The kilns are gathered in a valley settlement. Hizen-Yoshida ware is made in a hill village in Ureshino, with the potteries concentrated along a single valley rather than spread across a district, so the whole of it can be walked in an afternoon. What each kiln produces differs — painted ware at one, mould-formed pieces at another — so walking between the direct sales shops is a way of seeing the range rather than the same thing repeatedly.

Working from moulds is suited to producing a great many identical pieces, and it has continued here as the technique that allows a small district to supply everyday tableware reliably and at a price people will pay. Ureshino's hot spring quarter is about ten minutes away by car, which has created a natural route through the day: people who came for the baths carry on afterwards to the kilns, and buy something to take home. The Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen connects to Hakata, so for a valley settlement this is an unusually easy place to reach and to leave.

When a large producing district is nearby, a small one survives by taking a different role. Arita and Hasami are the names people know, and Yoshida has held the position of making everyday ware, which keeps its prices within the range of things people actually use rather than display. That is a deliberate position rather than a consolation prize, and it has kept the kilns working through periods that closed more ambitious ones. They are in this particular valley because the clay and the water happened to be here, and neither of those has moved since.