Let me discribe our city “Seki” that is making blade for all over the world.

Today, I’m going to describe our City Seki.

Do you know Seki City that is famous for making cutrary and blade for all over the world.

There is a history for this.

History about Seki City.

As a matter of fact, the city was walled city.

You know, in Europe, there are a lot of walled city.

But, in Japan, it’s rare.

Because, in Europe, there are a lot of wide fields all around.

That’s why, the city was required to prevent for attack from a enemy with rigid wall.

But, in contrast, our country has several complicated mountains, rivers and hill.

So, we were able to utilize those native resouses to make castle.

There are a lot of differences both other country’s castle and Japanese castle.

In my town, central seki has a hill called “Asakura yama”.

In the past, there was a facility as a main castle.

Nowadays, you can climb the mountain on foot easily.

You need to pay attention about shape of city.

You know, there is a main castle as a Asakura yama.

And then, the mountain that consists of castle was surrounded by several streems as you see.

In the south of city, there are several hill as a fort.

The fort were called Bairyuji, Juurokusen and Hitotsu yama.

By the way, what did the anciant people want to protect?

The Seki town.

From the past, the region has several clear water.

It was necessery to make a state of the art blade for war.

To make advanced blade was necessery both abandant woods and clean water.

The city considerably had it.

Thats why, the city was prosperous as making blades called “Nihonto”.

Nowadays, there are a lot of manufactures and factory despite center of the city.

The city had high reputation from the past.

Explore the seki city

In my opinion, if you can come to my hometown, I recommend you to go to a facility called “SekiKaji densyoukan” that is a musium.

The musium is able to teach how to make a blade called “Japanese sword” presicely.

Its google address.

35.48191520571217, 136.9164140323163

What food should you take as a local food?

I recommend you to have a local great food “Unadon”.

Unagi is a river fish.

The fish is a little bit expensive, but there are a lot of enthusiast in this region.

In the past, we had to work hard under the hot environment to make a advanced blade for castle.

Thats why, we had to have a lot of energy from those foods.

It’s quite delicious.

The food consits of rice and the fish.

Its around 2,500 yen.

There are several more expensive menu, but I recommend you to have cheaper one.

Its google address.

35.48348465802775, 136.9231984297451