Visited date : 2023/Dec/10 Sunday 11:00am
Located : Sumida-ku in Tokyo and close to station
URL : https://www.touken.or.jp/english/
Lockers : 1F, 3F
Brochure : English, Japanese
I visited here on sunday morning, even though it’s the weekend it wasn’t crowded. Not more than 30 people were there. It wasn’t as busy as I thought when I arrived so I was able to take my time to see the katana.
What they show
We can see KATANA, TACHI, TANTO…etc. Katana’s blade is elegant and also small parts which is handguard, hilt, scabbard, and so on are so gorgeously and artistically.
Design
There’s a KAMON (家紋) which is family crest in Japan. On Kimono or grave stone things like that are still exist today.
My favorite KATANA
The black and gold color and sparkling decoration combinations is my fave.
Go through
Had a good experience to grabbing a real katana first time. It’s heavier than I think, keep holding on my one side arm is quite hard for me. Samurai used to be do that.
Others
They have resting area with tables, banding machines. You can see former Yasuda Garden from the rooftop, in this time autumn leaves are really nice view.
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