Hello everyone, this is Staff Y.

He has lived in Nagoya for 15 years, but it seems that there are still places he has never visited. I went to “Noritake Garden” for the first time.

The other day, I talked about sightseeing in Nagoya, but when I visited Nagoya, it was close to Nagoya Station, and I really wanted you to visit it, so let me introduce it. Today is the eye of the photo.

Noritake is a domestic ceramics manufacturer that manufactures Western-style tableware that you all know.

In 1874 (Meiji 9), former merchant Ichizaemon Morimura, who was aspiring to trade abroad, founded Morimura Gumi in Ginza, Tokyo, and wanted to start manufacturing and exporting Western tableware in Japan. , Established “Nippon Seito Co., Ltd.” (currently Noritake Company Limited). The history of Noritake begins with a single dinner plate made there in 1904.

Staff Y, for the first time, I went to the Noritake Museum on the premises.

Inside the museum, there is a corner explaining the manufacturing process of pottery, an experience space, and the old Noritake. I saw a work that made full use of techniques such as gold dot decoration. The footprints of Japanese craftsmen trying to get closer to Western tableware, yet the Japanese delicacy was everywhere, and it was really wonderful.

We also exhibited dinner wear that was once produced, and we were able to find some nostalgic series that were once in our home. You may find one of “This is at home!”

On October 5, 2001 (Heisei 13), as a commemorative project for the 100th anniversary of Noritake Garden Co., Ltd., on the premises of the former head office including such a museum, a complex related to ceramics was created in this area, the birthplace of the modern ceramic industry. Opened the facility “Noritake no Mori”.

This facility is a 12-minute walk from Nagoya Station, a 6-minute walk from Kamejima Station, and a 10-minute walk from Sakou Station. Based on the concept of a culture zone where you can meet culture, a commercial zone where you can enjoy your life, and a historical zone where you can feel the history, we have taken measures to discover new domestic demand, develop new commercial facilities that are different from the past, and “workers and companies. We are aiming for a new district that aims to integrate “offices that support growth”.

At the end of last year, a commercial facility was opened in it, and it seems that this “forest” is still evolving.

When I visit, the line between sightseeing, shopping, eating, working, and living is very vague. The overall concept of the new facility, which is a complex of all of them, was the impression that “a place where you can enjoy nature, enjoy, relax, work and live”.

Moreover, everywhere in the forest, there is a glimpse of the history of Noritake, which has been and will continue to exist.

Former red brick building made of red brick (former soil factory) (built in 1897)

6 chimneys (traces of tunnel kiln chimneys for firing ceramics) (built in 1933)

Red Brick Architecture (former Ceramic Center) (built at the end of the Meiji era)

The following buildings in Noritake Garden have been certified as certified regional building assets in Nagoya City in June 2012. This is a building that meets the registration requirements for registered regional building assets (buildings with landscape and cultural value that are more than 50 years old) and that characterize the historical and cultural landscape of the area. It seems to be a certification issued to the target.

In addition, as a group of modern industrial heritage that tells the history of the modernization of the ceramic industry in Chubu, Kinki, and Sanin due to the development of export products and the expansion of domestic demand, each building in Noritake Garden has been certified and awarded from various perspectives. It seems that they have won the award. In December 2018, the city of Nagoya has been accredited by the citizen green space certification system focusing on green spaces such as “citizen green space”, and it has become a place that is widely loved by citizens as a valuable green space in the center of Nagoya city. The social and environmental green space of the Urban Greening Organization, which has been evaluated and recognized as a valuable environmental resource that is excellent in “openness,” “safety,” and “consideration for the environment,” and gives people peace and relaxation. It seems that it has received awards from various fields such as new attempts in urban design such as “City Oasis 2019” certification, landscape design, and contribution to green spaces.

Based on these various awards, is this forest a new city, a green space that brings relaxation, a facility that preserves cultural and historical value, and a commercial area for living? After all, the boundary line is ambiguous. The ambiguity made me feel at home, but it seems that I am aiming for a “forest” that aims to integrate all of them (whether the ambiguity is a good expression).

And, after all, the appearance of the former chimneys and pottery kilns still quietly watching over the people who spend various time in the forest was very impressive, and it was an ideal appearance.

What you do here is up to you.

Please visit “Noritake no Mori” when you visit Nagoya.

Well then, good luck.