Traveling to Tokonamae City - Pottery

Men's Style Gum....and oh was it.

Seriously, I don't know how Japanese people stay so skinny!! Today I woke up to a wonderful breakfast and of course I ate it all....I feel obligated to take everything they give me. I had watermelon, 2 eggs, ham, 2 sugary waffle thingys, liquid yogurt, broccoli & Orange Juice. MMMmmm it was good though.

Today we drove about an hour by car to Tokonamae City which is one of the biggest pottery towns in Japan. It was so cute, I would love to spend my retired years here in a little studio making pottery (since pottery is was I study). We got a tour through this little pottery village, with small little roads and cute studios every where. It was a very old town, 100s of years old. The cool thing is they use all this old clay piping for retaining walls instead of brick.

Or they also use old sakie jugs or sulfuric acid jugs, it was a wonderful sight.

They use pots for everything, here's a wall

This place really was amazing for the pottery enthusiast. They had fired clay everywhere, I can't even explain to its full extent. Only pictures will do. Another amazing part was they converted a lot of their old soda kilns into shops. And these kilns were huge!! 20 foot tall with years of soda accumulation on the walls, it was a beautiful sight.

Next we went to this tile manufacture and museum. This was pretty cool to see but they weren't really geared towards English so we just stumbled around.

I bought so much today though; I only wonder how I’m going to get all this fragile pottery home to America. Great ;)

lol, so we bought some gum today which was called Men’s style, it was hilarious. I chewed a lot of it so apparently I have men’s style now. Just thought you'd like to know.