The new Craft Invitation course is now on sale!
"Craft Invitation" has launched a new course to help you enjoy the Echizen Sabae area even more! This time we will be introducing a tour where you can enjoy activities that are perfect for the upcoming season, as well as a tour of Echizen ware that has never been seen before. Here, we will give you an overview of the tour, so please refer to each tour for details.Craft experience pagePlease check it out.
Private Echizen Lacquerware Experience and Cycling Tour
The Kawada district of Sabae City is a town of Echizen lacquerware with a history of 1500 years. Starting with the Lacquerware Shrine (Shikiyama Shrine), which enshrines the god of lacquerware, you can also tour workshops led by craftsmen and even try your hand at lacquer painting. Explore the roots of Echizen lacquerware on a lacquered bicycle, ``URUSHI BIKE.''
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・Craft Invitation Cycling with the original “URUSHI BIKE”
・Visit the Lacquerware Shrine (Shikiyama Shrine), which enshrines the god of lacquerware.
・Visit a lacquer workshop where you can learn about the history and process of Echizen lacquerware
・Lacquer painting experience using craftsmen's tools at Nishikikori Lacquerware Shop
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Time required: about 3 hours
Price: 15,000 yen/person (tax included)
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Private Echizen Lacquerware Experience and Cycling Tour
https://craftinvitation.jp/workshop/cit1003/
Private ART & CRAFT Tour in Echizen Pottery Village
Echizen Town, where the sticky, iron-rich potter's clay is produced, is the hometown of Echizen Pottery, which has been designated as a Japanese heritage site as one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns.
This time, we will start at the Echizen Pottery Village, where artworks by Taro Okamoto and others are lined up, experience a tea ceremony where you can feel the ``tea culture'' of Tenshin Okakura, and take a close look at the handiwork of artisans at an Echizen ware workshop.
Sometimes it's simple pottery for everyday use, sometimes it's surprising works of art. Why not enjoy Echizen Pottery, which has many different faces, with all five senses?
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・Learn about the history of Echizen ware from the Heian period at the Echizen Old Kiln Museum
・Appreciating art at the "Ceramic Sculpture Plaza" where works by Taro Okamoto and others are exhibited
・Workshop tour guided by a craftsman at an Echizen ware pottery
・Matcha experience where you can feel Okakura Tenshin's "tea culture"
▼Tour overview
Time required: about 3 hours
Price: 15,000 yen/person (tax included)