Coworking & Café Yuinowa

Yuki City

Western Ibaraki

Crafts

Other

Coworking & Café Yuinowa is a coworking space and café renovated from a 90-year-old former kimono store, and it also offers activities such as walking around town in a Yuki-tsumugi Haori (traditional Japanese jacket).

Yuki-tsumugi is the oldest silk fabric in Japan with a history of over 2,000 years, produced mainly in Yuki City, and is registered as an UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage.

You can experience Japanese culture on a deeper level by renting a Haori made from precious materials and strolling through the nostalgic streets lined with shops selling local products, stylish cafés, and sake breweries. Please inquire about rentals in advance via the facility's website.

Information

Address: Ibaraki, Yuki, Yuki 183
Access: By public transport: 8 minutes on foot from Yuki Station
By car: 45 minutes from the Goka IC on the Ken-O Expressway
Business Hours: 10:00 - 17:00
Closed: Sundays, 1st Monday of the month
Website: https://yukientabi.studio.site/program
Contact: 0296-47-5680
yukientabi@gmail.com
Parking: Standard-sized cars: 7
Microbuses: Not allowed
Large buses: Not allowed

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Makabe Hina Doll Festival

In Japan, hina dolls were traditionally displayed to celebrate Girl's Day in early March. Locals started the Makabe Hina Doll Festival to encourage visitors to the historic town during the colder winter months.
During the festival, residents and businesses create elaborate displays of traditional hina dolls in their homes and shops. Visitors are free to enter to see these magnificent displays. Many of the dolls have been passed down through families for generations.
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Tsumugi Silk Museum

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The museum houses a gallery, Yuki-tsumugi exhibition, and a craft studio where visitors can participate in weaving and dyeing workshops. There are also various seasonal events during the year, including hand-dyeing yukata (light cotton kimono) workshops and unique displays for Hina Matsuri (Girl's Day Festival) in spring.

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Aoki Sake Brewery

Founded in 1831, Aoki Sake Brewery is currently the only sake brewer in Koga City that performs all of the operations from brewing the sake to selling and also continues to preserve the local flavor. The building, a merchant-style structure with a doma (earthen-floor entrance), is over 100 years old, and the red brick walls, common in Koga—a region historically known for brick production—create a nostalgic atmosphere, as if stepping back in time. Sake made from local rice such as Nipponbare and Hitachi-Nishiki, grown in the rich soil of Ibaraki Prefecture, all have a crisp taste and have won them numerous awards in Japan.
There is also a store, and you can visit the brewery and taste the sake, so please inquire in advance.

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