Noritake Garden

ノリタケの森

An old porcelain works: free gardens and a factory tour

⚠ Closed Mondays

Hours

Craft Center and museum 10am–5pm, closed Mondays (next weekday after a holiday) and 26 Dec–3 Jan; gardens always open

Tickets

Gardens free; Craft Center and museum charged (check price on site)

Address

3-1-36 Noritake-shinmachi, Nishi Ward

Noritake, Japan's best-known tableware maker, turned the site of its first factory into a park. Lawns run between century-old red-brick walls and kiln chimneys, and all of that is free. In the Craft Center you watch artisans paint gold rims on plates through the glass, and the museum upstairs shows Meiji-era export pieces known as Old Noritake. If you have time, you can paint a plate yourself.