[Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture] Recommended sightseeing spots in the Miyazaki area, home of the Japanese heritage "Echizen ware"

About Echizen Ceramic Art Village Cultural Exchange Center

About Echizen Ancient Kiln Museum

• Table of Contents
• Recommended sightseeing spots in Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture and Miyazaki area
• Echizen Pottery Village
• Pottery direct sales store "Echizen Pottery House" (Echizen Pottery Industry Cooperative Association)
• Fukui Prefectural Ceramic Art Museum
• Echizen Ancient Kiln Museum
• Echizen Ceramic Art Village Cultural Exchange Center
• Kotohira Sangu Shrine
• Echizen Hanamizuki Onsen "Wakatakeso"
• About the event
• Access Information

Recommended sightseeing spots in Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture and Miyazaki area

The Miyazaki area is a mountain village particularly rich in nature and home to idyllic rural scenery, even within Echizen Town. It is the birthplace of Echizen ware, one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns that has been in operation since the Heian period and is registered as a Japan Heritage site.

Echizen Pottery Village is home to the Fukui Prefectural Pottery Museum, a museum of Echizen ware, a pottery class where you can try hand-forming and painting pottery, and the Echizen Pottery Museum, a direct sales store for pottery makers, where you can learn about Echizen ware, play with it, and buy it. In this article, we will introduce the charms of the Oda area.

Echizen Pottery Village

Echizen Ceramic Art Village is centered around the vast Echizen Ceramic Art Park, which was selected as one of the 100 best urban parks in Japan. The park is dotted with facilities such as the Fukui Prefectural Ceramic Art Museum, where you can see, make, and use Echizen ware, the Fukui Prefectural Ceramics Training Center, which is a base for training successors of Echizen ware, the Echizen Pottery House, where you can buy Echizen ware, and the Echizen Ceramic Art Village Cultural Exchange Hall, where you can enjoy coffee in Echizen ware cups, as well as other restaurants and accommodations.

Echizen Pottery Village

6-12 Ozowara, Echizen-cho, Nyu-gun, Fukui 916-0273

Echizen Ceramic Art Village was established in 1971. Echizen ware had been in decline since its heyday during the Muromachi period, so the plan was to promote the production area as a base for regional development and to attract young potters with excellent skills and initiative, with the aim of developing it into an industry. The artists who came to the village afterwards still work hard at their creative endeavours, setting up studios and galleries around the village. Echizen Ceramic Art Village is centered around the vast Echizen Ceramic Art Park, which has been selected as one of the 100 Best Urban Parks in Japan. There is also the Fukui Prefectural Ceramic Art Museum, where you can see, make and use Echizen ware, the Fukui Prefectural Ceramic Industry Guidance Office, a base for training successors of Echizen ware, the Echizen Pottery House, where you can buy Echizen ware, the Echizen Pottery Village Cultural Exchange Hall, where you can enjoy coffee in Echizen ware cups, and other restaurants and accommodations.

Pottery direct sales store "Echizen Pottery House" (Echizen Pottery Industry Cooperative Association)

This is a direct sales store operated by the Echizen Pottery Industry Cooperative. It is a direct sales store that is full of the charm of Echizen ware, one of the six ancient kilns in Japan, and displays and sells products and works from Echizen ware kilns all in one place.

About Echizen Pottery Museum

Fukui Prefectural Ceramic Art Museum

The Fukui Prefecture Ceramic Art Museum has three facilities: a museum where you can see and learn about the history and characteristics of Echizen ware, a pottery class where you can make pottery using Echizen clay, and a tea garden where you can use and taste Echizen ware.

About the Fukui Prefectural Ceramic Art Museum

Echizen Ancient Kiln Museum

The Mizuno Collection (a nationally registered tangible cultural property) collected by Mizuno Kuemon, a leading researcher in Echizen ware, is on display. In a 180-year-old traditional Japanese house, you can enjoy matcha tea in an Echizen ware tea bowl.

About Echizen Ancient Kiln Museum

Echizen Ceramic Art Village Cultural Exchange Center

In addition to displaying and selling works by contemporary Echizen ware artists, there is a popular corner where you can enjoy coffee in an Echizen ware cup of your choice.

About Echizen Ceramic Art Village Cultural Exchange Center

Kotohira Sangu Shrine

This is a historic shrine that is affectionately known by the locals as "Konpira-san" and is regarded as the guardian deity of fishermen.

About Kotohirasan Shrine

Echizen Hanamizuki Onsen "Wakatakeso"

This hot spring accommodation is located near Echizen Ceramic Art Village, and its soft, mellow hot spring water is said to have the best spring quality in Fukui Prefecture.

About Wakatakeso

About the event

Echizen Ceramic Art Festival

This is the largest pottery market in Fukui Prefecture with a focus on Echizen ware, where Echizen ware kilns gather under one roof and you can purchase a wide variety of pottery, including new works.

Access Information

The Echizen Town/Miyazaki area can be accessed from Kyoto or Osaka in about 4 hours. For detailed access information, please see the following page. We are also running a great rental car cashback campaign.