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Tour Highlights

• Choose from approximately 15 modern designs for your personalized cast aluminum cutlery rest.

• Using a hammer for engraving, personalize your cutlery rest with names, initials, dates, or unique patterns.

• Tour traditional sand casting foundry with a history dating back to 1714, currently operational since 1971.

• Observe the melting and casting process at 15:00, subject to the manufacturing schedule, with alternative tours available.

• Experience crafting with traditional sand casting techniques and materials refined to Japanese industrial standards, ensuring durability and safety for food contact.

• Create a cutlery rest from recycled aluminum used in newspaper printing, melted at around 800℃, making it a sustainable and auspicious gift or talisman.

• Enjoy the unique and satisfying sound of manual engraving during the creation process.

Workshop Agenda

Name Engraving Experience

Selection Phase: Choose your preferred design from about 15 modern cast aluminum cutlery rest options.

Engraving Workshop: Engage in a hands-on engraving session where you'll use a hammer to imprint letters and numbers onto your chosen cutlery rest. Personalize your item with a unique pattern, name, initials, a significant date such as a birthday or anniversary, or even a serial number.

Tour of a Traditional Sand Casting Foundry

Foundry Tour Introduction: Visit a traditional sand-casting foundry with a lineage dating back to 1714 and learn about its operations since its modern inception in 1971.

Melting and Casting Demonstration: Scheduled for 15:00, watch the fascinating metal melting and casting process. Note that the exact timing of this activity may vary based on the manufacturing schedule. Should any changes occur, a comprehensive tour of the foundry and its various processes will be provided as an alternative.

Essentials to Know Before Booking

• Reservation: Select participants, date, and start time online; call if past the deadline (TEL 076-267-3003).

• Experience Days: Weekdays, some Saturdays; max 30 people; check the calendar.

• Times/Duration: 10:00, 13:00, 15:00 starts; 30 minutes

• Age: 3+ years; guardians for children; wear suitable shoes for foundry visits.

• Cutlery Rest: Various designs; aluminum alloy; round, square, Kamahachi sizes.

• Location: 6-100 Matsumura, Kanazawa; parking for seven cars; 8-min walk from "Kannondo" bus stop.

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