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Some laquerware sold in a renovated Hino merchant home converted into a store.
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Kappabashi is a road lined with kitchenware shops for restaurants and professional cooks. Tourists are also welcome. Fake food can be bought (and made).
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In Oct., it holds the Kappabashi Dogu Matsuri festival. Near Tawaramachi Station on the Ginza Line. Kappabashi entrance is marked by this chef.
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Stairway with cups.
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Kappabashi road has kitchenware shops on both sides.
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Crowded during the Kappabashi Matsuri.
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Fake food are popular souvenirs.
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Molds
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Pans
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Kumamon
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Old American-style diner
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Jukebox
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Betty Page lunchbox
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Kappa imp
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One symbol of Kappabashi
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Aprons
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Welcome mats
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Side street
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Restaurant signs of all kinds
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For Chinese restaurants
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Cutting boards
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Door signs
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Tokyo Skytree tempura
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Kappa
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Kappabashi road
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Bento containers
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All fake
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Looks yummy though...
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Beckoning cat
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Shiragaki tanuki also commonly displayed at the restaurant entrance.
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Kurayoshi's Shirakabe White-Wall Warehouses are in a National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区) named Utsubuki-Tamagawa (打吹玉川).This used to be a castle town until 1615. It was a commercial district up to the 1920s. About 100 traditional buildings with white walls (kura storehouses) and red roof tiles remain. The Tottori earthquake in Oct. 2016 damaged a few white walls. A short bus ride from JR Kurayoshi Station.
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Map of Shirakabe Warehouse district in Kurayoshi. The district is compact, easy to walk around.
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Road where I got off the bus.
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The main kura storehouses here. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura storehouses in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura storehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura warehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura warehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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The main Shirakabe kura warehouse in Kurayoshi, Tottori. 赤瓦二号館
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Lacquerware on display
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Bowls
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Prices are quite reasonable. They sell pottery for any type of budget.
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Vases
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Bargains to be found.
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Pottery vendor
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Lemme outta here...
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Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park also has pottery kilns. Here's one "Anagama" cave kiln.
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Pottery kilns require large amounts of wood.
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"Anagama" kiln diagram and explanation in Japanese and English.
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Noborigama sloping kiln 登り窯
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"Anagama" kiln.
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"Noborigama" sloping kiln 登り窯
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Side entrances of noborigama kiln. 登り窯
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Inside the kiln. This one was open and empty, but some were closed and you could feel the warmth on the door.
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Inside a side entrance of a noborigama kiln. 登り窯
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"Noborigama" kiln explanation in Japanese and English. 登り窯
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"Noborigama" kiln
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Ceramic seats
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More outdoor ceramic art. This is outside the Institute of Ceramic Studies where invited artists in residence create and do research and workshops and lectures are held.
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Inside Tanuki-kan store.
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