Kyoto KNIFE Making Experience | Hands-on Craft Tour

Kyoto KNIFE Making Experience | Hands-on Craft Tour

Today, we are exploring a new area in Kyoto! I’m headed away from the main city and crowded tourist spots to the quiet suburbs of Kameoka.

What brings me here? The opportunity to visit Masahiro Swordsmith and try my hand at forging a steel knife! Join me on this unique craft experience where I’ll learn how to heat and strike steel to make a shiny and sharp blade.

This is a memorable knife-making experience in Kyoto – one that I recommend to anyone interested in knives, traditional crafts, and Kyoto activities off the beaten path.
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Learn more and book your own experience: https://wabunka-lux.jp/experiences/en_masahiro?ref=matw

Full write-up: https://www.marisaroundtheworld.com/forging-steel-in-the-mountains-of-kyoto-knife-making-experience/

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📅 Filmed January 2026
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00:00 Back in Kyoto
00:37 Going to a Swordsmith!
02:00 Drive to Kameoka, Kyoto
02:38 Katana Introduction
02:53 Forging Demonstration
03:54 My Turn to Make a Knife!
05:10 Part 1 Done
05:53 Making the Blade Pattern
06:45 Quenching the Blade
07:37 Masahiro Katanas
07:52 Ta-da! A Finished Knife
08:05 Tour Recap
09:11 Book this Tour with Wabunka
09:35 MATW is on Patreon!
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