Seki Knife Making Day Tour: Knife Making, Lunch & Blade Heritage
- 5 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Go beyond a simple knife-sharpening or engraving workshop. Create your own full-size Damascus Japanese kitchen knife through polishing, hand-drawn blade design, etching, sharpening, and test cutting with guidance from a master craftsman with over 50 years of experience. Your handwritten name, message, symbol, or small artwork becomes part of the finished blade through the etching process. Your design is revealed together with the beautiful Damascus pattern. In Seki, one of Japan’s most historic Sword Town —you will complete your own Damascus kitchen knife, enjoy a local Japanese lunch, and discover the culture behind Japanese blades. Choose from Santoku, Gyuto, Nakiri, or Bunka, depending on availability. Each guest is guided step by step at their own pace, making the experience suitable even for beginners. At the end, test the sharpness of your finished knife on fresh vegetables and take home both your Damascus knife and a deeper appreciation of Seki’s blade-making tradition.
Inclusions
What's included
- Hands-on polishing, hand-drawn blade design, Damascus etching, sharpening, and test cutting
- Licensed transportation driver in Luxury Vehicle
- Certificate of completion
- Choice of Santoku, Gyuto, Nakiri, or Bunka, subject to availability
- Japanese traditional cuisine with local fresh vegetables
- Full-size Damascus kitchen knife to complete and take home
- Personal instruction from a master knife craftsman with over 50 years of experience
- English-speaking guide and support throughout the tour
Itinerary
Make Your Own Samurai Knife at the Knife Museum in Seki city, Gifu pref. You can see several kind of rare and unique knives all over the world. You can have experience for making your own knife with craftsman as your treasure of Japanese memory. G.SAKAI is a leadingJapanese knife producer with trade partners all over the world. The variety of their products and their high-quality knives have been acknowledged by many customers around the globe, in fact they exhibited at the Milan trade fair "Salone del Mobile Milano"in 2017-the global benchmark event for the furnishing and design sector. G.SAKAI's knives are now used in various professional fields, such as cookery, hunting, outdoor sports, and even military training. In this activity, you will visit the Knife Museum just next to G.SAKAI's factory. There you will see interesting rare items and exhibits from all over the world. You will construct your own knife in the atelier by assembly, polishing, sharpening, and writing your name.
Lunch at local Japanese restaurant
Visit at Swordsmith Museum, you can learn deeply Samurai and Japanese swords history in Japan. Seki City in Gifu Prefecture developed as a major center for Sword making as early as the 13th century thanks to rich deposits of iron sand in the local Nagara River. During the Edo period, there were several hundred blacksmiths producing a large number of Samurai Swords and Knives.
Seki City in Gifu is one of the three cutlery-producing regions in the world and boasts the highest cutlery production volume in Japan. Seki's cutlery has inherited skills and techniques with tradition of more than 700 years. Even today, it continues to produce high-quality blades rich in functionality and design by interesting traditional techniques with the latest technology. You might also find something new here.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- We will pickup Sekitomioka Station of Nagara River Train nearest transportation from Knife Museum in Seki City. Our driver will wait for you in front of station at 10:08AM when is arriving time of train.
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 5 travellers
- Operated by
- MOST JAPAN
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- You can easily join for a day trip, roughly 1.5~2 hours by train from Kyoto
How it compares in Japan, outside the cities
- Its from-price is 174% above the median of the 1684 experiences we list in Japan, outside the cities.
- It is longer than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 24 of 1684.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
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