Japan Guide
Central Honshū
Noritake Garden
The former factory and grounds of the celebrated china manufacturer have been transformed into a very pleasant park within which you'll find a craft centre (daily 10am–5pm; ¥500 or ¥800 for joint entry with the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology) where you can watch pottery being created and try your own hand at painting a plate (¥1600). In a 1904-vintage brick building the Morimura-Okura Museum Canvas (daily 10am–5pm; free) reveals in ingenious ways the history and science involved in the ceramics technologies of the Morimura group (of which Noritake is a member). Elsewhere on the spacious, green site there is a good café, a gallery of modern pottery and showrooms where you can buy Noritake products.
052/561-7114 
www.noritake.co.jp