HIDA TAKAYAMA CRAFT EXPERIENCE CENTER — Attraction in Takayama

I came in and was ignored, after a while when trying to make eye contact a young lady came in with bad attitude asking what I want to do. Let me say everything is in Japanese, so unless she explains, I wouldn't know. Long story short, the young lady attitude the whole time whilst explaining how to make the dolls was negative, like if I was an annoyance. I do not recommend the experience here. I'd suggest you book somewhere else. And to the young lady, a class in manners and customer service would make...

We loved doing a craft workshop here, it is one of our favourite things we’ve done in Japan so far. We made some Sarubobo keychains which took about half an hour and we love them! The lady running it was very kind, friendly and patient and spoke enough English for us to understand what to do. The diagrams were very helpful too! Highly recommend popping in here if you’re visiting Hida No Sato, only a 10 minute bus ride from...

We had the best time making our own Sarubobos here! Rather than buying one during our time in Hida Takayama, this was a more meaningful way for us to get one.

The staff was super patient despite us not speaking japanese and she was able to communicate effectively using a mix of simple English instructions and google translate. We had no issues at all and successfully brought home our...