【Hifu Town/Craft Experience】Collecting Chishima bamboo with craftsmen from the northern bamboo workshop coffee time with a spectacular view
Why don't you go into the mountains with a bamboo craftsman and experience collecting "Thousand Island bamboo", which is the material for making bamboo baskets?
This is a full-fledged work experience by a bamboo craftsman in Hifu Town.
We will accompany the collection of “Chishima bamboo”, which is the material for bamboo baskets, and observe “higo making”.
After work, enjoy a special time to enjoy coffee at the top of the mountain with a spectacular view.
Attraction of the experience and recommended points
1. Full-fledged work experience to learn the origin of “basket” making
Together with bamboo craftsmen living in Hifu Town, you will go into the mountains and experience the collection of Chishimazasa, which is essential for making bamboo baskets.
It is a special time where you can not only collect materials, but also feel how Chishima bamboo grows and breathes life into bamboo baskets,
the cycle of life, and the hard work of craftsmen.
2. Feel with all five senses! Local Chishima bamboo and craftsmanship
The “bamboo” used in the experience is Chishima bamboo, which grows naturally in Hifu Town and Asahikawa City.
You can get a close look at what kind of place and what kind of bamboo the craftsman chooses, the professional perspective, and feel the origin of tailoring it into a bamboo basket with all five senses.
You can also observe a powerful demonstration of the most important work, “higo making”.
*”Higo” is an important material that is the basis of bamboo craftsmanship by shaving bamboo stems into thin and thin shaved shaved into weaving materials.
3. Blissful coffee time brewed by artisans on a mountain with a good view
After sweating from the work, you can enjoy freshly brewed coffee on the mountain with a good view.
Let’s brew and drink it using a bamboo dripper woven by craftsmen with Thousand Island bamboo.
Experience schedule
| substance | |
| (1) Gathering | Gather on-site at Pippu Ski Resort Inagamedai |
| (2) Experience | Enter the bamboo bush and experience cutting the bamboo |
| (3) Observation | Observe a demonstration of turning the harvested Chishima bamboo into a higo |
| (4) Experience | will make an original furoshiki by brush drawing book dyeing |
| (5) Tasting | will have coffee brewed with a coffee dripper woven from Chishima bamboo |
| (6) Termination | Disbanded on site |
Basic Info
- Fee
- 6,000 yen (tax included)
- Age
- 13 years old~
- Time required
- Approx. 2 hours
- Capacity
- 1~10 people
- Experience Period
- Closed on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of mid-September ~ late
November - Reservation Deadline
- 7日前の12時まで
- Meeting Point
- Pippu Inagamedai
〒078-0327 Approximately 40 minutes
by car from Kita-Asahikawa
Station, Hifu-cho, Kamikawa-gun, Hokkaido *Only those who can meet on-site can participate (no shuttle-up) - Meeting time
- (1)9:00 ➁10:00 (3)13:00 ➃14:00Please
meet at least 10 minutes before the start of the experience. - Parking lot
- Yes (free, no reservation required)
- Clothing and belongings
- Clothing to be worn in the mountains (long sleeves, long pants),
boots or hiking boots, non-slip gloves, hats, or helmets.
Please bring a drink if you need it. - Cancellation Policy
- Please check here for the cancellation policy.
- What's included in your booking
- Experience fee, insurance, coffee fee
- Languages
- Japanese
