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Nakasu-Kawabata, Hakata, Fukuoka
Suzukake has made Hakata wagashi since 1923, working from the teachings of first-generation master Saburo Nakaoka. The Nakasu-Kawabata main shop pairs a confectionery counter with a tearoom serving seasonal sweets that rotate monthly.
Best for Seasonal Hakata wagashi and a tearoom
Shime Town, Kasuya-gun, Fukuoka
Shibata Tamaki is the 18th-generation maker of Hakata magemono in Shime Town near Fukuoka Airport, bending cedar and cypress and binding it with cherry bark, no metal. The craft became a Fukuoka Intangible Cultural Property in March 2025, with her named its holder.
Best for Craft became a Fukuoka Intangible Cultural Property in March 2025
Hakata magemono — curved woodwork bent from thin boards of cedar or cypress and bound with strips of cherry bark, without a single metal fastener — has been made in Fukuoka for more than 400 years, and the Shibata family workshop carries an unbroken line through that history. Shibata Tamaki, born Mariko in 1961 in Hakata's Bashio district, took up the craft seriously after finishing junior college in 1981, working alongside her father, the 17th-generation Shibata Tamaki. After his death in 1996 she renamed the workshop Hakata Magemono Tamaki and moved it to Shime Town, near Fukuoka Airport; she formally took the name and title of 18th generation in 2007. In March 2025, Hakata magemono was designated a Fukuoka Prefecture Intangible Cultural Property, with Shibata Tamaki recognized as the holder of the technique.
Her workshop turns the wood into bento boxes, rice tubs, flower vases, dippers, offering stands and tea-ceremony implements, alongside custom commissions, and she has shown individually in Tokyo and Kyoto while keeping the craft grounded in daily use rather than display alone. She also demonstrates the technique in public every Thursday at the Hakata Machiya Furusato-kan folk museum, one of the few regular chances to watch the bending and binding done by hand.
2514-3 Koishiwara-tsuzumi, Toho-mura, Asakura-gun, Fukuoka 838-1602, Japan / Toho Village (Koishiwara) / Japan
Kiln opened Showa 49 / 1974 by Wada Yonetoshi; second generation Wada Yoshihiro still throws Koishiwara ware for daily use.
Best for Koishiwara ware thrown for daily use by a second-generation potter.
1-10-46 Sakurazaka, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0024, Japan / Fukuoka / Japan
The Sakurazaka gallery Kaigeido opened to exhibit and sell the Hakata ningyo of Nakamura Shinkyō and Nakamura Hiromine, a multi-generation Hakata doll house founded 1917.
Best for Hakata dolls from a multi-generation house founded in 1917.
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