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Culture in Ibaraki

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Fukuda Kilns

Fukuda Kilns

Elysse Hurtado

Fukuda Kiln is one of Kasama’s many intrepid solo kilns, currently run by the 12th generation of the family and covering a sp...

Ibaraki
Holy Connections

Holy Connections

Elysse Hurtado

Hitachi's Izumo Shrine boasts of some of the biggest Shinto shrine attributes in Japan and innovative new practices that coul...

Ibaraki
Mito's Kobuntei

Mito's Kobuntei

Elysse Hurtado

Finally reopened after several long months of reconstruction, Mito’s historically rich Kobuntei could be considered the jewel...

Ibaraki
Kairakuen Garden

Kairakuen Garden

The Kairakuen was built relatively recently, in 1841, by the local prince Tokugawa Nariaki. In contrast to the two other grea...

Ibaraki