Okuda Chuzaemon Gama Shigaraki Tougeimura
Shigaraki Tougeimura (pottery village) is a facility that houses old-style kilns, workshops, display rooms and a gift shop. The old pottery founded in 1888 is open to the public for free. Visitors can shop, watch old kilns and try their hands at pottery.
- Name
- Okuda Chuzaemon Gama Shigaraki Tougeimura
- Category of Industry
- Exhibitions
- Pottery classes: visitors can choose from several courses including hand-twisting, electric pottery wheel (reservations required), painting pottery or making Tanuki (Japanese raccoon dog) statues or lamps. Visitors can observe a 22-meter-long, multi-chambered climbing kiln.
- Touring procedures
- Admission
- Free
- Attendance figure
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1回：400
1日：400 - Hours
- 9:00 to 17:00
- Amount of time required
- 60 minutes
- Closed
- The New Year holiday period
- Parking
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large buses : 15
passenger cars : 50 - Shopping and food
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Shopping : No
Food : Yes (Reservations required) - Categories of visitors
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(Acceptance of people in the same category of industry : ) - Available service for guests from overseas
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Guide : ―
Brochures : ― - Reservation
- One week before the tour
- Reservation number
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TEL : 0748-82-0522
FAX : 0748-82-3070 - Access
- Public Transportation: 15 minutes walk from Shigaraki Station on the Shigaraki Kogen Railway line/ Car: approx. 10 minutes from the Shigaraki Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway
- Address
- 1131 Nagano, Shigaraki-cho, Koka City, Shiga 529-1851
- Inquiry address
- 1131 Nagano, Shigaraki-cho, Koka City, Shiga 529-1851
- Applications and inquiries
- Fujii, Okuda
- Number
- 0748-82-0522
- URL
- http://www.biwako.ne.jp/~shiga-to