Tour to see Arita porcelain area of nearby prefecture to Nagasaki. Up at crack.

The tour started with a little bit of rain, then some heavy rain, hail and lightning. First rain of the trip.

Arita porcelain town, museum and craft places factory area kiln visit.

Starts with a bus ride of one hour and 15 minutes. Through many tunnels, cutting the large mountains.

Kusho island museum

Factory and kiln tour after museum. A rather thorough tour of the factory from beginning to end, including details of how the stone is prepared and crushed plates, fired, glazed, decorated, the kiln, and then, of course, the most important part at the end of the tour the shop.

One way to shop is to take a basket and pay a fixed price and you can put in as much stuff in the basket as it fits to the top at that fixed price. Very odd retailing

The firing process here uses reduction rather than oxidation. The gas fire kilns ate reduction.

We ended up with a few pieces