JapanWakasa Takumi Musubi – A Hands-On Traditional Craft Experience in Obama City, FukuiDiscover the craftsmanship of Wakasa not by simply watching, but by creating with your own hands.Wakasa Takumi Musu…

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Echizen Pottery Village features facilities where you can experience Echizen ware, a historic pottery tradition that has been continuously produced since the late Heian period.

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Echizen lacquerware is a traditional craft of which Sabae City in Fukui Prefecture is proud.This plan allows you to experience the artisans' skills up close through workshop tours and demonstrations,and experience lacquer painting yourself while re…

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Experience welding, create things in workshops, learn about the craft while playing with iron toys, and see, touch, and feel iron furniture.

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Located on a small hill along the Echizen coast, this glass studio offers sweeping views of the coastline from its workshop windows. We create pieces using the free-blown glass technique, which involves blowing glass without molds. Visitors can wat…

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The raw material for Echizen Japanese candles is the wax from the Japanese wax tree, and the wick is specially made from Japanese paper. Beyond the standard stick shape, they come in various forms, patterns, and colors, and are increasingly used fo…

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Wazumi-kan Municipal Pottery Studio is a hands-on facility where everyone from adults to children can enjoy pottery. Our pottery classes can accommodate up to 40 participants at a time. Young ceramic artists from the Nitten exhibition will kindly g…

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This is a heart-centering prayer bead crafting experience held after zazen meditation at the Head Temple Eiheiji. It is offered as a collaborative program with the Head Temple Eiheiji's day-trip zazen sessions. Zazen is the foundation of practice. …

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Highlights Inui Lens specializes in sunglass lenses. It is also a company dedicated to protecting eyes from harmful elements like ultraviolet rays, which can cause eye diseases. Experience creating safe and secure sunglasses—something only Inui Len…

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Place chestnuts, pinecones, and other items in an empty candy tin and carbonize them... and they become beautiful decorative charcoal right as they are. This is the only place in Japan where a "polished charcoal" artisan provides hands-on instructi…

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Maruoka Town in Sakai City is a major production center for narrow-width textiles, fabrics with a width of 10cm or less.We infiltrated a precious factory said to be the last in Japan capable of mass-producing Tyrolean ribbon,where you can witness f…

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Handmade Wakasa washi paper. We make paper in the size of a color paper.

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The abbot, who trained in Okinawa, creates OBAMA Glass in his hometown of Obama City, Fukui Prefecture.You can see the colorful glass goods being made right here.Workshop displays and sales are available, and hands-on experiences and custom orders …

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Example: Vine Craft Experience We gather materials from the mountains and challenge ourselves to create vine crafts. ※Other Woodworking Experience, Beach Crafts, etc.

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Experience Sueyaki pottery making that showcases the robust character of materials from Sueyama—a region renowned for its abundant high-quality clay and history as a Sueiki pottery production center for nearly 1,000 years.

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The temperature difference in the seawater created by the winter cold in the sea off Wakasa, Japan's northernmost aquaculture site, produces pearls with a fine, deep luster, giving rise to the unique beauty of Wakasa Pearls. In the handmade jewelry…

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