Nara: Chopsticks Making Class with 100-Year-Old Wood

• Carve chopsticks from Nara cedar over a hundred years old, shaped to fit your own hand • Watch a skilled host at work, then make your own pair beside them at your own pace • Learn how chopsticks are used in Japan, and how the types and shapes differ • Learn why Nara's cedar forests matter so much within Japan • Take home a souvenir that nobody else has, because you made it yourself • Choose a deer chopstick rest of Nara pottery to take home as well • Ask your Nara-born host where to go next before you leave - the shops and lanes no guidebook lists