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The 2026 Sakai Cutlery Festival will be held.

The Sakai Cutlery Festival Executive Committee will hold the Sakai Cutlery Festival to promote the attractiveness of Sakai's traditional industry, Sakai cutlery, to further popularize it in daily life and to enhance its image as a cutlery production area.

In addition to exhibiting and selling kitchen knives, flower arrangement ・ gardening scissors, and other cutlery and re-sharpening, the event will also feature demonstrations of old-style forging （ traditional fire forging ・ forging ）, name cutting, knife handle attachment, wooden handle gouging, and more.

In addition, there will be a "Sakai Hare-no-hi Marche" with stalls selling traditional Sakai products such as incense sticks, processed kelp products, Japanese sweets, bread and sweets. This year, with the cooperation of the North Sakai Police Department, "working police vehicles" such as police cars and white motorcycles will be on display.

1 Date and Time

April 11, 2026 （ Saturday ） ～ 12th （ Sunday ） 10:00 am ～ 4:00 pm

*Opening ceremony （ Only ） April 11 （ Sat ） 9:30 a.m. ～ 10 a.m.

2 venues

Sakai City Industrial Promotion Center （ 183-5 Nagasone-cho, Kita-ku, Sakai City ）

（ 4 minutes walk from Nakayumonomozu Station on the Nankai-Hirono Line and Nakamozu Station on the Osaka Metro Line ・ About 900 meters ）

*The 1st parking lot is not available for use. Please use public transportation. We appreciate your cooperation.

* The venue is not "Sakai Denshokan". Please be careful not to make a mistake.

3 Admission

Admission free （ Re-sharpening and some events are charged. ）

4 Contents

・ Sales of flower arrangement and gardening scissors and knives

・ Cutlery manufacturing process （ Demonstration of cutting knives ） including branding, knife handle attachment and wooden handle gripping
・ Cutlery Clinic （ Resharpening ）

・ Demonstration of Old Style Forging

・ Easy Cooking Show （ Mr. Toshihiro Nakatsuji, Executive Chef, Sakai Higashi Nin Nin

・ Police Vehicle Exhibition

・ Hands-on Events （ Apple Peeling Contest, Quiz Rally, etc ）

・ Stage Events Brass band, Goryo drum, dance performance, etc. ）

・ Sakai Hare no Hi Marche

etc.

*For details of the event, please refer to the website of Sakai Cutlery Cooperative Association Please check the website of the Sakai Cutlery Merchant Cooperative Association below for details.

https://www.sakaihamono.or.jp/matsuri/index.html