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Cooking classes you can attend just once
ABC Cooking Studio (SHINJUKU TAKASHIMAYA TIMES SQUER Studio)
These classes teach you how to prepare meals and make bread and cakes. You can choose which lessons you want to attend from a rich variety of courses incorporating the latest food trends. The studio also offers one-day lessons that anyone can easily attend.
2-min. walk from Shinjuku Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line and the Toei Oedo Line
＜Trial lesson (for first timers only)＞
Fee: 550 yen (tax included)
*Lessons must be booked in advance via the Booking Form on the studio’s official website or by telephone.
Operating hours: [Weekdays] 10:00–22:00, [Saturdays] 10:00–22:00, [Sundays] 10:00–19:00
Address: 12F Shinjuku Takashimaya Times Square, 5-24-2 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku
Inquiries: 050-1754-4535
A pottery experience you can casually try
Uzumako Ceramic Art School
In the one-day pottery trial class you can make various ceramics in an hour and try your hand at making a clay pot or tile painting. You can even try pottery with your pet! Anyone aged 5 years or older can participate, and English instruction is also available.
6-min. walk from Shibakoen Station on the Toei Mita Line
6-min. walk from Mita Station on the Toei Mita Line and the Toei Asakusa Line
6-min. walk from Akabanebashi Station on the Toei Oedo Line
＜Trial class＞
Pottery experience (electric potter’s wheel course)
Fee: 3,960 yen (tax included) + firing cost
*Various other trial courses are also available.
*Classes must be booked in advance via the Booking Form on the school’s official website or by telephone.
Operating hours: 10:00–19:00
Address: 1F Shimizu House, 3-29-11 Shiba, Minato-ku
Inquiries: 03-6809-6363
Pottery-making starting with clay-crushing
Tuchinoco Workshop
This class begins with crushing clay for making pottery pieces. Since classes are private, the entire workshop is yours to relax and enjoy pottery-making. Freely choose ceramics to make ranging from plates, cups, and planter pots to figurines (including haniwa) and sculptures.
6-min. walk from Odai Stop on the Tokyo Sakura Tram (Toden Arakawa Line)
＜Trial class＞
Pottery-making experience
Fee: From 3,500 yen (tax included) + firing cost
*Fees differ depending on class content and the number of participants.
For the handwork trial class, the minimum participant age is 4 years. For the electric potter’s wheel course, the minimum participant age is 6 years.
*Lessons must be booked in advance via the Booking Form on the school’s official website.
Address: Kopo Shoji 102, 4-12-34 Nishiogu, Arakawa-ku
Making Edo Kiriko glassware, a traditional Japanese handicraft
Sokichi Kiriko Workshop
Learn how to cut glass using the kiriko technique. You can choose your favorites from more than ten glass types and tens of pattern designs to create an original glass that is unique in the world.
3-min. walk from Asakusa Station on the Toei Asakusa Line
＜Trial class＞
Kiriko glassware trial class: 90 minute course
Fee: [Adults] 3,630 yen (tax included); [Children aged 18 years or younger]: 2,860 yen (tax included)
*A two-hour course and a lecture + trial class course are also available.
*Children aged younger than 9 years may participate if accompanied by an adult.
*Classes must be booked in advance via the Booking Form on the school’s official website or by telephone.
Operating hours: 9:00–18:00
Address: Shiho Residence, 2-1-14 Kaminarimon, Taito-ku
Inquiries: 03-6802-8948
Have the experience of making your very own lamp
ZAKURO lamp shop handicraft workshop
These Turkish lamp-making classes are taught by instructors with Turkish government certification. Have the experience of making your own unique mosaic lamp in around two to three hours using techniques passed down from the days of the Ottoman Empire.
6-min. walk from Nippori Station on the Nippori-Toneri Liner
＜Trial class＞
Stand light making
Fee: Small stand light class: 6,150 yen (tax included)
*Various other trial classes are also available.
*Participants cannot be accompanied by children aged 10 or younger.
*Classes must be booked in advance via the Booking Form on the school’s official website or by telephone.
Operating hours: [Weekdays] 11:00–18:00;
[Weekends/public holidays] 11:00–19:00
*Closed on Wednesdays
Address: 3-15-5 Nishi-Nippori, Arakawa-ku (within Yanaka Ginza shopping street)
Inquiries: 03-3822-0610
Experience ice-skating on real ice!
KOSÉ MIDTOWN ICE RINK
One of the largest outdoor ice-skating rinks in central Tokyo only appears for a limited period each year. This year the rink has been specially outfitted through a collaboration with Kosé Corporation. Enjoy an experience here that only this season and this location can provide.
Photograph courtesy of the TOKYO MIDTOWN
6-min. walk from Roppongi Station on the Toei Oedo Line
Event period: until February 24 (Monday/substitute public holiday)
Operating hours: 11:00–21:00 (Entry closes at 20:00)
Fee: [Weekdays] Adults 1,800 yen / Children 1,200 yen [Weekends/public holidays] Adults 2,000 yen / Children 1,400 yen
Address: Tokyo Midtown Garden (Lawn Square), 9-7-1 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Inquiries: 03-3475-3100