Echizen Takeningyo no Sato

Lunch stop

Our tour bus stopped here for lunch which they had a restaurant upstairs, which I enjoyed very much. Tried their soba which is sold downstairs, ladies from restaurant were selling it upstairs for 100...

Interesting bamboo workshop

A large shop with various bamboo items for sale. A museum and worksop attached which you can visit for a fee. I did not so cannot advise on them. However no problem spending an hour browsing in the...

Watch bamboo products being made

For 300 Yen can enter a workshop and small museum, with a variety of bamboo dolls and other figures on display. In the workshop you can see bamboo being cut, and new products being made by hand. For a...

Bamboo doll museum

A large giftshop that doubles as a museum, showing the traditional bamboo dolls and crafts, made locally (there's a workshop on site). Prices range from a few hundred Yen to some very expensive pieces...

Bamboo thinning from 0.3mm

Original Text

At the bamboo doll studio, I saw the craftsmanship of Echizen bamboo dolls because it was a steady work that inserted bamboo into the head of the doll with hundreds or thousands of bamboo as thin as 0.3mm.