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Taketomi Mingeikan (Folk Craft Museum)
竹富民芸館Okinawa · Okinawa
A free-admission workshop-museum on Taketomi Island where visitors watch artisans hand-weave Yaeyama minsā — the traditional indigo-dyed cotton textile with a symbolic five-and-four stripe pattern — using dyes made from island-grown plants.
- Crowd level
- Hidden gem
- Nearest station
- Taketomi Port · ~10 min by rental bicycle
How to get there
in-village weaving workshop/museum, can watch weavers at work
Tags
museumcrafttextile
Location
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