Workshop Spots in Kagoshima Area

  • Terubozu
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    Travel / Tourism
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Yamatoson Kuninao 73
    This log cabin-style building facing the Kuninao Coast is both a cafe and plant-based dyeing shop. You can taste the specialties of Yamato Village in an atmosphere where you can fully feel the slower atmosphere of the island. You can also enjoy the taste of nature as the vegetables used in the dishes are from their organic home-grown vegetable garden. The owner is an artist who has had a solo exhibition in New York, and the shop offers dyeing experiences besides exhibiting and selling a variety of plant-based dyed products.

    座敷席もあり子連れでも大丈夫ですが、量が少ないのでオススメしません。一人でやられているようで、デザートを食べに行くならいいと思います。

  • Satsuma Vidro Artcrafts
    Travel / Tourism
    Kagoshima Satsuma-gun Satsumacho Nagano 5665-5 Kannondaki Park
    This Satsuma Kiriko cut glass gallery and workshop is surrounded by rich nature inside Kannondaki Park. It makes and sells Satsuma Kiriko, a style of cut glass created in the Satsuma Domain near at the end of the Edo period. Satsuma Kiriko is characterized by the appealing graduations between the clear glass and the vibrant colored glass created by hand by skilled artisans. The attached workshop offers glasswork experiences including glass cutting, sandblasting, and wind chime painting.
  • Well Hands
    Travel / Tourism
    Kagoshima Hioki-shi Higashiichikicho Miyama 1262-8
    "This blown glass studio and adjoining gallery is located in Miyama, an area known for its Satsuma porcelain, three minutes from the Miyama Interchange on the Minamikyushu Expressway via Prefectural Route 24. Sunlight floods into the gallery space via its large windows, and inside are displayed a variety of items created by artisan Eriko Ide. The gallery's most popular product is the ""lace glass"" paperweights, which consist of dainty lace encased in transparent glass. The gallery also sells everyday glasses and plates, as well as smaller items such as chopstick rests perfect for giving as a little souvenir. Depending on the time of year, the facility also offers studio tours."

Kagoshima Areas

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Over 100 active volcanoes across Kagoshima make it one of the Japan's most exciting prefectures. The prefectural capital, Kagoshima city, looks out to one of the prefecture’s most spectacular volcanoes, Sakurajima, an island of its own that can be visited and seen close up or admired from afar, with the promise of breathtaking sunsets complete with frequent puffs of smoke and ash. Down the Satsuma Peninsula, the most southerly part of mainland Japan, waterfalls, sand onsen, and fascinating history await, while Kagoshima's abundance of satsuma imo (sweet potato) provide a wholesome snack as well as one of Japan's favourite drinks - shochu.

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