Baizan-Gama (Kiln)

Baizan-Gama is one of the most respected kilns producing Tobe-yaki, the blue-and-white ceramics that have defined this Ehime mountain town since the late Edo period. You can tour the hillside facilities and watch potters shaping clay on wheels and painters applying the characteristic indigo motifs of birds, flowers, and geometric patterns. Hands-on workshops let you throw or paint your own piece, which is then fired and shipped to your address. The showroom carries the full range of production from everyday teacups to larger decorative works, all at kiln-direct prices. The setting among mandarin orange groves adds to a half-day that feels genuinely removed from the tourist circuit.