Tokoname: City of Ceramics Past and Present

Chubu Centrair International Airport is built on an artificial island off the Chita Peninsula in Aichi Prefecture, to the south of Nagoya. The architecture is contemporary but the interior has been laid out with many traditional Japanese design elements. From the airport, it takes just five minutes by train to reach Tokoname, one of Japan's longtime centers for traditional pottery. Just about everything in the city is connected with ceramics production. On this edition of Journeys in Japan, Estella Mak first looks around Centrair Airport, before moving on to explore Tokoname.

Release Date: 2010-02-02
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
TMDb: 9.0/10
  • Country: JP
  • Language: 日本語 | English
  • Runtime: 28

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