Art Gallery / Gallery Spots in Japan

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Category

Shopping

Other Shopping

Art Gallery / Gallery

Galley&TeaRoom Sui (Gallery&Tea Room Midori)

Leisure / Hobbies

Yamagata Akumi-gun Yuzamachi Yoshide Fukurochi 68-2
shiroiro-ie

Leisure / Hobbies

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 645
Uzan Kiln

Leisure / Hobbies

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 789
BIZEN gallery Kai

Leisure / Hobbies

Okayama Bizen Inbe 1506-1
Awabi ware

Leisure / Hobbies

Hyogo Awaji-shi Omachi Kami 507-1
Nakaoyama Koryukan

Leisure / Hobbies

Nagasaki Higashisonogi-gun Hasami Cho Nakaogo 157

A ceramics gallery that exhibits and sells works by local potters, and also displays historical materials related to pottery.
Gallery Hanna

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Matsugamine 2-7-17

The gallery is located in Matsugamine, Utsunomiya City, and is housed in an 80-year-old Japanese-style house at the end of an alley.
NATUR

Leisure / Hobbies

Toyama Nakaniikawa-gun Tateyamamachi Ashikuraji 51

This art photo gallery opened in 1989 in a partially remodeled private home. The gallery has a remodeled tearoom, and one area is a shop now, where they sell photo books, calendars, picture postcards, t-shirts, and other items. The tearoom has a variety of drinks like coffee, as well as light meals, so you can enjoy the photos while you sip.
Moegi Main Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tochigi Haga-gun Mashikomachi Kamioba Do Ke Iri 2356

A cafe and gallery nestled in a lush green forest where sunlight filters into the shop through the trees. In the gallery's natural atmosphere you'll find a wide range of products such as tableware, ceramics, and a variety of interior merchandise and other items that will fit into your daily life. Many of the sophisticated pieces are one-of-a-kind and can only be purchased there. Occasionally they hold workshops, live performances, and other events. It's known as a shop where you can participate, as well as watch.
Craft Yamani

Leisure / Hobbies

Tochigi Haga-gun Mashikomachi Jonaizaka 89

A clock tower is the symbol of this shop and gallery. It offers an array of unique Mashiko ware. It's the sister shop of Yamani Otsuka, another Mashiko ware dealer. The brightly lit store has everything from vessels you'd use daily to splendid works of art. It's an easily accessible place to browse artfully made pieces of traditional Mashiko ware. Works by Shoji Hamada, a living national treasure, Tatsuzo Shimaoka, and Ichiro Kimura are on display in the exhibition room. Mugs, rice bowls, teapots, and tea incense burners make ideal gifts.
Rakuten Artist Takahashi Masami Calligraphy Workshop

Leisure / Hobbies

Fukushima Kitakata-shi Teramachi 4771

This shop offers original pieces by Rakuten calligrapher Takahashi Masami, as well as Japanese knickknacks. The atmospheric workshop carries a traditional Kitakata atmosphere, and offers an up-close look at the fun and depth of traditional calligraphy and lettering. Rakuten is a style of art based around imaginative and distorted renderings of the original roots of kanji, ancient Chinese oracle script and bronze inscriptions. They offer a unique beauty that varies wildly from more modern kanji, and you can see exampled used at the station building, local shop signs, ramen bowls, and other places around town. The workshop also offers seal engraving activities to bring home the fun of kanji art.
Kainowa Gallery & Ukigumo Cafe

Leisure / Hobbies

Okinawa Uruma Katsurenhama 243-1
Town Station PurattoHome Takahama

Travel / Tourism

Fukui Oi-gun Takahamacho Miyazaki 77-1-8

A community center attached to Wakasa Takahama Station in Miyazaki, Takahama Town, Ohi County. Along with a shop that sells fresh local vegetables and processed products of farm produce and seafood there's also a multipurpose room, community kitchen, event space, and izakaya pub. The shop also sells the local specialty Tochu Tea and over ten different flavors of handmade Takahama Tabegoro Gelato. You can also rent bicycles.
Fukui Kogeisha

Leisure / Hobbies

Fukui Fukui-shi Chuo 1-9-29 Eco Life Plaza 2F

An art Gallery that displays and sell handicrafts and focuses on artists working in Fukui. The permanent works on display are wide-ranging and include ceramics, glasswork, lacquerware, cloisonne accessories, woodwork, plant-based dyes, Echizen Japanese paper, and postcards. They hold special theme-based exhibitions every month. These exhibitions also include a wide variety of genres including plant-based dyes and glasswork. Artist led craft workshops are also held on occasion.
Edo Kiriko Showroom

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Koto-ku Kameido 4-18-8 Kameido Umeyashiki

A showroom for Edo kiriko glass located inside Kameido Umeyashiki a 10-minute walk from the north exit of Kameido Station on the JR Chuo-Sobu Line. Edo kiriko is a glass craft whose origins date back to 1834 with engravings being applied to the surfaces of glass products; with the passage of time, a variety of glass engraving and cutting techniques were developed and the craft evolved into its current form. Today, Edo kiriko has been designated a Traditional Craft by the Tokyo metropolitan government. The showroom holds special exhibitions and sells glassware produced by the Edo Kiriko Cooperative Association. The Edo Kiriko Festival is held on July 5th on Edo Kiriko Day, and on this day visitors can enjoy workshops and a various beautiful products being sold direct by glassware studios.
Haruri Ginka

Leisure / Hobbies

Saitama Kawagoe-shi Saiwaicho 7-1

A hand-made handicrafts gallery located on the second floor of Kawagoe's longstanding Fine China Store YAMAWA. You'll find a rich variety of goods including boxes with slink screened flower designs, blown glass/core glass, ceramic/porcelain wares, lacquerware, wooden mosaic, dolls, brass accessories, glass beads, woven fabrics, died fabrics, silver accessories, bead accessories, clothing/caps, cloth accessories and bags, and tatting lace. They also hold special exhibitions.
Gallery YASUO

Leisure / Hobbies

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Nagano 620-1

A 10-minute walk from Shigaraki Kohgen Railway Shigaraki Station. This gallery, situated along National Route 307, is operated by Yasubeigama, a family-owned pottery studio now in its fifth generation. The gallery is filled with pieces by father Yasumasa Okuda and his sons Yasuyuki and Masamichi. The pieces on display span everything from old-fashioned Ko-Shigaraki ware to modern styles and primarily consist of tableware as well as flower vases and donabe earthenware pots. The gallery's selection includes plates, cups, and other tableware made using a unique glaze developed by Yasumasa and created in a distinctive, modern style which is not bound by the traditional conventions of Shigaraki ware. Perfect for setting off cuisine, many restaurants order their tableware from the gallery.
Gallery Toumu

Leisure / Hobbies

Shiga Koka-shi Shigarakicho Hosohara 65

"15 minutes from the Shigaraki Interchange on the Shin-Meishin Expressway via National Route 307. This shop presents and sells pieces by Shigaraki ceramic artisans. The shop carries a wide and diverse selection of pottery tableware and decorations by young artisans which are stylish, refreshing, and well-suited to modern sensibilities. The shop adjoins a spacious gallery and holds solo exhibitions once a month. The shop also has a ""one tatami mat gallery"" the size of a single tatami mat which artists can apply to use four around a month at a time."
Gallery Kunsthof Tsuwano

Leisure / Hobbies

Shimane Kanoashi-gun Tsuwanocho Ushirodaguchi 250-2

"A gallery and studio located on Honmachi-dori, the main street in Tsuwano. ""Kunst"" refers to art, and ""Hof"" refers to plaza or garden; it's an attempt to use German to create a ""place where friends will gather."" It is operated by Yume Kiln's artist Atsuko Nakao and Akira Nakao, active in the Berlin painting scene. Items like their paintings and small handmade plates are on display and available for purchase. They also offer pottery workshops where you knead the clay yourself, giving visitors the chance to create the work they've conceived while receiving careful instruction (reservations required)."
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Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Shibuya-ku Ebisu 1-18-4

A multipurpose complex located a six-minute walk from JR Ebisu Station. Consisting of four floors aboveground and one below, floors two and three are occupied by galleries which are used to host exhibitions throughout the year. There are also art shops which carry a wide selection of domestic and international publications concerning contemporary art and photography, as well as shops selling CDs, DVDs, art goods, and other items. You're sure to encounter new contemporary art each time you come here.

NADiff A/P/A/R/T is roughly a 5 minutes walk from Ebisu station. It is next to some nice restaurants and cafe. You have to approach it from a smaller back alley (check their website for a map). The...