Green Tea Newbies (16) Teapot Walking in Tokoname 常滑、急須の里めぐり

Teapot Walking will be held this year 2015 on October 16th,17th and 18th. Please visit Tokoname if you have time! Tokoname had one of the oldest pottery kilns in Japan. Now the city is famous for producing ceramic teapots. Although the potters of Tokoname still keep excellent skills of using pottery wheel, the city has lost its former prosperity and large kilns with brick smokestacks are left abandoned. In 2013 and 2014, to attract tourists and promote Tokoname teapots, an