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Taketomi Mingeikan (Folk Craft Museum)
竹富民芸館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
- Moderate
- Opening hours
- Mon Closed Tue–Sun 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Admission
- explicitly free entry, confirmed by two independent sources, open 9:00-17:00, irregular closures
- Nearest station
- Taketomi Port · ~10 min by rental bicycle
Usual hours — confirm with the official site for holidays + seasonal closures.
Today
10:00–17:00Tue closedMon closedFreeStored weekly hours
Mon Closed Tue–Sun 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
How to get there
in-village weaving workshop/museum, can watch weavers at work
Tags
museumcraftstextile
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