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One-day Traditional Seto Pottery Course

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One-day Traditional Seto Pottery Course Total Distance：6.4 km Total Time：4 hr.: Visit one of two major kiln areas in Aichi: Seto City. With 1,000 years of pottery, stoneware, and ceramics history and culture, Seto is a handicraft hot spot. Pottery and china from Seto became so famous that even now, all kiln fired items and ceramics are known as <span style="font-style:italic;">Seto-yaki</span>", or <span style="font-style:italic;">Seto-mono</span>", meaning "Seto ware". See and experience it for yourself.

Course Contents

Start at Seto-Gura Museum → (Approx. 3-min. walk) → Maneki-Neko Museum → (Approx. 10-min. walk) → Kamagaki no Komichi Street → (Approx. 20-min. car or taxi ride) → Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum

Day 1

Seto CitySeto-Gura Museum

See traditional handcrafted pottery: Discover the wide range and quality of traditional pottery made in Seto, and see what the town looked like in its heyday at a life-sized reproduction. Quality pottery and ceramics are available for purchase in the Seto-Gura Ceramics Plaza. See more >

Seto CityManeki-Neko Museum

Get lucky at the Maneki-Neko—or Beckoning Cat—Museum: See Japan’s largest collection of maneki-neko figures. Beckoning cats are statues with one raised paw as if to beckon in fortune and are widely popular across Japan. Purchase some luck of your own, or paint your own original lucky cat here! See more >

Seto CityKamagaki no Komichi Street

Walk the Kamagaki no Komichi Street: Follow this 400-meter-long route and enjoy the scenes of local produce put to work in an interesting way. See how tiles, pipes, bottles and pots are used along the road. Galleries, museums, and traditional old homes too line the way. See more >

Seto CityAichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum

See the Seto ware and then make your own: Enjoy the exhibitions of traditional pottery and a museum shop, rest in the tearoom, then put aside about two hours to make your own traditional teacup using local clay! See more >

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