Pottery making experience
The Fukui Prefectural Pottery Museum is equipped with a workshop
providing you with an experience of making your own Echizen
pottery pieces. We recommend that you challenge yourself to
create your own Echizen pottery piece! (Reservation required
for participation in any of the courses)
| Courses |
Contents |
 Hand
making course |
1000yen
including 1kg clay
Acceptance time
Part of morning 9:00AM-10:00AM
Part of afternoon 1:00PM-2:00PM
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| Painting
course |
400yen
for tea bowl/1000yen
for flower base
Other options also available
|
Electric
potter's
wheel course |
100yen
for 1kg clay
100yen for 1-hour use of
potter's wheel
900 yen for pottery work firing
|
●To apply for any of the above courses
or further
information, contact Fukui Prefectural Pottery Museum
at 0778-32-2174. |
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Bamboo
shoot digging,
cooking and eating experience
Known for their high quality, "Hirono","Kadanji","Kashidu"
area's bamboo shoots are sweet in taste with little harshness,
becoming delicacies for the table in spring. The town
organizes a tour of bamboo shoot digging to provide many
of you with an experience to dig and eat such delicious
bamboo shoots as schedule below. It would be a great experience
for you to participate in this tour.
| Period |
April 29,May 3-5
10:00am |
Participation
fee |
3,000yen per person |
●Enquiry
Omoidena
at 0778-32-3545 |
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Climbing
kiln firing experience
The village organizes a program to provide you with an
experience of using its municipally operated ascending
kiln to fire pottery pieces of your own making. The program
also includes the holding of an exhibition of your pottery
pieces thus completed. The program has recently won popularity,
because it lets one realize the real taste of pottery
art through a series of operations involved in it.
| process |
Shaping clay into
ware, Placing ware in kiln,Kiln firing,Removing
ware from kiln,
Exhibition of ware |
| Period |
June to December |
| Participation fee |
10,000yen per person |
| No. of participants to be accepted |
100 |
●Enquiry
Echizen
ware Promotion Room at TEL.0778-32-3200 |
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