This hill town produces 13% of the tableware used every day in Japan.
The village, clinging to a slope of the small town of Hasami, still produces pottery in its climbing kilns today: Hasami as a whole, never allowed to sign its own pieces as the neighbouring and more prestigious Arita did (in Saga, not here), today makes about 13% of the tableware that ends up every day on Japanese tables.
A pottery district from the Edo period, historically a subcontractor for Arita-yaki: after the food scandals of 2002, which imposed stricter branding rules, local producers built a brand of their own, focusing on low-cost everyday tableware, now also sold by large retail chains. The ruins of the old Hizen-Hasami kilns are a National Historic Site.
ℹ️ You visit the village by walking freely through its lanes; the individual workshops and kilns keep their own hours.
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