Echizen Pottery and Echizen Chest Tour with Japanese Sake Tasting
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.
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Echizen Pottery and Echizen Chest Tour with Japanese Sake Tasting
What's included in Echizen Pottery and Echizen Chest Tour with Japanese Sake Tasting
(Subject to Option Inclusions)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
Inclusions
- Factory Tour fee
- Lunch
- Transportation from JR Fukui station to JR Echizen-Takefu satation
- English Speaking Guide fee
- Workshop Experience fee
- Beverage fee
- Private transportation
- WiFi on board
- 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
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting Points
- Meet in front of the dinosaur monument at the east exit of Fukui Station.
End Points
- This tour ends at JR Echizen Takefu station, NOT included transportation from JR Echizen Takefu station to Fukui or Tsuruga station. If you will back to Fukui or Tsuruga station, please buy the ticket by your self.