Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home
Choose from 3 available options
Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home
- ⏱ Duration: 2.5 hours
- 👥 Group size: 1–6 guests
- 🚌 Meeting point: Pottery studio in Yanaka — exact address sent with your confirmation
Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home + Kappabashi kitchen street
- ⏱ Duration: 4 hours
- 👥 Group size: 1–6 guests
- 📍 Stops: Kappabashi kitchen street
- 🚌 Meeting point: Pottery studio in Yanaka — exact address sent with your confirmation
Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home by private Alphard
- ⏱ Duration: 4.5 hours
- 👥 Group size: 1–6 guests
- 📍 Stops: Kappabashi kitchen street
- 🚌 Meeting point: Private Alphard option: pick-up and drop-off at your hotel, door to door.
- Location
- 📍 Tokyo
- Duration
- ⏱ Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home: 2.5 hours · Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home + Kappabashi kitchen street: 4 hours · Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home by private Alphard: 4.5 hours
- Group size
- 👥 1–6 guests
- Guide language
- 🗣 English
- Tour type
- 👥 Small group
- Getting around
- 🚶 2–3 km walking, some steps
About this experience
Kintsugi is the craft of mending broken pottery with gold-dusted lacquer — Japan doesn't hide the crack, it makes it the point. Choose a broken cup, join it, dust the seam with gold, and carry that exact cup home. Taught in English by a working craftsperson.
✓ What you get
- ✓Craftsperson instructor
- ✓Pottery piece, lacquer and gold
- ✓Your finished piece
- ✓Travel box for the flight home
🗺 Itinerary
- 📍Meeting point & timePottery studio in Yanaka — exact address sent with your confirmation
- 13:00Choose your broken cup, and why Japan doesn't hide the crack
- 13:30Join the pieces, apply the lacquer, clamp
- 14:20Dust the seam with gold — the hardest part
- 15:10Polish, and box it for the flight home
🚌 Tokyo
Pottery studio in Yanaka — exact address sent with your confirmation
🚐 Private Alphard option: pick-up and drop-off at your hotel, door to door.
- · Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home — 2.5 hours
- · Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home + Kappabashi kitchen street — 4 hours
- · Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home by private Alphard — 4.5 hours
🏁 Where it ends
The tour ends with the last item on the itinerary: Polish, and box it for the flight home.
🚐 Private Alphard option: the car drops you off at your hotel.
🕒 Cancellation policy
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start time. Later cancellations and no-shows are charged in full.
✅ How confirmation works
Booking is NOT instantly confirmed. After you send it we check guide availability for that exact date and time, then reply — usually within 24 hours. If you chose to pay on site, nothing is charged before confirmation; if you paid online and we cannot confirm, you are refunded in full.
💳 Payment
Secure online payment via Stripe: card, Apple Pay, PayPay or Konbini, depending on what is available at checkout. Or pay on the spot when you meet your guide — choose in the booking box.
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