Fukuoka directory

Industry & Tech ／ Food & Drink 19 entries

• Hiyoko Honpo Yoshinodo Honami Plant

  ひよ子本舗吉野堂穂波工場
  Fukuoka / Iizuka ／ Confectionery & production tours

  A factory that makes Hiyoko sweets. Tours are by reservation and include a tasting.

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• Yamaya Communications Head Office Plant

  やまやコミュニケーションズ本社工場
  Fukuoka / Sasaguri ／ Mentaiko & food processing

  A head office plant for mentaiko and food processing. As a Fukuoka mentaiko maker, it ships nationwide.

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• Industrial History of the Former Asahi Breweries Hakata Brewery Site

  アサヒビール博多工場跡地産業史
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Beer & industrial transition

  The site of a beer brewery that once stood in Hakata. It traces how an industrial site turned into part of the city.

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• Kirin Brewery Fukuoka Plant

  キリンビール福岡工場
  Fukuoka / Asakura ／ Beer & factory tours

  A beer brewery in Asakura. Visitors can tour everything from brewing to bottling.

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• Jokyu Shoyu Brewery

  ジョーキュウ醤油蔵
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Soy sauce & urban brewing

  A soy sauce maker with its brewery in the urban area of Fukuoka. It continues to brew in the middle of the city.

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• Nibishi Shoyu Koga Plant

  ニビシ醤油古賀工場
  Fukuoka / Koga ／ Soy sauce & fermentation

  A soy sauce plant in Koga. It brews Kyushu's sweet soy sauce. It handles the fermentation process.

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• Ichiran no Mori Itoshima

  一蘭の森糸島
  Fukuoka / Itoshima ／ Tonkotsu ramen & noodle making

  A facility for noodle making and flavor research for tonkotsu ramen. It is in Itoshima.

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• Chidoriya Honke Iizuka Main Store

  千鳥屋本家飯塚本店
  Fukuoka / Iizuka ／ Confectionery & coal mining culture

  A confectionery shop in Iizuka. It grew up with the gift-giving culture of Chikuho, which prospered on coal mining.

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• Kitaya Head Office Brewery

  喜多屋本社蔵
  Fukuoka / Yame ／ Sake & shochu

  A sake brewery in Yame. It makes both sake and shochu.

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• Josuian Factory Direct Store Koga Kobo

  如水庵工場直売処古賀工房
  Fukuoka / Koga ／ Tsukushi Mochi & confectionery manufacturing

  The direct sales shop of a confectionery factory that makes Chikushi Mochi and other sweets. It is located in Koga.

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• Yamanokotobuki Shuzo

  山の壽酒造
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Sake & fermentation

  A sake brewery in Kurume. It uses rice from the Chikugo Plain and centers on fermentation technology.

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• Yamaguchi Aburaya Fukutaro Soeda Town Menbei Factory

  山口油屋福太郎添田町めんべい工場
  Fukuoka / Soeda ／ Confectionery & factory tours

  A factory that makes Menbei. Located in Soeda Town, it accepts visitors for tours.

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• Shobunsu Okawa Head Office

  庄分酢大川本社
  Fukuoka / Okawa ／ Vinegar & static fermentation

  A vinegar brewery in Okawa. It keeps to static fermentation, a method that takes time.

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• Mori no Kura

  杜の蔵
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Sake & breweries

  A sake brewery in Kurume. It brews with underground water from the Mino mountain range and local rice.

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• Ishimura Manseido Main Store and Factory Culture

  石村萬盛堂本店・工場文化
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Tsuru no Ko & confectionery

  A long-established maker of the marshmallow confection 'Tsuru no Ko'. It is regarded as the originator of White Day.

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• Shinozaki Asakura Sake Brewery

  篠崎朝倉酒蔵
  Fukuoka / Asakura ／ Sake & amazake

  A sake brewery in Asakura. Besides sake it also makes amazake. It uses underground water from the Chikugo River as its brewing water.

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• Beniotome Shuzo Mino Distillery

  紅乙女酒造耳納蒸留所
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Sesame shochu & distilling

  It distills shochu made from sesame. It stands partway up the Mino mountain range.

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• Wakatakeya Sake Brewery

  若竹屋酒造場
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Sake & Genroku-era brewery

  A sake brewery in Kurume. Founded in 1699, its Genroku-era brewery building still stands today.

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• Takatori Ware

  高取焼
  Fukuoka / Nogata, Toho and other areas ／ Pottery & tea ceramics

  Tea ceramics counted among the Seven Kilns of Enshu. Distinguished by the use of different glazes on one piece and by thin walls.

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Industry & Tech ／ Crafts 27 entries

• TOTO Kokura Plant No. 1

  TOTO小倉第一工場
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Sanitary ware & ceramic industry

  A plant that fires sanitary ware. TOTO was founded in Kokura in 1917.

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• Asahi Shoes Kurume Plant

  アサヒシューズ久留米工場
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Shoes & sewing and vulcanizing

  A shoe factory in Kurume. In a place that started out making tabi, it does sewing and the vulcanization of rubber soles.

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• Toyota Motor Kyushu Kanda Plant

  トヨタ自動車九州苅田工場
  Fukuoka / Kanda ／ Engines & casting

  A plant responsible for casting and machining engines. It is close to Kanda Port.

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• Moonstar Kurume Head Office Plant

  ムーンスター久留米本社工場
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Shoes & rubber processing

  It began in Kurume with tabi and moved on to rubber-soled shoes. It carries on the technique of vulcanization.

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• Agano Ware

  上野焼
  Fukuoka / Fukuchi ／ Pottery & nationally designated craft

  Pottery that began as the official kiln of the Kokura domain. Copper and iron glazes produce greens and browns.

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• Agano Ware Ceramics Hall

  上野焼陶芸館
  Fukuoka / Fukuchi ／ Pottery & production-area exhibition

  An exhibition hall in the Agano ware production area. Visitors can see works from the kilns and the history.

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• Kurume Kasuri

  久留米絣
  Fukuoka / Kurume, Hirokawa ／ Kasuri weaving & nationally designated craft

  The threads are first bound to resist the dye, dipped dozens of times in indigo vats, and then woven with the patterns aligned. It was devised by Inoue Den around 1800.

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• Yame Handmade Washi

  八女手すき和紙
  Fukuoka / Yame ／ Paper mulberry & handmade washi paper

  Kozo bark is boiled with wood ash, and the paper is made one sheet at a time without chemicals. It has been handed down in Chikugo since the Muromachi period.

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• Yame Lanterns

  八女提灯
  Fukuoka / Yame ／ Bamboo ribs & nationally designated craft

  Because a single thin bamboo strip is wound in a spiral around a mold, there are no joints. They keep their shape even when folded.

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• Yame Stone Lanterns

  八女石灯ろう
  Fukuoka / Yame ／ Stonework & nationally designated craft

  Stone lanterns carved from Aso welded tuff. The stone is soft and easy to work, and moss takes to it readily.

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• Yame Fukushima Buddhist Altars

  八女福島仏壇
  Fukuoka / Yame ／ Buddhist altars & nationally designated craft

  Buddhist altars decorated with gold leaf and maki-e. Yame is the production area, and separate artisans handle the wooden base, the inner shrine, the carving and the lacquering.

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• Yame Bamboo Crafts

  八女竹細工
  Fukuoka / Yame ／ Bamboo material & basketry

  Baskets and strainers woven from split madake bamboo. Yame is a source of good-quality bamboo, and they have been made as everyday goods.

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• Hakata Okiage

  博多おきあげ
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Padded cloth pictures & festival crafts

  Padded cloth pictures in which fabric is plumped with cotton and attached to a board. They have been used as decorations for festivals such as Gion Yamakasa.

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• Hakata Dolls

  博多人形
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Unglazed clay dolls & nationally designated craft

  Unglazed clay dolls are coated with gofun and finished with painted colors. They are said to have originated in the castle town of the Kuroda domain in the early Edo period.

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• Hakata Doll Hall Shogetsudo

  博多人形会館松月堂
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Dolls & making exhibition

  A display and sales space run by a Hakata doll studio. Visitors can watch the painting up close.

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• Hakata-ori Culture at the Hakata Traditional Performing Arts Center

  博多伝統芸能館の博多織文化
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Textiles & urban culture

  A facility that stages the traditional performing arts of Hakata. Geigi dances and Hakata-ori obi can be seen in the same place.

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• Hakata Papier-Mache

  博多張子
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Papier-mache & folk toys

  Folk toys formed by pasting layers of washi over a mold. They have long been made as good-luck charms for Hakata's festivals.

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• Hakata Bentwood Ware

  博多曲物
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Woodwork & bentwood ware

  Thin boards of cedar and cypress are bent into tubs and containers. No nails are used; they are fastened with cherry bark.

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• Hakata Spinning Tops

  博多独楽
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Wood lathe & folk toys

  Tops turned on a lathe from wood fitted with a spindle. There are also large ones used for acrobatic performance.

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• Hakata-ori Textiles

  博多織
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Silk textiles & nationally designated craft

  A silk textile said to derive from techniques that Hakata merchants brought back from Song China in the Kamakura period. The warp threads are set densely, and thick weft threads raise the pattern. It is used mainly for obi.

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• Hakata-ori Craft Museum

  博多織工芸館
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Textiles & production-area exhibition

  It exhibits the history and tools of Hakata-ori and gives demonstrations of hand weaving. It is run by the cooperative and also carries products.

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• Hakata Scissors

  博多鋏
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Forging & blades

  Scissors in which blade and handle are forged as one piece. Skill is needed for the 'hineri', the twist that makes the blades meet.

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• Okawa Furniture

  大川家具
  Fukuoka / Okawa ／ Furniture & woodworking district

  A furniture production area that began with the skills of ship carpenters in the Muromachi period. Its output is the highest in Japan.

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• Okawa Kumiko

  大川組子
  Fukuoka / Okawa ／ Woodwork & joinery fittings

  A technique for interior fittings in which hundreds of small grooved pieces are interlocked to form geometric patterns, without nails or metal fittings.

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• Koishiwara Ware

  小石原焼
  Fukuoka / Toho ／ Pottery & nationally designated craft

  It uses Koishiwara clay and is patterned with tobikanna chatter marks and hakeme brush marks. Pottery esteemed by the Mingei movement.

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• Toho Village Koishiwara Ware Traditional Industry Hall

  東峰村小石原焼伝統産業会館
  Fukuoka / Toho ／ Pottery & production-area exhibition

  An exhibition hall in the Koishiwara ware production area. Works from the kilns are displayed together in one place.

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• Aso Cement Tagawa Plant

  麻生セメント田川工場
  Fukuoka / Tagawa ／ Cement & limestone

  A cement plant that uses limestone from Tagawa. The Aso Group has its origins in coal mining.

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Industry & Tech ／ Manufacturing & Technology 22 entries

• UBE Mitsubishi Cement Kyushu Plant Kanda Area

  UBE三菱セメント九州工場苅田地区
  Fukuoka / Kanda ／ Cement & resource circulation

  It makes cement from limestone and incorporates resource recycling, using waste as raw material and fuel.

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• Daihatsu Kyushu Kurume Plant

  ダイハツ九州久留米工場
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Engines & auto parts

  A Daihatsu engine and parts plant in Kurume.

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• Toyota Motor Kyushu Miyata Plant

  トヨタ自動車九州宮田工場
  Fukuoka / Miyawaka ／ Automobiles & Lexus production

  A plant that produces Lexus vehicles. Located in Miyata, it is the core of automobile production in Kyushu.

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• Toyota Motor Kyushu Kokura Plant

  トヨタ自動車九州小倉工場
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Hybrid components

  A plant that makes parts for hybrid vehicles. It is located in Kokura.

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• Bridgestone Kurume Plant

  ブリヂストン久留米工場
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Tires & rubber technology

  A plant near the place where Bridgestone was founded. It handles tire and rubber technology.

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• Bridgestone Amagi Plant

  ブリヂストン甘木工場
  Fukuoka / Asakura ／ Large tires & manufacturing

  A plant that makes large tires for construction and mining machinery.

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• Rohm Apollo Chikugo Plant

  ローム・アポロ筑後工場
  Fukuoka / Chikugo ／ Semiconductors & power devices

  A plant that makes semiconductors such as power devices. It is located in Chikugo.

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• Mitsui High-tec Head Office Plant

  三井ハイテック本社工場
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Precision dies & motor cores

  It holds a global position in precision dies for stamping motor cores.

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• Miyanohara Pit, Miike Coal Mine

  三池炭鉱宮原坑
  Fukuoka / Omuta ／ Coal mines & World Heritage

  The Miyanohara Pit of the Miike Coal Mine. Its Meiji-era winding engine house and shaft headframe remain, and it is inscribed as a World Cultural Heritage site.

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• Mitsubishi Chemical Kyushu Plant Fukuoka Area

  三菱ケミカル九州事業所福岡地区
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Chemicals & carbon materials

  A plant that handles chemical materials such as carbon fiber. It belongs to the lineage of the former Mitsubishi Kagaku.

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• Mitsubishi Electric Power Device Works

  三菱電機パワーデバイス製作所
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Power semiconductors

  A works that makes power semiconductors. It handles devices that control electric power.

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• Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery

  北九州イノベーションギャラリー
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Industrial technology & design

  A facility themed on industrial technology and design. It stands on the former site of the Yawata Steel Works.

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• Kitakyushu Eco-Town Center

  北九州市エコタウンセンター
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Recycling & environmental technology

  The information center for the Eco-Town, where recycling businesses are gathered. It arranges factory tours.

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• Kitakyushu Water Environment Museum

  北九州市水環境館
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Rivers & water environment

  A facility where the underwater world of the Murasaki River can be seen from the side. It covers river life and water quality.

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• Yaskawa Electric Robot Village

  安川電機ロボット村
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Industrial robots & motors

  A development base for industrial robots and motors. Visitors can watch robots in operation.

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• Yaskawa Electric Yahata-Nishi Plant

  安川電機八幡西事業所
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Inverters & control equipment

  A site with a robot factory and other facilities. Yaskawa Electric was founded in 1915.

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• Nippon Coke & Engineering Kitakyushu Works

  日本コークス工業北九州事業所
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Coke & resource logistics

  It makes coke by baking coal without air. It carries out a process indispensable to steelmaking.

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• Nippon Steel Kyushu Works Yawata Area

  日本製鉄九州製鉄所八幡地区
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Ironmaking & blast furnace technology

  It traces its origins to the state-run Yawata Steel Works, which began operating in 1901. As Japan's first integrated iron and steel works, it supported the country's modernization.

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• Nippon Steel Kyushu Works Kokura Area Industrial Heritage

  日本製鉄九州製鉄所小倉地区産業遺産
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Special steel & steelmaking history

  Industrial heritage of steelmaking that remains in the Kokura Area, which handles special steel.

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• Nissan Motor Kyushu

  日産自動車九州
  Fukuoka / Kanda ／ Automobiles & integrated production

  An integrated automobile production plant in Kanda Town. It does everything from stamping to assembly.

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• Nissan Shatai Kyushu

  日産車体九州
  Fukuoka / Kanda ／ Automobiles & multi-model production

  Nissan Shatai's Kyushu base. Multiple models run on the same line.

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• Seibu Electric & Machinery Head Office Plant

  西部電機本社工場
  Fukuoka / Koga ／ Conveying machinery & precision machinery

  It makes conveying machinery and precision machinery. Its products include cranes for automated warehouses.

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Industry & Tech ／ Services & Others 3 entries

• Kanefuku Mentaiko Factory

  かねふく明太子工場
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka area ／ Mentaiko & quality control

  A factory that makes mentaiko. It shows the quality control process.

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• Fukuya Mentaiko Factory Hakuhaku

  ふくや明太子工場ハクハク
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Mentaiko & food culture exhibition

  A factory that shows the mentaiko production process. It also exhibits the history of Aji no Mentaiko.

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• Krosaki Harima Head Office Plant

  黒崎播磨本社工場
  Fukuoka / Kitakyushu ／ Refractories & high-temperature materials

  It makes refractories used in steelmaking furnaces. A technology of materials that withstand high temperatures.

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Studios & Kilns ／ Crafts 14 entries

• Agano Ware

  上野焼
  Fukuoka / Fukuchi ／ Crafts & pottery

  A tea kiln opened by Korean potters under the Hosokawa lords, light in the hand and marked by running glaze.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Kurume Kasuri

  久留米絣
  Fukuoka / Kurume ／ Dyeing & weaving

  Said to have been invented by a twelve-year-old girl who noticed the pattern in a faded cloth; now an Important Intangible Cultural Property.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Yame Lanterns

  八女提灯
  Fukuoka / Yame ／ Crafts & pottery

  A single bamboo strip wound as a spiral for the frame, and the picture painted from inside so it shows when lit.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Yame Fukushima Butsudan

  八女福島仏壇
  Fukuoka / Yame ／ Lacquer art / Sculpture / Metalwork

  Built inside like a miniature temple, and finished by seven separate trades in sequence.

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• Hakata Dolls

  博多人形
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Crafts & pottery / Sculpture

  Unglazed and then painted, the surface kept deliberately matt so the skin reads as skin.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Hakata Bentwood Ware

  博多曲物
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Crafts & pottery

  Thin boards bent with heat and stitched with cherry bark, made originally for shrine ritual.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Hakata Spinning Tops

  博多独楽と郷土玩具
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Crafts & pottery / Mingei folk craft

  Tops made for street performance, weighted so precisely they will spin on the tip of a sword.

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• Hakata Textiles

  博多織
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Dyeing & weaving

  Warp packed dense and beaten with heavy weft, so the sash creaks when tightened; its pattern derives from Buddhist implements.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Hakata Weaving Workshops

  博多織の織元と手織り
  Fukuoka / Fukuoka ／ Dyeing & weaving

  Six thousand warp threads to a single sash; the density decides both the sound and the grip, so one hand oversees it all.

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• Okawa Furniture

  大川家具と久留米の木工
  Fukuoka / Okawa ／ Crafts & pottery

  Timber came here by river and shipwrights' joinery turned into cabinetmaking - now Japan's largest furniture district.

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• Koishiwara Ware

  小石原焼
  Fukuoka / Toho ／ Crafts & pottery / Mingei folk craft

  Its chatter-marked surfaces are cut by holding a blade to the spinning pot; Yanagi held it up as the model of useful beauty.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

• Tsuyazaki Dolls

  津屋崎人形
  Fukuoka / Fukutsu ／ Mingei folk craft / Crafts & pottery

  Unglazed clay dolls, best known for a bird-shaped whistle; one workshop still keeps the moulds.

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• Studios of Itoshima

  糸島の海岸と現代の工房
  Fukuoka / Itoshima ／ Crafts & pottery / Contemporary art

  Not a craft district but a scattering of individual studios, formed by people who moved here for the coast.

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• Takatori Ware

  高取焼
  Fukuoka / Toho ／ Crafts & pottery

  Founded by Korean potters and redirected to tea ware under Kobori Enshu; known for throwing extraordinarily thin.

  Details ／ Wikipedia (Japanese)

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