DAY1 START!
Access to Shiga Prefecture
Osaka
Hire car/rental car: about 75 minutes
Shiga Prefecture
Rakunyu-Tobo-Kochu'an
Kochu'an is a place where you can truly be yourself again. Away from the busy lifestyle, instead, become one with nature, surrounded on all sides by the mountains of Shigaraki in Koka City, Shiga Prefecture.
At the reservation-only Tea Ceremony and Pottery Making Experience, participants are invited to enjoy understanding the spirit and soul of tea, as well as the joys of shaping clay.


On the same premises
Kochu'an-no-Yado (inn)
A Perfect Inn” Opened by Kochu’an Permeated With the Theme of Pottery and Tea
After some time relaxing, enjoy a tea experience, followed by seasonal cuisine. Guest rooms decorated with the tiles baked in the furnace of Kochu'an reminisce of Taisho-Period aesthetic.






