KIRIDAS: Totsukawa Woodcraft, Gallery and Weekend Café
Meet the village's woodworkers through locally made furniture and small objects, with café service limited to the operator's stated days.
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KIRIDAS makes Totsukawa's forestry visible in a working place rather than reducing it to a souvenir shelf. Woodworkers from the village use local timber for furniture and everyday objects, display the work in a renovated former sawmill and accept custom-furniture enquiries. The shared site also has a café, but the operator lists that as weekend-only even when the shop itself may be open. Visit as one workshop-gallery complex: a coffee, a piece of woodwork and a glimpse of the production story belong together, while an active factory floor is not automatically open for a public tour.
Read the objects as a forestry story
The operator says KIRIDAS takes its name from the act of cutting timber out of the mountain. Its shop page describes village-made furniture and wooden household goods, plus custom work, while its forestry page explains a local chain from harvesting and processing to selling finished products. That context matters in a village of steep forested terrain: the object is a record of local skills and material choices, not simply a generic 'Japanese craft' purchase. The village independently identifies the site as a gallery and café in Yamasaki.
Separate browsing, coffee and making
The operator's gallery page presents a shop, adjacent café and workshop under one address. It lists coffee and other drinks but no reliable current food menu or prices, so do not promise lunch. It identifies furniture lines and order-made pieces; a visitor can browse the displayed work or ask about commissioning, but the public pages do not publish a fixed hands-on workshop timetable, fee or factory-tour booking. Ask the woodworkers directly if a demonstration or craft activity is available instead of treating working machinery as an unsupervised attraction.
Check the particular day's opening
KIRIDAS's own gallery page says the shop closes every Tuesday and Wednesday and that the café opens only on Saturdays and Sundays. The Nara tourism listing repeats that pattern. The operator website does not state a dependable daily opening-hour range in the text reviewed; its operating calendar and social account may carry exceptions. A village public-facilities page points visitors to Facebook and gives a different contact number from the operator's site. Use the operator's 0746-67-0123 for a current visit or purchase enquiry, and verify any holiday or event before driving from another area.
Approach the Yamasaki building intentionally
The operator gives 278 Yamasaki and a Route 168 approach from Gojō IC, turning after Yamasaki Tunnel. That is a general driving direction, not a live estimate or a surveyed parking entrance. The gallery's map link points near the settlement, but the reviewed pages do not establish the exact number of parking bays, a step-free path, regular bus service or large-coach access. Plan the last part with current navigation and ask the shop if these details matter. Respect signs and workers' space rather than walking from the gallery into an active production area.
What to look for
Village-made furniture and wooden goods in a former sawmill
Forestry, production and retail connected at one site
Weekend-only café distinct from shop opening
Photo notes
No KIRIDAS object, worker or building photograph is licensed to MyNara. Ask the makers before photographing designs or the workshop; do not reproduce their furniture catalog or café imagery.
Make a day of it
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Sources & editorial status
Original MyNara draft based on the linked sources. Sources reviewed 19 October 2026. Opening arrangements, prices and offers may change; use the operator's current information before travelling.