ccpottery@BELLSOUTH.NET on sat 29 jan 05
Hi all -
I am spending a few days in Tokyo and want to take
a day trip to a pottery village/center.
Need to be there and back in one day.
Any suggestions?
Chris Campbell - in North Carolina - have so much to cram into so few days!!
Edwards on sat 29 jan 05
Chris your one lucky dog. Mashiko will not disappoint you! Have a great trip
~Craig
ccpottery@BELLSOUTH.NET wrote:
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>
>I am spending a few days in Tokyo and want to take
>a day trip to a pottery village/center.
>
>Need to be there and back in one day.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Chris Campbell - in North Carolina - have so much to cram into so few days!!
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Victoria E. Hamilton on sat 29 jan 05
Chris -
Mashiko would be my first inclination. Take the train to Utsunomiya (sp?)
and then the bus (about an hour and a little bumpy) to Mashiko. You won't
regret it.
Victoria Hamilton
Millennia Antica Pottery
Seattle, WA
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Subject: Day Trip from Tokyo
Hi all -
I am spending a few days in Tokyo and want to take
a day trip to a pottery village/center.
Need to be there and back in one day.
Any suggestions?
Chris Campbell - in North Carolina - have so much to cram into so few days!!
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terryh on sun 30 jan 05
ccpottery@BELLSOUTH.NET wrote:
>I am spending a few days in Tokyo and want to take
>a day trip to a pottery village/center.
>
>Need to be there and back in one day.
my thai potter friend who lived in japan recommended
Kasama, an hour train ride from Ueno station. i found
an article about kasama in,
http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/ibaraki-daruma.html
i'm planning to take this trip myself this spring.
he also sugegsted Tokoname, if you have JR-pass.
2-3 hourrs one way on shin-kansen bullet train.
this will be a very long day.
terry
terry hagiwara
terryh@pdq.net
http://www.geocities.com/terry.hagiwara
Rick on sun 30 jan 05
Mashiko. Have a look at this site:
http://www.infocreate.co.jp/hometown/mashiko/mashik-e.html
Enjoy yourself.
Rick
On Jan 30, 2005, at 1:05 AM, ccpottery@BELLSOUTH.NET wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> I am spending a few days in Tokyo and want to take
> a day trip to a pottery village/center.
>
> Need to be there and back in one day.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Chris Campbell - in North Carolina - have so much to cram into so few
> days!!
>
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John Baymore on mon 31 jan 05
Chris,
Haven't had much time to be on the CLAYART list in a while. Really busy.
Just happened to be checking the archives and saw this post.
Mashiko is an easy day trip out of the Tokyo area...... Japanese toursits
do it all the time. And Kasama is about 1/2 hour by car from Mashiko. If
you have to be there and back in a day.... plan on one or the other... not
both. The shinkansen from Ueno Eki (station) to the city of Utsunomiya
and then the local bus from just outside the front of the station is the
easiest way to get there if you don;t know the area. You can also go
there totally by train.... but unless you speak a tad of Japanese..... the
two connections you'll need can be a bit iffy. All told... it'll take you
about 2 hours to get there...... not counting waiting time between the
train and the bus.
To find the Mashiko bus at Utsunomiya, when you exit out of the station's
main doors there is a "traffic plaza" that has multiple lanes and bus
boarding stations. The Mashiko bound bus stops at the closest one to the
station on the right hand side of the platform area under sort of an
overpass and it will come in from the right as you face away from the
train station. If I remember correctly, there is one small Romanji
(English) sign saying "Mashiko" on the bus stand.... but I could be
mistaken. The bus itself does not have English on it..... so look at the
Kanji characters for "Mashiko" so that you'll recognize them.... because a
lot of buses use that platform too. During the day the bus runs about
every hour in each direction.
There are multiple stops in Mashiko itself... it is a "local" type bus.
And Mashiko is pretty large. You might wait until you see the billboard
type signs outside the bus that say "Mashiko Pottery Museum" (in English)
to get off. That will put you sort of in the center of the town.
Mashiko can be an amazing place..... but it is typical of the dichotomy
that is Japan. In one viewing you will see the most incredible pieces and
the most awful pices sitting virtually side-by-side. It is very much now
a "tourist town"........ with the tourism being driven pretty much solely
by pottery. I was first there in 1996.... and the changes in the place
between then and last summer are pretty amazing. Lots
of "development"....... with parts of it becoming what we might call in
America "Yuppified". Like any tourist place..... there is great things to
see... and not so great stuff.
BTW... if you can wedge it in....... try to visit Nikko for a day. It is
where Tokagawa Ieasu (the first Tokagawa Shogun) is entoumbed. It is
about as beautiful a place as you will find in Japan. It drips with
history. It is about an hour and a half out of Utsunomiya in the
direction opposite from Mashiko. Definately worth the effort it might
take to get there. If you can't get to Kyoto....... get to Nikko.
I'll try to find time to post some more info ....gotta' go now. Have a
GREAT time and eat some hamachi for me .
best,
.................john
John Baymore
River Bend Pottery
Wilton, NH 03086
http://www.JohnBaymore.com
JBaymore@compuserve.com
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