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A soba-based experience workshop located in the village of the Izu Kogen experience centered on Yawatano Kannon. Using the soba fruit from Horokanai, Hokkaido, you can experience three fresh soba noodles (freshly ground, freshly boiled, boiled) in earnest from where you grind it with a millstone. The duration is about 1 hour and 30 minutes (experience, tasting).

A pottery experience workshop located in the village of the experience, centered on Yawatano Kannon. There are 32 electric potters and 120 hand-rigging seats, so you can feel free to enjoy without an appointment. The most popular electric potter wheel experience is safe because the staff will guide you politely even for the first time at all. Using 1kg of clay, you can make any number of points such as cups, tea cups, and plates. You can enjoy it with your pet dog, a wallow plate 2000 yen. Works are sent in about one and a half months (by shipping cost). It takes 1-2 hours.

You can make your own work by hand. Without thinking that it seems difficult, let's experience production with free thinking. 2000 yen (by shipping).

Experience workshop of glass crafts located in Izu Kogen. In addition to blowing glass, blowing glass to make a shaped glass or vessel, sandblasting experience of using a seal to attach a picture to the vessel, melting a glass rod of your favorite color with a burner and winding it into an iron rod, there was also a ceramic painting experience in which the unglazed dough was freely drawn and stamped with 70 colors of paint. There is also a shop, and you can also purchase works and accessories produced by the writer in the workshop.

When I'm tired of the drive, a little breath. Rest spot where you can enjoy shopping, eating, etc. In the food wing, you can also enjoy seafood bowls unique to Izu, as well as a café menu where you can snack and take out. Because there is a terrace seat, it is also recommended to take a break with a dog. In the market wing, sweets and sea products using the specialty products of Izu are available. Charcoal-grilled seafood barbecue that you can enjoy outdoors is also popular.

A rare museum that specializes in automata. An automata is a karakuri doll created based on the mechanism of a watch, which was the most advanced technology in Europe in the 17th to 19th centuries. It is also called an "automatic machine doll", because of its advanced and artistry. It was loved by the royal nobility and the wealthy of the time. The complex and delicate movements that match the sound of music boxes and whistles, powered by a single mainspring, are also the cornerstone of the movement of the robot, and you can enjoy the fantastic world where automata can be seen by their movements, costumes, subjects, etc.

The museum is marked by a "yammoro tree", which is about 500 years old. There are about 3000 pieces of Chinese art on display, including colorful "tonbo balls", which were born by the hands of ancient people, as well as pottery toys and perfume bottles of the Qing Dynasty nobility. In addition, the original accessory of antique dragonball made in the image of "The Beauty of the Ancient Tower" is 2000 yen ~. You can also use only the stand. Take 30 minutes.

The exhibition focuses on the paintings of the cute cat Akiya Watanabe and the dog painter Kazushi Sakamoto. In the annex, you can wear luxurious dresses and take commemorative photos (from 2000 yen). It takes 30 minutes.

A museum that aims to see cats scientifically and gain familiarity. A world of wild cats whose first floor displays taxidermy including tigers, wildcats and cheetah. The second floor raises the world's cats, about 20 species and 40. You can play with cats in the contact corner. The cat's museum corner displays beckoning cats and stuffed animals. It takes 40 minutes.

It displays about 130 pieces of antique music boxes and self-playing instruments, mainly around 1900. You can also experience various kinds of hand-turned piano. A regular performance of about 30 minutes is held eight times a day (starting from 20 hours every hour, only the final start at 16 o'clock). An unusual high-frequency music box is also introduced. Take one hour.