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      • 01 Walking in Takata - Onada
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      • 05 Modern day Nagase St. - flash backs from the past
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        • The Story of Mino Ware (Part 04)
        • Beyond Mino Ware (Part 05)
      • The ascending kiln
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      • A polar bear's pottery performance
      • Shiro Tenmoku (01): The first reproduction in 500 years
      • Shiro Tenmoku (02): The first reproduction in 500 years
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      • From Tokyo to Tajimi (Part 2): About a future where people live wherever they want
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      • The Festival - Oh, What a Night!
      • The Life of an American Japanese
      • Festivals in Tajimi
      • 2018 in Tajimi - Visually
      • Film - A day in Tajimi
      • Virtual Travel - The day when Our World Shrank
      • Blessings in a calamitous year (part 01)
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    • 焼物の町 多治見で茶道のあれこれ (Part 01)
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      • 美濃焼物語 (Part 04)
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      • 幸兵衛窯:伝統と革新の出会い
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      • 安藤日出武
      • タイルキングダム - 笠原町
      • 陶磁器の本拠地でグランプリを目指せ!
      • 柴田育彦 ボーダーレスな陶芸家
      • 新しい陶磁器産業の形
      • モザイクタイルプリンセス
      • フィンランドと多治見の出会い
      • 陶祖 - 謎めいた名工が遺したもの
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      • 多治見のお正月の自然薯料理
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    • 東京から多治見へ - PART 3
    • 厄年の御祈祷 (part 01)
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    • 夏祭り - なんて素敵な夜!
    • 人込みを避けてお花見を満喫しよう
    • 多治見のお祭り
    • シデコブシ 東濃地方の珍しい木蓮の花
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Walking in Tajimi pottery land
​part one - onada/takata

If you spend some time in Tajimi - perhaps taking part in a pottery course - there are many places to go and explore. Some are easy to find, others are not. Here we will show some in the latter category.

Tajimi is situated in what was once called Mino Province, and it was here that some of the most important pottery in Japan saw daylight. In this walk you will encounter remains of both the ancient tradition and of the later era, when mass production had taken over. Bring your camera if you are into photography; you will have the chance to capture some interesting views.

Go by bus:

You can go to the starting point by catching a bus from Tajimi Station. Here is a bus map. You get the orange line (Onada line 小名田線) (starting from the North Exit side of Tajimi Station) and get off at Onada-cho 1 (小名田町1). Walk back to the bakery on your right. From there, use the map below to navigate to the starting point the gate to Hakusan Shrine [(1) here below] (if you want to start where we did).  The bus time table may change, but here is a link where you can check. At the time of this writing there is one departure every hour, the ride is about 10 min. If you follow our route, you go back from th Takataguchi (高田口) bus stop on the table at the bottom.

How to use the map below:

We have marked sixteen points of interest in the order we saw them on our walk. You can click each number to bring up a picture. If you click the icon in the top left, you can bring out a dashboard showing all points in order. You can also display a line showing directions from Tajimi station to the starting point. Use your mouse wheel or fingers to enlarge the scale.


​If you go here by bus from Tajimi there is a bus stop on the main road close to the starting point.
(1) We start at the bottom of the stairs to the Hakusan Shrine. This was the site of several ancient kilns, and it is believed that some of the finds here prove that the unique shiro tenmoku white tea bowls originated here.

(2) The shrine is very active and the Onada villagers hold several ceremonies a year when a Shinto priest will come and hold a prayer. The grounds are covered by shards of ancient, discarded pottery from the kilns that were once active here back in medieval times.
(3) After the visit to the shrine we crossed the bridge back to the main street. To the left of the bridge about 70 meters from the road is the very nice cafe Gershwine. 

(4) You will also find a bakery on the left side of the road.
(5) When you cross the street and walk a couple hundred meters you will find this praying altar from the Edo era. People prayed here to be saved from an epidemic during those times.

(6) Continuing on the same street you will pass the Takata Pottery Association building. Takata is particularly famous for the tokkuri sake and shochu flask production.

(7) We turn to the left and climb the steep hill up to the Takata Shrine.
(8) The grounds at Takata shrine are covered by old ceramic shards, just like at Hakusan Shrine. The day we visited a young woman arrived to pray. She bowed at the gate half-way up before she disappeared from our view. We only heard when she shook the rope in front of the shrine to wake up the gods before praying.

(9) We walk down the stairs from the shrine and continue climbing up the road again.
(10) Here we encounter a more modern relic from the golden era of the ceramics industry in Tajimi. It’s an old factory with a high chimney. Chimneys like these dominated the whole area at one time. Now only a few remain. Inside the factory, trees are growing. The Mino region had turned to mass production, and new tools were invented to make it possible for unskilled workers to output large volumes of product that were sold across the country and even abroad. 

(11) When we pass the old coal fired factory we return to an older era. Here is a climbing kiln, a descendant from pre-edo era days. These kilns were wood fired and built on slopes so that heat would travel from each chamber upwards to save firewood. This kiln was active for a short time in the Taisho era.
(12) Now we walk in the wrong direction for a while and get lost.

(13) It may be a good idea to get lost actually, try it! We found some interesting streets offering good motifs for photographs. This is a ceramics industry area. 

(14) We turn back and find this small road that leads up to the Kyouei park on top of the mountain.

(15) To go to the park you turn to the right near this overpass ahead of us. Here you will find several large ceramic works donated by local potters. A nice area to sit down and take a break. There is also a reconstructed ancient kofun grave near the school nearby. By this time our legs were pretty sore! 
(16) Walking down the hill again and across the Takata creek we arrive at this monument displaying typical Takata sake and shochu flasks. From here you can catch a bus back, but there is a nice udon restaurant just around the curve back towards Tajimi, a very nice cafe, and a kiln founded by one of the most famous men in Japanese pottery history. More on that in the next article!

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  • About Tajimi
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          • Food - Wild Yam a treat for the New Year
          • Food - Eel à la tajimienne
          • Drink - Sake in Tajimi
          • Drink - Sake. "Excellently Dry"
          • Food: Cook a local snack - Gohei mochi
          • Food: The History of the Gohei mochi
      • Plan your trip to Tajimi and Gifu
      • See >
        • Places
        • Historical figures
      • Mino Ware >
        • Famous kilns in Tajimi - a pottery town in Gifu prefecture, Japan
        • Mino ware ceramics and pottery Shopping
        • Pottery and ceramics galleries in Tajimi, Japan
        • Courses, equipment and stores for Potters
      • Experience >
        • Pottery Workshops in Tajimi, Japan
        • Pottery painting & Tile Art experiences in Tajimi
        • Fruit Picking in Tajimi
      • Eat & Drink in Tajimi >
        • Restaurants
        • Cafes & Confectionaries
        • Unagappa Sweets
        • Tajimi Yakisoba
      • Souvernirs
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      • Lodging
    • Event Calendar
  • News index
  • Essays
    • Pottery Retreats - A Creative Escape
    • Tajimi partners with local businesses to improve services for foreign tourists
    • The tea Ceremony in Tajimi: Pottery, People, and Places (Part 01)
    • The tea Ceremony in Tajimi: Pottery, People, and Places (Part 02)
    • To Tajimi and back: foreign visitors' impressions of our city
    • Walking in Tajimi >
      • 01 Walking in Takata - Onada
      • 02 Walking in Tajimi - The Immovable Wisdom King
      • 03 Walking in Tajimi - Suigetsu Kiln
      • 04 Walking in Tajimi - North of Toki
      • 05 Modern day Nagase St. - flash backs from the past
      • 06 Around Oribe Street
      • 07 The Tajimi Ginza Arcade Area
      • 08 Ichinokura - The Pottery Town (Part 01)
      • 09 Ichinokura - The Pottery Town (Part 02)
    • Cycling in Tajimi
    • Ceramics >
      • Makigama Fair in Tajimi
      • Ceramics Festival Mino 24
      • The Story of Mino Ware >
        • The roots of the Mino ware renaissance
        • The Story of Mino Ware (Part 1)
        • The Story of Mino Ware (Part 02)
        • The Story of Mino Ware (Part 03)
        • The Story of Mino Ware (Part 04)
        • Beyond Mino Ware (Part 05)
      • The ascending kiln
      • Kobe Kiln: Tradition-meets-innovation
      • A polar bear's pottery performance
      • Shiro Tenmoku (01): The first reproduction in 500 years
      • Shiro Tenmoku (02): The first reproduction in 500 years
      • Finland Meets Tajimi
      • Ceramic treats in Tajimi - a Mini Tour
      • Learning pottery at the Ho-Ca workshop
      • Master Potter Hidetake Ando
      • Brave New Pottery - 3rd Ceramics
      • English Guided Tours 2019
      • Ikuhiko Shibata - Not Your Ordinary Potter
      • Kasahara - the Tile Kingdom
      • The Mosaic Princess Tile Enthusiasts
      • Striking Gold in Mino 2021
      • Toso - the Legacy of a Mysterious Master Potter
      • A Muromachi Style Kiln Firing
    • Life in Tajimi >
      • Tono-ben: Great Ice-breaker phrases for the traveler >
        • Tono-ben Karta - a card game
        • Tono-ben; Everybody Loves Fumi-chan
        • Learn Tono-ben (Karuta cards)
      • From Tokyo to Tajimi: My Life in a Seemingly Ordinary Rural Town (Part 1)
      • From Tokyo to Tajimi (Part 2): About a future where people live wherever they want
      • From Tokyo to Tajimi (Part 3): Now is the time to see the countryside
      • The Festival - Oh, What a Night!
      • The Life of an American Japanese
      • Festivals in Tajimi
      • 2018 in Tajimi - Visually
      • Film - A day in Tajimi
      • Virtual Travel - The day when Our World Shrank
      • Blessings in a calamitous year (part 01)
      • Blessings in a calamitous year (part 02)
      • Flower Viewing Beyond the Crowds
      • Manga: The Kappa Scene
      • Shidekobushi - the rare Magnolias of the Tono region
    • History >
      • A Failed Coup d'etat - And the Death of a Tajimi Samurai
  • エッセイ
    • 多治見​滞在中の過ごし方
    • 薪窯フェア
    • 国際陶磁器フェスティバル美濃 ’24
    • 外国人観光客へのサービスを充実させる取り組み
    • 焼物の町 多治見で茶道のあれこれ (Part 01)
    • 焼物の町 多治見で茶道のあれこれ (PART 2)
    • ​多治見に訪れた人たち、そしてその後
    • 焼物の町、多治見まち歩き 小名田/高田 ​パート1
    • 多治見ウォーキング >
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      • 焼物の町、多治見まち歩き 高田/小名田 ​パート3 水月窯
      • 多治見歴史探索ウォーキング - 土岐川の北側
      • ながせ通りウォーキング 昔の姿に思いを馳せながら
      • おりべストリート周辺 - パート1
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      • 美濃焼物語 (Part 04)
      • 美濃焼物語 (Part 05)
      • 美濃焼ルネッサンスのルーツ
      • 白天目 500年ぶりの再現 PART1
      • 白天目 500年ぶりの再現 PART2
      • 登り窯
      • 焼き物の楽しみ方
      • 幸兵衛窯:伝統と革新の出会い
      • 多治見で作陶
      • 安藤日出武
      • タイルキングダム - 笠原町
      • 陶磁器の本拠地でグランプリを目指せ!
      • 柴田育彦 ボーダーレスな陶芸家
      • 新しい陶磁器産業の形
      • モザイクタイルプリンセス
      • フィンランドと多治見の出会い
      • 陶祖 - 謎めいた名工が遺したもの
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      • 超辛口の日本酒への情熱
      • 多治見のお正月の自然薯料理
    • 東京から多治見へ - PART 1
    • 東京から多治見へ - PART 2
    • 東京から多治見へ - PART 3
    • 厄年の御祈祷 (part 01)
    • 厄年の御祈祷 (part 02)
    • 夏祭り - なんて素敵な夜!
    • 人込みを避けてお花見を満喫しよう
    • 多治見のお祭り
    • シデコブシ 東濃地方の珍しい木蓮の花
    • ビジュアルで2018年の多治見を振り返ろう
    • 多治見の楽しい方言 東濃弁
    • バーチャル・トラベル
    • ビデオ - A DAY IN 多治見
    • 失敗に終わったクーデター
    • 2019年 多治見るこみち イングリッシュ・ガイドツアー
    • アメリカン・ジャパニーズとしての暮らし
    • やくならマグカップも:カッパが登場するシーン
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