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Kintsugi: mend broken pottery with gold, take it home

📍 Tokyo⏱ 2.5 hours👥 Group size 1–6¥16,500/person
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Location
📍 Tokyo
Duration
⏱ 2.5 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.

🗺 Itinerary

  1. 📍
    Meeting point & time
    Pottery studio in Yanaka — exact address sent with your confirmation
  2. 13:00
    Choose your broken cup, and why Japan doesn't hide the crack
  3. 13:30
    Join the pieces, apply the lacquer, clamp
  4. 14:20
    Dust the seam with gold — the hardest part
  5. 15:10
    Polish, and box it for the flight home
  6. The tour ends at the final stop, always a few minutes' walk from a train station. Want to keep going? Your guide will point you somewhere good nearby.

✓ What you get

  • ✓Craftsperson instructor
  • ✓Pottery piece, lacquer and gold
  • ✓Your finished piece
  • ✓Travel box for the flight home