Japan Traditional Craft Center

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  • Address
    Metropolitan Plaza Bldg, 1F, 1-11-1 Nishi Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku
  • Phone
    5954 6066
  • Website
  • Transport
    underground rail: JR Yamanote Line or Marunouchi Line to Ikebukuro (Metropolitan exit)

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Lonely Planet review

Operated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, this showroom is less a museum than a resource for working artisans and crafts collectors. You'll find on display some 130 different types of crafts, from lacquerwork boxes to paper, textiles to earthy pottery. You can also buy much the same from the discriminating collection.

If you've recently broken your favourite ceramic cup or damaged your kimono, the centre also conducts repair clinics (which are inside the massive Metropolitan Plaza building).