At Organic Table Botanica, you can experience making delicious plant-based flower cookies that are good for your body and the planet. This is only available from Bamboo Tour. You will be served their popular vegetarian lunch (meat dishes available). The cookies contain only healthy ingredients such as sake lees from local sake breweries, nuts, coconut oil, without white sugar, butter nor eggs. By choosing, you can contribute to the green planet and the welfare of the animals.  Veganism is now spreading all over the world!

Recently, the J-pop group, Arashi became obsessed with the Takehara bamboo pinwheels. Bamboo is attracting attention as an eco-friendly material recently. It is light and easy to bend. It's traditionally been used for baskets and toys since ancient times. While there are concerns about the environmental and health impacts of petroleum-based plastics, it's good to know the potential of bamboo while interacting with a local bamboo craftsman legend.

At Pottery Studio Fudo, you can make pottery by hand. The method of hand-pinching is to roll the clay into a thin stick and layer it to create a shape. Cheaply mass-produced tableware is not well made and they tend to break quicker. 

 But if you experience making ceramics by hand, you will understand that it takes a lot of processes to make a single bowl. Then you will look after it and it will have a longer life.

Takehara is known as 'Little Kyoto' because of its history of prospering as a manor of Shimogamo Shrine in Kyoto during the Heian period. The Townscape Preservation District has been selected as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. The old townscape is made of natural materials such as local wood and soil to cope with its climate. It is a well-known fact that wooden buildings emit less CO2 during manufacturing, and the more they continue to be recycled also makes them more eco-friendly. The warmth of nature and the beauty of its history can be found here.