About
Resident carving artist in his 80s who hand-engraves custom designs on metal items like camera bodies, pen cases, toolboxes, mugs, and tea caddies. The process takes 15-20 minutes per item, and he signs and dates his work. The engraving costs 10,000 yen (approx. $60 USD). His son often handles communication via Instagram or WhatsApp if Ding is unavailable.
Why go
- Get a unique, hand-engraved souvenir
- Witness a master artist at work
Must try
- Custom engraving on metal items
- Camera bodies, pen cases, mugs
Pro tips
- Engraving takes 15-20 minutes per item
- Son handles comms via instagram/whatsapp
- Find studio across from yokohama kuan ti temple
Save places like this with mio
mio turns the TikTok and Instagram travel videos you save into a map of places to go. Share a video and mio pulls out every spot in it, tips included.
The tips on this page came from travel videos people saved to mio.
Rating
3.4 / 5 (11 reviews)