Make your own kitchen knife with a master blacksmith in Shimanto
Get in touch with the essence of Japanese manufacturing in Shimanto's wilderness!
Overview
Details
In this activity you can experience traditional Japanese craft culture through "Kaji".
In a contemporary society that emphasizes digital networks, old handicraft techniques have become far from everyday life.
You can experience blacksmith cutlery production as inherited from ancient times in Japan at "Tatara Iron & Steel Forging Workshop Kurogane," surrounded by the Shimanto River area of Kochi Prefecture, with mountains and river wilderness in abundance.
Imagine crafting your own knife or scissors from steel, using fire and ancient Japanese techniques. You can commemorate your wedding, or remember your trip, through engraving.
The workshop is in Kuchiyanai Village, in the middle of the Shimanto River middle basin, and you can relax leisurely in the river after losing yourself in the making of cutlery. If you are lucky, you may also be able to encounter deer, wild boar, monkeys and other wild animals. Please enjoy the unique experience of Japan from the heart of great nature.
Consultation on knife making
Knife Forging
Lunch Time
※ Please bring your meals as the restaurant near workshop place closed in 2022.
Make shape with belt sander
Put the inscription
Heat Treatment
Sharpening
What's included:
· Training experience
· Teaching in English
· A set of equipment necessary for the experience (work clothes, protective glasses, raw materials, a set of tools)
What's not included:
· Lunch and drinks
· Transportation expenses to the experience location
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Notes
Free cancellation up to 8 days before the experience starts (local time)
Private experience
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4
Participants
Kochi
From ¥#.000 /person
8 hours
Meeting Point
· The reservation for the workshop is accepted starting three months prior to your desired date. Reservations made before that period are not accepted, so we appreciate your understanding in advance.
· Please come in clothes that you do not mind getting soiled.
· Since the temperature in the workshop will also rise from June to September in the summer, please bring some drinks.
· Depending on the number of people in the experience and the degree of refinement of the cutlery, we may send it after finishing at the workshop at a later date.
· Please bring your meals as the restaurant available for lunch near workshop place closed in 2022.
· The minimum age to participate in the experience is 8 years old or above.
· If you are staying at a hotel in Shimanto City, we offer a round-trip hotel transfer service by car for an additional fee of 6,000 yen. Please let us know if you would like to avail this service. The hotel pickup time is 8:30 am. Please note that the maximum number of passengers for the transfer is 3 people.
WORK SHOP KUROGANE
Traveler Photos
From ¥#.000 /person
8 hours
Kochi