Kyoto: Traditional Japanese Kitchen Knife Finishing Workshop

The overall experience was excellent. They explained what needed to be done. Helped guide us along the process.

Had a fantastic, informative experience here learning how to sharpen a knife the Japanese way. Started with a rough blade and end up with a razor sharp, engraved knife. Lucas was chatty and super helpful. The location has recently moved so be sure to check with the operator! The knife sharpening specifically is above the curry house called 'Spice Holic', about 5 minutes west of the main location. In any case a must do if you're in Kyoto.

This was a lovely experience that was sufficiently challenging but thoroughly achievable. Would recommend this as a great value for money experience

The class was fun and engaging! Jenny was helpful and super friendly, and Sensei Luc showed tremendous experience and gave amazing advice! Would totally recommend this class if you wish to take home a piece of Japan!

Instructor was very nice. She explained the steps and helped us along in the process. With the 4 of us, it took about 1.5 hours. The free saucer is small, but you have the option to upgrade to a larger saucer or bowl at a cost. Both the free and the upgrades are adorable. At the end they made sure to take a photo of the group and packed our porcelain so it was safe to go.

Very fun time. Betty was great!

Sunday was a great host, and he guided us through the knife making very well. I had a fantastic time! Worth the money too 😁

Amazing experience to have a personnal knife ! Sunday perfect !

I really enjoyed my course ! The guide Luc put me at ease and was very enthousiast in sharing the learnings. I can now say that I know how to sharpen a blade ! And on top of that I left with a beautiful and sharpened knife. I recommand th experience a 100%. 🔥

5 stars! Luke is the man. Great guide and an awesome knife for the cutting

Had a fun time learning how to sharpen a useful kitchen knife. I was amazed that it cut paper so easily when I had finished and the bonus is I got to keep it. Lucas our trainer was excellent and informative.

Would not recommend. TLDR: Literally the entire class was, swipe a knife on a whetstone for 15 minutes, thanks for your $130 goodbye. Booked our trip through TripAdvisor, followed the meetup address walking through the rain to get yo the building only to be told the workshop moved 7 minutes away months ago and “we should have gotten an email” that never came (we booked this morning, so listed address is out of date.) The “workshop” was my wife and I stuffed in the back corner of an actual workshop where people were making ceramics, in an extremely noisy setting. Our guide was friendly but quiet and gave almost zero instructions other than to sharpen the knives, and to keep sharpening when my wife’s wasn’t sharp enough. Then, when offered to test the sharpness, he grabbed a piece of the newspaper laying on a table from another project and let us “cut” the newspaper which just tore, because its newspaper. This felt like getting a charged $130 to do someone’s chores. I feel like our experience was not in any way the experience we read about in other reviews. Avoid.

Fantastic hands on guidance by patient native English speaker. Would definitely recommend!

Very fun, great instructor, had a blast would come again!

Fun experience to learn a new skill. Plenty of time was given to us with a patient instructor that knew what he was talking about. We had a calm atmosphere with music playing in the background. Overall great time for the price.

Learned an new honing technique and i managed to make a hair shaving sharp edge 👍

Luke did a killer job. Patient and consistent.

Amazing experience here making the knives with Luke!!! He was very informative and we were all able to get done the knife making within the hour. It is a great time with your family or friends. Check them out 1000%

Fun experience and a beautiful knife in the end. Luke was great!!!

Carla was really great made the experience a fun time, highly recommend trying it out, hopefully you get Carla too

Super fun and 100% you should do this and everyone should do it ! Carla was amazing

Very fun and interactive activity. Luke was amazing in guiding us on how to do the knife and very knowledgeable. Highly recommend.

Great experience! Very professional, warm, and easy to learn. Truly enjoyed the experience.

Super fun experience! Our guide was fantastic, walked us through it all and our knives turned out great. Luke was friendly and spoke perfect English. Great souvenir too!

Such a fun and unique experience!! Luke was such a great teacher! Highly recommend

A great experience and a fun activity to do with a group of friends. The staffs were also extremely helpful and friendly throughout the process.

Experience was fun and guided well

We have had a wonderful Kintsugi experience with Lucas as our guide. Atmosphere was very friendly and uplifting and he was super pacient with my perfectionism. Highly recommended!

We had an amazing time sharpening our knives with the help from Sunday, he was carefully leading us to the best technic and finishing. We also put the handle and engraved, it was all perfect. The room was filled with life, people having fun with other workshops and music in the background giving the vibe.

Awesome experience learning how to sharpen Japanese knives — makes for a wonderful and unique souvenir!

Amazing experience!!! Lucas was awesome. Couldn't have asked for a better class! :)

Fun and easy experience for a short visit. We got a knife for keepsake!

Had a fun time at the workshop, it was fun and we had a good time.

Such a great and fun experience. The guides are so nice and helpful. Would recommend!!

Our guide was a lot of fun. We learned a lot and our knives turned out beautiful. Thank you.

Entrance was hard to find and up a small lift, but the experience was great. Lucas was very good and knowledgeable.

Good experience for improving technique and for an original souvenir. Will include maps link for easier location. Thans Lucas!

Nice class with nice people.+++

Very good experience from start to finish. The guides were so friendly, engaging and helpful . They always answered our questions and guided us throughout the way of making the chopsticks . Would recommend !

What a fun and great experience! Luc was fantastic to work with and knowledgeable too! Loved it!

Had a great time, Lucas was an awesome and knowledgeable teacher

Very good experience, and Luke was very nice and helpful

It was a really good experience, Luc was really kind and patiente. The knives are super cool! Thanks you very much

Very nice workshop where you get to sharpen your own knife. You get to choose between a western style chef knife of the traditional Japanese one (slight surcharge). Optional engraving on the handle. The guide spoke perfect English and was very friendly. The workshop was private and only on reservation

Victoria was very helpful and knowledgeable. This experience involved sharpening the knife and then attaching the handle. A perfect souvenir from Japan!

10/10 recommend the knife making class, can’t wait to take my knife home and use it everyday! Luke is extremely knowledgeable and super friendly, Request him if you can!!!

I really enjoyed doing my knife. Luke was engaging, fun and taught how to properly do my knife. I would highly recommend it to anyone and the best part is that I got my own personal knife.

Was a great overall experience! Learned a lot about knife sharpening and how to maintain knife care at home!

Fantastic activity to do on a wet day in Kyoto. If you have been to temples, shrines and castles this is a fun activity to share together and we learnt a new skill. Sunday guided through the art of knife sharpening so hopefully we will be able to repeat this at home.