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- Seto ceramics and autumn leaf course Total Distance：18.3 km Total Time：6 hrs.
- Fancy a stroll throughout one of Aichi Prefecture's pottery capitals? Seto City extends a hand for you to visit its beautiful scenery and experience its rich pottery culture. Seto's handcrafts take a naturalistic approach to art and are both functional and beautiful. Enjoy Japan's crafts while taking in the surrounding natural fall beauty as you embark on this short, cultural day trip.
Course Contents
Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum → (15-min. taxi ride) → Seto-Gura Museum → (3-min. walk) → Maneki-neko Museum → (10-min. walk) → Kamagaki no Komichi Street → (20-min. taxi ride) → Iwayado Park
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- Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum
- Enjoy the exhibitions of traditional pottery and the museum shop, take a break in the tearoom, then put aside about two hours to make your own traditional teacup using local clay! See more
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- Seto-Gura Museum
- Discover the wide range and quality of traditional pottery made in Seto, and see what the community looked like in its heyday in a life-sized reproduction. Shop for quality pottery and ceramics in the Seto-Gura ceramics plaza. See more
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- Maneki-neko Museum
- “Paws” a while at Japan’s largest collection of maneki-neko figures. Maneki-neko are beckoning cats, and life a paw to invite in prosperity and fortune to your house or business. Purchase some luck of your own or paint your own original lucky cat. You’ll feel lucky just by coming here! See more
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- Kamagaki no Komichi Street
- Follow this 400-meter long route and enjoy the scenes of local produce put to work in an interesting way—as retaining walls along both sides of the path. See how tiles, pipes, bottles, and pots decorate the roadside for a unique urban landscape. Galleries, museums, and traditional old homes guide the way. See more
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- Iwayado Park
- One of Japan’s best autumn leaf viewing spots! Popular year-round, particularly in the spring for cherry blossom and the gorgeous leaves of autumn, see the rivers, waterfalls and a hidden shrine under a huge boulder grotto! See more
