Experience Hall / Accommodation Experience (Training) Facility Spots in Tochigi Area

  • Wakayama Farm
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
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    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Takaragihoncho 2018
    This multi-generational bamboo farm boasts 24 hectares of beautifully maintained bamboo thickets that stretch as far as the eye can see. From April to June, visitors can enjoy a variety of activities including foraging for bamboo shoots, drinking matcha tea out of bamboo cups, bamboo crafts, and bamboo hammocking. It is also possible take strolls through the bamboo thickets, which are illuminated at night. Relying on the lights from their borrowed paper lantern, visitors can enjoy experience that can only be described as otherworldly.

    散歩にちょうど良い広さ(のんびり歩いて30分)映画やCMのロケに使われているのも納得できる感じで、コスプレして写真や動画を撮る目的で訪れても満足出来そう。平日だったのですいていました。

  • Hako no Mori Play Park
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    4.5
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    Tochigi Pref. Nasushiobarashi Nakashiobara Hako no Mori
    This facility offering hands-on experiences is located in Nasushiobara City. Park visitors can enjoy a wide variety of outdoor activities including cycling, barbequing, pottery lessons, and more. There is also a day spa on the park's grounds that offers views of the seasonal scenery of Shiobara from the large windows of its spacious baths.

    広い敷地に、自転車広場や日帰り温泉、バーベキュー広場などがある。以前は子供達を連れてキャンプによく来たものだが、今はコテージだけになってしまった。この日は孫を連れて日帰り温泉「遊湯センター」へ。できたばかりの頃によく利用したので、久しぶりに入ったらちょっと古さを感じた。ゆっくり温泉に浸かった後は、自転車広場。ユニークな自転車が多数あり、乗らないまでも見ていて楽しい。孫も大喜びだ。11月の中旬という...

  • Hoshifuru Gakko Kumanoki
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    Tochigi Shioya-gun Shioyamachi Kumanoki 802
    This small rural elementary school is a place where people can experience life in the countryside. Originally opening in 1874, it was a place of learning for countless children for 124 years until it closed. The wooden schoolhouses, which are preserved just as they were, are still used today. Visitors can stay overnight at the school and cook their own meals in its outdoor cooking area or its classrooms. It also offers a fun and educational stargazing and astronomy programs (reservation required).

    小学生の子供と泊まりました。お風呂も綺麗で快適でした。周りには街灯もなく空も開けていて星を見るには良いところです。

  • Nikko Woodcarving Village Craft Centre
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    Tochigi Pref. Nikkoushi Tokorono 2848
    This facility in Tokorono, Nikko City has displays on traditional Nikko crafts including Nikko woodcarvings, as well as the tools used to make them. They also offer workshops, including one that gives you a chance to make your own Nikko woodcarving. Other facilities include a shop that sells Nikko woodcarvings and a demonstration facility where you can sign up for a workshop to try kniting the straw sandals.

    木彫り体験ができる施設で、おぼんや手鏡(小・中)に植物や三猿を彫ることができます。職人さんが丁寧に教えてくれるので素人でもできます。おぼんなどには下絵が書いてあるので、それに沿って彫れば失敗はしません。手鏡中サイズで1440円でした。

  • Hasegawa Toen
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    Tochigi Haga-gun Mashikomachi Mashiko 4240-3
    "A long-established kiln located opposite Mashiko no Mori, a prefectural nature park. With a motto of ""Having Fun Making Pottery,"" they offer the chance to participate in workshops painting ceramics and creating them both by hand and with a potter's wheel. Join their popular electric potter's wheel workshops to make sake cups, teacups, rice bowls, and more. For glazing you can choose between 10 colors and patterns including white, dark blue, and plum patterned. Children 6-years and up can join in by painting letters and pictures on plates and teacups."

    ロクロ体験ができます。私はぐい呑3つ.飯茶碗2つ、皿1枚を作成。そのうち、ぐい呑3つと飯茶碗1つを購入。値段は、ロクロ使用料1000円、ぐい呑800円/個、飯茶碗900円/1個でした。基本料は、ロクロの1000円と制作物を最低2つ購入すること。制作物は焼き上がったら、取りに行くか、宅配便。焼き上がりまでは1カ月から1カ月半。体験時間は基本的に午前と午後の回がありますが、ロクロがあいていれば時間の自...

  • CANDLE HOUSE Chou Chou
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    Tochigi Pref. Nasugunnasumachi Takaku Otsu 796-234
    This specialty shop that offers handmade candle workshops is where you can simple enjoy making original candles while taking your time. Besides stone candles popular with families, you can also immerse yourself in making your own original snow domes perfect for the winter season.
  • Glass Studio Punty
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    Tochigi Pref. Nikkoushi Tokorono 1541-1499
    This glass studio is located in Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture. There, visitors can try their hand at glass blowing and making their own original glass items including sake cups and tumblers. The studio, which also sells glass items and holds regular events, is visited by many people, especially tourists.
  • Kamekoubou
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    Tochigi Pref. Nasugunnasumachi Takaku Yumoto 350-10
    This hands-on pottery workshop is located in Nasu County, Tochigi Prefecture. Visitors can enjoy trying their hand at pottery using a manual or electric potter's wheel (reservation required). The workshop also exhibits and sells works of pottery, dyeing, and weaving. The pet-friendly workshop is visited by many tourists.
  • Oya Stone Museum
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    Tochigi Pref. Utsunomiyashi Oyamachi 1196-2
    This workshop in Utsunomiya City is located in front of the Oya Kannon. Here you can try your hand at crafting things from local Oya stone as well as purchase souvenirs and have a light lunch. Come challenge yourself with courses in using paint, Japanese paper, and beads to make stone paintings, mosaics, and decoupage. Individuals can drop in without reservations but for groups reservations are required.
  • Boken Katsudo Center
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    Tochigi Utsunomiya-shi Shinoimachi 1885-1
    This recreation center can be used by people of all ages regardless of whether they are city residents. Its facilities are all housed in buildings designed to be in harmony with nature. In addition to facilities for outdoor activities, the center also has a gymnasium and an arts and crafts room for indoor activities. The center's diverse activity programs include mountain climbing, outdoor cooking, walk rallies, orienteering, and a variety of crafts including wooden toy making and bamboo working.
  • Snow Dome Factory
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    Tochigi Pref. Nasugunnasumachi Takaku Hei 1 Hotel Epinard Nasu Experience Studio Wagaku Sun
    A 10 minute drive from the Nasu Interchange. A workshop located in the Hotel Epinard Nasu in the town of Nasu where you can make your own snow dome. Filled with glitter and small faux snowflakes which swirl around a tiny scene when shaking, snow domes make for popular interior decorations and collectors’ items. At Snow Dome Factory, you can create a unique snow dome, choosing from hundreds of glass and French porcelain figures and objects and placing them however you wish in a large glass hemispherical dome.
  • Yokoyama Pottery Experience
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    Tochigi Pref. Hagagunmashikomachi Mashiko 3527-7
    This facility is designed for visitors to try making Mashiko ware pottery. Besides a full-fledged course using a potter’s wheel, there is also a course where even small children can make an original piece like no other in the world with their own hands. On the second floor, there is a café restaurant which serves its fare in Mashiko ware. Take some time out after the class with lunch or sweets.
  • Taiken! Soba Dojo
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    Tochigi Moka Kamiyagai 106
    "This soba noodle restaurant is located in Moka City's nature-rich Kamiyagai district. Here you can learn how to make soba noodles by hand using homegrown, homemade buckwheat flour. Noodle making classes take around an hour and 30 minutes. Participants can also take the noodles they have made using wheat flour and buckwheat flour, veritable gifts of the land, and have them prepared right on the spot to eat them. Dedicated to the motto of ""living with nature and a lifetime of learning from nature,"" staff provide courteous guidance during the classes, ensuring even those with no experience will have fun making soba noodles by hand (advance reservation required)."
  • Toyukan
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    Tochigi Nasu-gun Nakagawamachi Koisago 2712-15
    This activity center is one hour from the Yaita Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway. Situated in the Koisago district, a member of the Most Beautiful Villages in Japan Union, here visitors can try activities such as forming pottery from local Koisago clay by hand or using a potter's wheel, as well as pottery painting. The spacious facility can accommodate up to 100 people at a time, making it perfect for large groups. Koisago ware is famous for its gold crystals and its origins date back to 1830 when Tokugawa Nariaki, lord of Mito Domain, began using the local clay in the official pottery making workshop of Mito Domain. Koisago ware has also been selected for inclusion in the 100 Best Local Specialty Products from Tochigi Prefecture list and has been designated a Tochigi Traditional Craft.
  • Art Space Nasu
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    Tochigi Nasumachi Takakuko 2888-32
    This stained-glass activity studio stands on a road a short distance from the Nasu Highway (Prefectural Route 17). Conveniently located five minutes from the Nasu Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway, the studio also sells stained-glass works of art which shine with a beautiful and delicate light. Operating out of an earthquake-resistant building, the studio's shop area is filled with floor and table lamps; and stylish, reasonably-priced stained-glass decorations, and customers rave that you'll lose track of the time looking around. The studio offers a fused glass art activity in which participants arrange flower-shaped glass beads and fuse them in a kiln, and even small children will find it easy and fun to do.
  • Kominegama
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    Tochigi Haga-gun Mashikomachi Mashiko 3169-1
    This pottery studio makes traditional Mashiko ware, which got its start in 1853. Its studio near the prefectural nature park Mashiko no Mori gives visitors the chance to try painting pottery or making it with or without a potter's wheel. The popular potter's wheel workshop takes about two hours and lets you make more than two items. Rotating the clay with the electric potter's wheel is ideal for creating well-formed pieces. The staff provides careful guidance and will let you use an apron at no extra charge, making the program great for kids and adults alike.
  • Mashiko Ceramic Art Club
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    Tochigi Haga-gun Mashikomachi Mashiko 3288-6
    A pottery school with accommodation in Mashiko, a town known for its pottery. In a kominka (traditional Japanese house) with all the necessary equipment, it's a great place to seriously engage in pottery making. They have 30 potter's wheels and they provide as much clay as you need. Even first-timers will have fun under the staff's careful guidance. Clubs and other organizations often use the facility, as do lots of people who just want to quietly make pottery by themselves. There's also a ceramics painting program for those who don't want to make an item from scratch.
  • Tsukamoto Pottery Classroom
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    Tochigi Haga-gun Mashikomachi Mashiko 4264
    The largest kiln producing Mashiko ware pottery is located near Mashiko no Mori, a prefectural nature park. The lushly wooded site has a pottery workshop, a gallery, and a restaurant. The workshop produces about 10,000 pots for Oginoya's Kamameshi rice pots daily which are popularly known as bento (box lunch), Yokokawa Touge-no-Kamameshi. They offer three popular pottery classes: painting ceramics, making pottery by hand, and making pottery with a genuine potter's wheel. Under the careful guidance of their staff, even beginners can participate with confidence.
  • Yamani Otsuka Pottery Classroom
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    Tochigi Haga-gun Mashikomachi Jonaizaka 88
    "A ceramics school is located in the heart of Mashiko, which is renowned for its pottery. It has a gallery, shop, and restaurant with a theme of ""See, Eat, Play, Relax, Discover, and Make Memories."" The spacious shop offers a wide range of items for you to discover, from traditional Mashiko ware to pieces by young up-and-coming artists. You can select from workshops in painting pottery or making it with or without a potter's wheel. Conducted under the careful guidance of their staff, it's an easily accessible challenge for everyone from kids to adults."
  • Tobiyamarekishitaikenkan
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    Tochigi Pref. Utsunomiyashi Takeshitamachi 380-1

    目の前にある飛山城の説明施設です。子供でも視覚的に理解しやすい展示があり、なかなかよいです。そのほかにも昔の遊びや考古学に関する体験を行うことができ、私の子供たちは勾玉作りを体験しました。 親切にガイドしてくださり、子供たちも楽しむことができました。

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Most visits to Tochigi revolve around Nikko, a small city home to the spectacular, lavishly decorated Toshogu Shrine and Nikko National Park with its mountains, lakes, waterfalls, onsen, and wild monkeys. Neighboring Oku-Nikko is an extension of the fantastic scenery famous for its autumn leaves, while Tochigi’s capital, Utsunomiya, is the only place in the world where you can find oya stone beautifully exhibited in temples and the Oya History Museum.

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