Chopstick-Making Workshop in Tokyo
Last updated: September 13, 2026
Shape your own pair of wooden chopsticks at Chopsticks Studio in Tokyo's Ginza, guided step by step by an artisan from a woodcraft company with some ninety years of history. You choose the wood, then plane and smooth the blank with traditional tools while learning why chopsticks carry the cultural weight they do in Japan — a relaxed, beginner-friendly hour of real craftsmanship. The finished pair goes home with you the same day, a souvenir shaped by your own hands.
Itinerary
- Stop at: Chopsticks Studio Ginza
Frequently Asked Questions
None at all — the workshop is built for beginners and travellers. The artisan demonstrates each step and guides you through the planing and smoothing, and the session runs a relaxed 45 minutes to an hour.
A full pair of chopsticks, worked from a wooden blank with traditional hand tools. The studio stocks 26 kinds of wood in two lengths, so the pair you carve is genuinely yours — grain, weight and fit — and you take it home the same day.
On the ground floor of the Kusumoto No.17 Building in Ginza 1-chome, a few minutes' walk from Ginza-itchome Station, with Kyobashi and Yurakucho stations also within easy walking distance.