Echizen Pottery and Echizen Chest Tour with Japanese Sake Tasting
- 8 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Mobile ticket
Highlights
The Echizen region of Fukui Prefecture has been designated as one of the "Six Ancient Kilns of Japan," and is well known for Echizen lacquerware, pottery, and cutlery. Come and try to make your own sake cup with the guidance of a craftsperson. Afterwards, go onto taste the region's traditional dishes at a soba restaurant and modern bar, try sake at a local sake brewery, and visit a chest-making workshop.
Inclusions
What's included
- Factory Tour fee
- Lunch
- Transportation from JR Fukui station to JR Echizen-Takefu satation
- English Speaking Guide fee
- Workshop Experience fee
What's not
- Beverage fee
- Private transportation
- WiFi on board
Itinerary
Visit Ryusengama, where Echizen Usukuchi cups are made This time, I will make my own sake cup.
Juwari Soba Daikonsha in Echizen Pottery Village You can enjoy soba made by hand by the host.
Katayama Sake Brewery, a 250-year-old sake brewery Learn about the process of making sake on a sake brewery tour
At the Koyanagi Tansu store, you can tour an actual chest of drawers making workshop. You can enjoy the world of chest of drawers filled with local techniques.
Uotome's restaurant bar has a modern atmosphere. Katayama Sake Brewery's sake and Ootome's original snacks are exquisite.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Meet in front of the dinosaur monument at the east exit of Fukui Station.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 8 travellers
- Operated by
- Craft Invitation
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
How it compares in Japan, outside the cities
- Its from-price is 256% above the median of the 1684 experiences we list in Japan, outside the cities.
- It is longer than most of them.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
Special offers in Japan, outside the cities
Was/now prices come from the operator, never from us.
