Ancient style item making experience (Hakodate Jomon Culture Center)
古代のものづくり体験（函館市縄文文化交流センター） / Kodaino Monodukuri Taiken
Ancient style item making experience (Hakodate Jomon Culture Center)
古代のものづくり体験（函館市縄文文化交流センター） / Kodaino Monodukuri Taiken
You can enjoy various hands-on activities at the Hakodate Jomon Culture Center, which exhibits a national-treasure clay figure made about 3,500 years ago. You can purchase a ticket for your desired hands-on activity at the reception counter at the entrance, and go to the hands-on lab.
[Main hands-on activities]
Magadama (comma-shaped bead) crafting. (You can make a stringed-pendant by shaving and shaping a bead.)
Angin knitting (You can knit colorful strings and make a strap, etc.)
Miniature pottery (You can make pottery in the traditional Jomon way and make rope-patterns on the suface of the pottery.) Note: This hands-on activity is temporarily not offered.
Hours
- April - October; 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, November - March; 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Holidays
every Monday (closed the next day if Monday are national holidays), & last Friday, Dec. 29 - Jun. 3
Fee
Admission: 300 yen, Magadama; 150 yen, Angin knitting; 100yen
Payment
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Phone
Address
551-1 Usujiricho, Hakodate
744 053 054*06
Access from Hakodate Station
- 80 minutes by bus to the "Kakinoshima Iseki-shita" bus stop
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10 minutes on foot
*Please check with the bus center in front of Hakodate Station for details.
(It takes about 50 minutes by car)
Parking
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Website
To call from abroad to Hakodate
- 1. Dial the international dialing access code and Japan's country code (81). See here
- 2. Drop the first 0 and dial everything else. For example, to call the Japanese number 0138-00-0000 from the US, dial 011-81-138-00-0000.
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