Pottery Spots in Shiga Area

Area

Shiga
- Japan
- Hokkaido / Tohoku
  
  Hokkaido
  
  Aomori
  
  Iwate
  
  Miyagi
  
  Akita
  
  Yamagata
  
  Fukushima
- Kanto
  
  Ibaraki
  
  Tochigi
  
  Gunma
  
  Saitama
  
  Chiba
  
  Tokyo
  
  Kanagawa
- Koshinetsu / Hokuriku
  
  Niigata
  
  Toyama
  
  Ishikawa
  
  Fukui
  
  Yamanashi
  
  Nagano
- Tokai
  
  Gifu
  
  Shizuoka
  
  Aichi
  
  Mie
- Kinki
  
  Shiga
  
  Kyoto
  
  Osaka
  
  Hyogo
  
  Nara
  
  Wakayama
- Chugoku
  
  Tottori
  
  Shimane
  
  Okayama
  
  Hiroshima
  
  Yamaguchi
- Shikoku
  
  Tokushima
  
  Kagawa
  
  Ehime
  
  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
  Saga
  
  Nagasaki
  
  Kumamoto
  
  Oita
  
  Miyazaki
  
  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Travel / Tourism

Factory / Workshop

Pottery

Sotoen

4.5

2 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Pref. Koukashi Shigarakichounagano 1423-13

A Shigaraki ware studio located in Nagano Shigaraki-cho, Koka City. The studio sells Shigaraki ware using 11 chambers, 30-meter-long climbing kiln, one of the largest in Japan, built along the slop of a mountain. The studio also holds ceramics classes and classes on making your very own ceramic tanuki raccoon figurine (reservation is required).

お忙しい中、無料で案内して下さいました。信楽で現在ものぼり窯で焼いているのはこちらだけとか。1300度で7日間から9日間火を焚き続けるとか。圧巻です。作品も素敵でした。手造り教室もありました。
Bungoro Gama

4.0

1 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 1087

A 15-minute drive from the Shigaraki Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway. This longstanding pottery studio has been in business since 1862. The studio was established by Bungoro Okuda I when he built a climbing kiln where the pottery studio still stands today. Bungo Okuda, the current and fifth generation head of the studio specializes in making ceramic bathtubs and other large pottery pieces using a potter's wheel, while his younger brother, Akira Okuda, makes simple, modern, and highly utilitarian tableware which blends in with both Japanese and Western decors. The studio's gallery, Bungoro Soko, which operates out of a remodeled warehouse, displays and sells pieces by Akira and can also be rented out for use as an exhibition space or for other events.

ここでは信楽の窯元散策路にある窯元のひとつである文五郎窯の作品を購入することができます。文五郎窯の器はどれもデザインがシンプルで美しく、和食でも洋食でも日常の食卓に使いやすそうなものばかりでした。窓の外にそよぐ竹林を活かした作りの美しいギャラリーです。

Shiga

Otsu Shigaraki / Koka Konan / Kusatsu Omihachiman Koto / Hikone Kohoku / Nagahama Kosei / Takashima

Travel / Tourism Factory / Workshop Pottery

Shiga Areas

Visitors to Shiga prefecture are almost always hopping east across the prefectural border from Kyoto, and they are almost certainly Lake Biwa-bound. Covering an area of 670 square kilometers, Lake Biwa makes up the bulk of Shiga prefecture, with beautiful lakeside paths that offer myriad walking and cycling opportunities, connecting a string of museums, shrines, and picturesque views that finally lead you to Hikone Castle on the eastern side of the lake.