Value Village
Kilns, weavers, breweries, blacksmiths, small local workshops — we have gathered the makers of each region. Large mass-production factories, power plants and dams, public research institutes and museums are not shown here (you can find them in the full list of entries).
2,805 craft and industry entries. Industries other than traditional crafts are included. This is not a list of hands-on programs; whether visitors are accepted, fees and booking contacts have not been confirmed.
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Food distribution & markets
The central wholesale market of Morioka. As an inland market, it handles fish from the Sanriku coast and fruit and vegetables from the prefecture.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Fisheries & market logistics
The fish market of Ofunato. It handles landings of Pacific saury and mackerel.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Miso & fermentation experience
A koji shop in Hachimantai. Visitors can prepare rice koji and experience making miso.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Nambu ironware & casting
A museum attached to a Nanbu ironware factory. Visitors can see the process from casting mold to finished iron kettle.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Nambu ironware & metal casting
A Nanbu ironware workshop in Morioka. Founded in 1625, it has passed down metal-casting techniques from generation to generation.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Nambu ironware & design
A Nanbu ironware workshop in Morioka. It pursues forms suited to everyday use and incorporates contemporary design.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Nambu ironware & casting
A Nanbu ironware maker in Mizusawa, Oshu. A direct-sales shop is attached to the factory.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Casting & heat treatment
A foundry in Oshu. It makes ironware using its pouring and heat-treatment techniques.
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Furniture & joinery fittings
The cooperative for Iwayado tansu chests. Nanbu iron fittings are hammered onto a zelkova wood body.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Furniture & woodwork
A woodworking shop making Iwayado tansu chests. It combines joinery, lacquering and metal fittings.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Lacquerware & decoration
Hidehira-nuri lacquerware from Hiraizumi. It is characterized by the Genji-gumo cloud pattern, in which diamond shapes of gold leaf are set on the lacquer.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Japanese lacquer & lacquer tapping
Lacquer sap is tapped at Joboji in Ninohe. Most of the domestic lacquer used to restore National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties comes from here.
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Lacquerware & training of craftspeople
A lacquerware workshop in Hachimantai. It also serves as a place for training makers.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Woolen textiles & handwork
Homespun from Morioka. Wool is spun by hand and woven by hand. It began after the war as work for women.
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Woolen textiles & dyeing and weaving
A homespun maker in Iwate. It handles everything from dyeing to weaving.
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Pottery & making experience
Pottery in Kuji. It fires Kokuji ware, which is coated with an amber-colored glaze, and visitors can try making pottery.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Pottery
A pottery studio in Hanamaki that fires Dai ware. It specializes in white porcelain with a translucent quality.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Folk toys
Folk toys of Hanamaki. Clay dolls and kokeshi are made. Hanamaki dolls began in the Edo period under the influence of Kyoto's Fushimi dolls.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Rural crafts & hands-on experience
Straw craft in Tono. Visitors can try weaving items such as the horse-shaped Chagu Chagu Umakko.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Vine craft
Akebi vine craft from Nishiwaga. Vines gathered in the mountains are woven into baskets.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Wild mountain grapes & wine
Wild grape wine from Kuzumaki. The town started it as a third-sector, public-private enterprise.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Wine & fruit processing
A winery in Hanamaki. It ferments wild grapes and fruit.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Sake & craft beer
A sake brewery in Ichinoseki. It makes both sake and craft beer, and opens its brewery buildings to visitors.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
Sake & brewing
A sake brewery in Morioka. You can tour a brewing storehouse completed in 1988, where brewing tools remain.
Hands-on visits and tours: not confirmed
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