Udatsu Craft Center
For over 1,500 years Fukui Prefecture has produced traditional handcrafted Echizen washi paper, recognized as being of the highest quality and production standards across Japan. Echizen washi is known for its beauty and durability, and was used in the feudal Edo period for official documents issued by the emperors and shoguns. Visitors can observe traditional craftsmen making washi using traditional tools in a relocated and restored mid Edo period (1700’s) paper-making house. The museum is Japan’s only facility where visitors can see the entire washi making procedure using traditional tools, from raw material processing to papermaking production and sun-drying methods.
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- Fukui
| Website | https://enjoy.pref.fukui.lg.jp/en/spot/spot-100/ |
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| Experience content | The Udatsu Craft Center, located in Echizen Washi Village, is the only place in Japan that makes washi paper entirely in the traditional way. Visitors can watch artisans use old-fashioned tools to prepare and scoop paper fibers, then dry the finished paper in the sun. |
| Price | ¥200 (adults) /free (high-school student or under) *When special exhibitions are held ¥300 *This is the Common admission fee with the Paper Culture Museum. |
| Publication time Opening Hours | 9:30 to 17:00 |
| Closed | Closed: Tuesdays (open if Tuesday is a National Holiday), Year-end and New Year holidays. |
| Merchandise Availability / Food Availability | Merchandise Availability |
| Traffic access | About 40 minutes by Fukutetsu Bus from JR Takefu Station. |
| Contact address | Udatsu Paper & Craft Museum 9-21-2 Shinzaike-cho, Echizen City, Fukui 915-0232 |
| Official website | https://www.echizenwashi.jp/udatsu/ |