岐阜で体験！サムライの刃物作りツアー

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Lee Drake2025年6月 • byFood

This excellent experience was led by our guide Hiro who was knowledgeable and helpful. We were picked up at our hotel in Seki City and he met another guest at the train station in his comfortable roomy modern and air conditioned van. Our first experience was making a knife at the G Sakai knife making shop. A precut Damascus knife could be selected from a number of different patterns, we then went through the steps of polishing, shaping the handle, Putting a pattern of our choice on the knife, et...続きを読む

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Shaw2025年4月 • byFood

I’d give 6 stars if possible! Attendees: 62 year old woman with her 23 year old nephew. We both had a great time. I would describe this as a knife assembly class, not knife making. We were provided with the blade, which we then polished and sharpened under guidance from skilled craftsman (retired from the Sakai factory, I think). We wrote our names on the knife in Japanese characters, which were then etched into the blade. After that we attached the handle and then polished it. We had a choice...続きを読む

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Chee Chin Lee2025年5月 • byFood

Hiro, Sumi, and Yoshi were very friendly and patient with our group of three. We got to try our hands in different aspects of knife making and got to bring home an extremely sharp knife with us at the end. Most importantly is that I now have a very sharp knife I had a hand in making that I will be using for a very long time! Highly recommended.