Urushi no Sato Kaikan

**Book the hands-on session ahead.** Painting, chinkin gold inlay and wiped-lacquer work are all offered by reservation. Turning up hoping to join one does not work. **Watch the craftsmen next door.** The adjoining workshop building has designated traditional craftsmen working in view. That is more informative than the display panels. **The shop is the reason to come for most people.** Over a thousand items from the local cooperative, at production-district prices rather than department-store ones. **Only the fourth Tuesday closes it.** An unusual schedule, and worth noting because it is otherwise open every day. **Combine with Sabae's other industry.** The Megane Museum is fifteen minutes away in the same city. Lacquer and spectacles in one afternoon is a strange and accurate portrait of Sabae.