Seki Forging Museum

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Closed for works from 7/9/2026 to 31/3/2027: it reopens room by room, starting from the ground floor.

Seki has been forging blades for more than 700 years and is today one of the world's three great knife-making districts; the museum explains the Seki-den technique through videos and historic blades by Kanemoto – the ‘Mago-roku’ with the three-cedar pattern (三本杉) – and on the upper floor displays contemporary scissors and kitchen knives. Under normal circumstances, almost every month a smith forges a katana live using the ancient method, in front of the public.

Municipal museum devoted to Seki's seven centuries of forging tradition, with periodic demonstrations of sword forging using the traditional method.

ℹ️ CLOSED for renovation works from 7/09/2026: reopening has been announced in phases starting from 31/03/2027, beginning with the ground-floor rooms. Under normal circumstances: 9:00–16:30, closed on Tuesdays, 300 yen adults; forging demonstrations at 10:30 and 13:30 on the first Sunday of almost every month, on 2 January and during the October Cutlery Festival.

🚉 Sekiterasu-mae · 5 min walk

Sources: city.seki.lg.jp · touken-world.jp

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