IshikawaArt & CraftsNoto
Kiriko Festivals of Noto
Giant lacquered and gilded lanterns, up to fifteen metres tall, carried each summer by over 200 hamlets.
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FukuiArt & CraftsEchizen
Echizen Washi
Held to be Japan's oldest paper district, and the only one with a shrine to the deity of paper itself.
Echizen
Echizen Washi Village
A place to try papermaking. At the Udatsu Craft Museum, you can watch craftsmen demonstrate the work.
Echizen
Echizen Chests
Nailless joinery dressed in heavy iron mounts, as befits a blacksmithing town.
FukuiArt & CraftsEchizen
Echizen Ware
One of Japan's six ancient kilns; unglazed, its surface coloured only by falling ash, and once shipped all along the north coast.
FukuiMuseumsEchizen
Fukui Ceramics Museum
On a hill where over 200 medieval kilns were found, lining up the great storage jars by century.
FukuiMuseumsSabae
Glasses Museum
Over 90 percent of Japan's spectacle frames come from here - a winter side job that became a world titanium centre.
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Wakasa Agate Carving
Agate heated until its colour changes, then carved and polished - a technique surviving only here.
Fujikawaguchiko
Yo Yuki Museum
Cloth dolls of such density they read as sculpture, by a maker who works only in cotton.
YamanashiArt & CraftsKofu
Koshu Inden Deerskin
Lacquer patterned onto deerskin, and a smoke-dyeing method kept as oral secret for four centuries.
Kofu
Koshu Crystal Carving
Crystal from the local gorge carved and polished by hand; the stone ran out but the skill founded a jewellery industry.
Kofu
Yamanashi Jewelry Museum
A third of Japan's jewellery is made here; cutting and setting are demonstrated in front of visitors.
YamanashiArt & CraftsNirasaki
Nirasaki Omura Art Museum
Founded by a Nobel laureate with his own funds, and collecting women artists exclusively - rare in Japan.
YamanashiArt & CraftsMinobu
Nishijima Washi
Paper for calligraphy, made since the 1500s and still varied sheet by sheet to control how ink bleeds.
YamanashiArt & CraftsIchikawamisato
Paper and Fireworks of Ichikawa
A paper town that also makes fireworks - the shells are wound from paper, so the two trades grew together.
Koshu
Stonemasons of Enzan
Stone that weathers to rust-red, quarried for gardens; the craft includes choosing and setting it, not only cutting.
Minobu
Buddhist Implements of Minobu
A temple-gate trade in Buddhist implements, the beads turned and the tassels braided by separate hands.
Kofu
Jewellery Quarter of Kofu
A jewellery quarter grown out of crystal carving, its cutting, setting and lapidary studios packed into the city.
Kofu
Joinery of Kai
Mulberry from the silk fields was worked into furniture once the trees were finished - a cycle of material and craft.
NaganoMuseumsMatsumoto
Matsumoto Folkcraft Museum
Founded with one merchant's own money and one line of policy: beautiful things are beautiful.
Matsumoto
Craft Fair Matsumoto
The original Japanese craft fair, which established makers selling their own work and set the pattern for the rest.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Kitazawa Museum of Art
One of the world's great collections of Art Nouveau glass, including major works by Emile Galle.
NaganoArt & CraftsSuwa
Sunritz Hattori Museum of Arts
Holds Fujisan, the only tea bowl by Hon'ami Koetsu designated a National Treasure, shown about once a year.
Nagiso
Nagiso Woodturning
Kiso hardwoods turned on the lathe and often left unlacquered, so choosing the timber is the real skill.