G. Sakai Knife Museum — Attraction in Seki

We participated in a Knife making experience at the G Sakai Knife Museum. Our instructor Sumi was friendly, patient and obviously both a master at his craft and an experienced instructor. There are many knives made there as well as holsters, leather accessories and souvenirs.

The class consisted of polishing the blade, painting a design, Shaping the handle, polishing the handle, etching the knife, assembling it and sharpening. You could select the type of knife to be made from a variety of patterns. All knives were Damascus blades.

Throughout the class our guide Hiro, and Sumi provided expert advice and assistance. The resulting blades were beautiful and functional knives to bring home.

In addition Sumi is an artist and prepared a hand painted beautiful certificate of completion with drawings and kanji.

All in all we enjoyed the experience and spent a lot of time learning the knife construction phases and steps. Please note that this is not a forging class. Proper protective gear was provided at all times. I would highly encourage you to schedule...

Absolutely brilliant, as soon as we enter, we are greeted with a firm handshake and polite manners. Went to go do the knife making experience and would strongly recommend others to do it, because it is an experience that is well worth it. You get taught through the steps of how to craft the blade, grind the blade, how to inscribe something in Kanji onto your blade, and then how to sharpen your blade. The blade they give you to work on is Damascus steel which is high quality. Sumi and Yoshi are so patient and extremely good at their craft, so don't be discouraged if you think you aren't up to it, just go for it. We also got to keep our blades which makes the whole experience rewarding as well. Even afterwards, we had a nice chat with them, extremely friendly people. I cannot recommend any further on this place. 5 stars isn't enough, but it's the best google lets me do. Thank you for the experience that I can show to...

Such a perfect experience to start a Japanese trip! (Create your Samurai knife experience)

Hiro, Sumi and Yoshi were a very good team, each guy has his own talent and all will make everything to make your day amazing. The knife we were able to produce is a good kitchen knife, first come first to choose which color and shape! We learned a lot of other things on this day, for example how to write your name as kana or kanji and the meaning of each kanji, we were able to ask everything to those guys and yes we had million of questions! The lunch was the best I had in my whole trip, we were able to choose between 3 different type of meal and I can only recommand the sushi!!!! Now we have wonderful pieces we can bring home being proud of them! Thanks a bunch for everything, you guys...