【Hifu Town/Craft Experience】Collecting Chishima bamboo with craftsmen from the northern bamboo workshop coffee time with a spectacular view

This is a full-fledged work experience by a bamboo craftsman in Hifu Town.
We will accompany the collection of “Chishima bamboo”, which is the material for bamboo baskets, and observe “higo making”.
After work, enjoy a special time to enjoy coffee at the top of the mountain with a spectacular view.

Attraction of the experience and recommended points

1. Full-fledged work experience to learn the origin of “basket” making

Together with bamboo craftsmen living in Hifu Town, you will go into the mountains and experience the collection of Chishimazasa, which is essential for making bamboo baskets.
It is a special time where you can not only collect materials, but also feel how Chishima bamboo grows and breathes life into bamboo baskets,
the cycle of life, and the hard work of craftsmen.

2. Feel with all five senses! Local Chishima bamboo and craftsmanship

The “bamboo” used in the experience is Chishima bamboo, which grows naturally in Hifu Town and Asahikawa City.
You can get a close look at what kind of place and what kind of bamboo the craftsman chooses, the professional perspective, and feel the origin of tailoring it into a bamboo basket with all five senses.
You can also observe a powerful demonstration of the most important work, “higo making”.
*”Higo” is an important material that is the basis of bamboo craftsmanship by shaving bamboo stems into thin and thin shaved shaved into weaving materials.

3. Blissful coffee time brewed by artisans on a mountain with a good view

After sweating from the work, you can enjoy freshly brewed coffee on the mountain with a good view.
Let’s brew and drink it using a bamboo dripper woven by craftsmen with Thousand Island bamboo.

Experience schedule

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	substance
(1) Gathering	Gather on-site at Pippu Ski Resort Inagamedai
(2) Experience	Enter the bamboo bush and experience cutting the bamboo
(3) Observation	Observe a demonstration of turning the harvested Chishima bamboo into a higo
(4) Experience	will make an original furoshiki by brush drawing book dyeing
(5) Tasting	will have coffee brewed with a coffee dripper woven from Chishima bamboo
(6) Termination	Disbanded on site