Learn Kintsugi (Japanese gold-repair) in Tokyo

Honest level: Beginner to intermediate — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Tokyo

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Kuge Crafts Studio (Suginami)
  Hands-on kintsugi workshop (bring your own broken pottery)
  Kuge Crafts is a family-run Suginami studio that has practised and taught kintsugi for over 40 years, offering English-friendly hands-on workshops where visitors mend their own broken pottery, though it uses a quick-drying epoxy method rather than full traditional urushi.
  https://www.veltra.com/en/asia/japan/tokyo/a/116573
• Tsugu Tsugu kintsugi school
  Traditional urushi kintsugi course series (Ebisu and Asakusa studios)
  Tsugu Tsugu is a Tokyo kintsugi school with Ebisu and Asakusa studios that teaches exclusively traditional urushi-lacquer kintsugi, from a discovery workshop through multi-session courses that build the full range of food-safe repair techniques.
  https://kintsugi-kit.com/pages/kintsugi-workshops-in-tokyo

The credential

Recognition by a master urushi artisan / completed traditional urushi-kintsugi apprenticeship · Certifying body: Traditional urushi-shi (lacquer master) apprenticeship lineage; no single national grading body

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Kintsugi (Japanese gold-repair)

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.