Feel like a glasses craftsman! Children's glasses making experience

Recommended points

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  Explore the workshop of Plus Jack, which manufactures eyeglasses, for an unique adventure!
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  You can make your own original glasses from a wide variety of parts with different colors and shapes.
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  A special pair of glasses that is assembled with your own hands!

About the Tour

• Highlights
• Tour Contents
• Detailed information

• Highlights

  Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture is the city of glasses! Once you get off Sabae Station, you will be greeted by eyeglass motifs all over the city. Plus Jack is a unique workshop in Sabae where all the processes of eyeglasses are produced in-house.

   

  
  Plus Jack's own brand glasses has the unique feature of their glasses temples (the part that goes on the ear) being made of a special material. Designed to bend to fit any bone structure, you won't feel the stress of wearing glasses.

   

  
  They are also famous for pin badges made from acetate, the material used to make eyeglasses, and "effe", a disaster prevention whistle that is useful for mountain climbing and disasters. It is a workshop that values ​​the creation of products that are close to people and help people.

• Tour Contents

  We have prepared a semi-order eyeglass making experience with the hope that even children who will wear eyeglasses for the first time will like eyeglasses. Here you can experience part of the process of actually making eyeglasses.

  
  In this experience, it is also possible for parents and children to make matching glasses. If you are interested in making matching glasses, please feel free to let us know when you apply.

   

  When you arrive Plus Jack, you will first visit the factory. It is an adventure to find out about where glasses are made. You can also see the handiwork of craftsmen up close.

   

  
  You might even meet an little elf who makes glasses.

   

  After a brief tour, the process of making your eyeglasses begins! Customize your glasses to your liking by choosing the shape, size, and color of each part, such as the frame, temples, and temple tips. The real pleasure of this experience is that you get to do things that you can't do through normal shopping! For example, you can even change the color of the temple and temple tips on the left and right to be different.

   

  

  After choosing the parts, you can also experience the work of screwing the parts together. If it is difficult for small children, the parents can lend a hand.

   

  

  Due to the unexpectedly detailed work, children take it serious! They will get to experience how it feels like to be an optician. The glasses will be adjusted by the craftsman at the end and handed over on the spot.

   

  The experience of making eyeglasses will be an opportunity to develop an attachment to them so that they will cherish them. Glasses to protect your child's precious eyes. Why not give your child a special experience where they can choose and create something themselves?

• Detailed information

  • Tour Details

    code:ICD0006
    Time required: about 1.5 hours (time required varies depending on the number of people)
    Minimum number of participants: 1 people
    Maximum number of people: 4 people * Up to 3 family attendants
    Tour conductor: none

  • Meeting place

    Meeting place	Plus Jack 〒916-0015 1-301-11 Miyukicho, Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture
    Access	If you come by car 15 minutes from Hokuriku Expressway Sabae IC (parking available) By train 15 minute walk from JR Kitasabae Station
    Parking	Available

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  • Scheduled date

    This experience is on a request basis.
    After confirming your purchase, we will ask you for your desired date and make adjustments.

  • Course content

    1) Factory tour
    2) Selection of parts
    3) Glasses making experience

  • Included

    ・Experience fee
    ・Material cost (glass frames only, lenses not included)
    ·Delivery charge
    　*Tour conductor and transportation are not included.

  • Cancellation Policy

    ・Cancellation from 3 day ~ day prior of the tour date: 50% of the tour price refunded
    ・Cancellation on the day or non-participation without contact ・Cancellation after the start: No refund
    　* If it becomes difficult to participate on the day before or on the day of the experience, please contact the following experience directly.
    　　Contact: Plus Jack TEL 0778-53-1885

  • Precautions

    ・We may guide you together with people from other groups.
    ・Children over 3 years old can participate (accompanied by a guardian).
    ・Only eyeglass frames can be made in the experience.
    ・If you wish to insert a lens, please follow the steps below.
    　1. After applying in advance, please get a prescription from an ophthalmologist before coming to the experience, two weeks before the experience date
    Please take a photo of the prescription and send it to us.
    　2. We will reply as soon as we can confirm. If you do not receive a reply, please contact us again.
    Thank you very much.
    3. We will purchase the lens in advance with Plus Jack and have it prepared.
    In the same way as the semi-order frame experience, the lenses are put in at the end and handed over.
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    ・An additional charge from 8,000 yen will be charged for the lenses.
    The price will change.
    ・No prescription is required for lenses that do not require prescription. Please let us know if you would like this when you apply.
    ・Even if you cancel after purchasing the lens, the lens price cannot be refunded.

  • Inquiry

    General Incorporated Association SOE
    Tel: 0778-78-9967
    mail: info@soe.or.jp