"Yonezawa Ori" hand -woven, dyed experience
Experience Yonezawa Textiles Easily
Yonezawa textiles trace their origins to Uesugi Yoshinobu, who developed them as a cottage industry for samurai wives to promote local industry, boasting over 200 years of tradition.
Visitors can easily experience traditional hand-weaving using high looms, as well as plant-based dyeing using natural dyes like madder and safflower, making it a popular activity for educational tours.
- Category
- Activities
- History and Culture
General Information
- Address
- 山形県米沢市御廟一丁目2-37（染織工房わくわく館）、米沢市松が岬2-3-36（紅花染 新田）
- Prices
- Safflower-dyed Handkerchief: ¥1,100
Handwoven Coaster: ¥1,100
Other offerings include scarf dyeing and handwoven tapestries
Included in the price: Experience fee, take-home item - Opening Times
- Dyeing Workshop Wakuwaku-kan
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Safflower Dyeing Nitta
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
Operating Period: Year-round (Reservations required) - Closures
- Wakuwaku-kan Dyeing and Weaving Studio Wednesday (Closed Sundays and holidays from December to March)
- Directions
- Approximately 10 minutes by car from JR Yamagata Shinkansen Yonezawa Station.
- Car Park
- Wakuwaku-kan Dyeing and Weaving Studio: 10 vehicles (large buses permitted) Safflower Dyeing Nitta: 10 vehicles
- Official Website
- Waku Waku Hall Homepage
- Duration
- Wakuwaku-kan Textile Studio
Handweaving, Safflower Dyeing: Approximately 30 minutes each
Safflower Dyeing Nitta
Safflower Dyeing (Includes factory tour on weekdays): Approximately 45 minutes
Contact
- Contact
- Yonezawa City Tourism and Convention Association
- Telephone Number
- 0238-21-6226
- Fax Number
- 0238-22-2042
- E-mail address
- yozan@abeam.ocn.ne.jp
