Misato and I are planning on climbing mount Fuji this summer so we thought we would practice by climbing the highest peak in Tochigi, which turned out to be a lot harder than we thought. It was really steep and took us about 8.5hrs total including a 40min break at the top for lunch.
The next day we were really sore but walked around lake Chuzenjiko a bit, saw the famous Kegon Falls, water falls.
Then we saw a demonstration of a katana sword by an actual katana swordsmith. This is the raw materials to finished product, the big block is the only part of the sword in the end. The rest is a handle to use while shaping the sword.
The process is about 12-15 times of putting the metal in the fire then hitting it with the hammer each which takes like 20min so we only watched a couple of the first few.
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