Usaji Studio is a pottery experience studio run by a husband and wife pottery artist couple with the mission of "creating happy dining tables."
Located right next to Miyazawa Kenji Dowa Mura / Kenji’s School(Village of Fairy Tales), you can experience pottery making using hand-formed or electric potter's wheels, and even beginners of all ages can give it a try.
There are courses available where you can make various types of vessels such as dream lights, objets d'art, and Jomon pottery, and you can also choose the glaze (color).
It's not a teacher-student relationship, but rather an atmosphere of enjoying pottery as friends playing together, so you can have a lively and fun pottery experience.

 

A pottery studio that had not been used for 10 years was renovated and opened as Pottery Experience Studio Usaji Kobo, in July 2017.
In the same building is the mountain hut Cafe Kuragake (owned by a different owner), where you can relax and enjoy nature all day long in the quiet forest.

There is also a direct sales shop next door where you can purchase pottery works at a discount.
 

◆Click here for details and application for the trial course◆

*Easy hand-building course

 (One-hour course to easily make just one item)

*Recommended hand-building course

(One is not enough! Recommended for those who want to make more)

* Electric potter's wheel course

(When it comes to pottery, it's all about the electric potter's wheel. Help with one and do the other yourself. This is a course full of a challenging spirit.)