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# Deba

Deba bōchō − "fish-preparer" − are a style of Japanese kitchen knives primarily used to cut fish, though are also used occasionally in preparing meat.

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## Every way there

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The field note

What is in and around Deba, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Deba has

- N Scheduled flights nearest airport BCU is 182 km away
- F Trains and coaches 1 feed listed in the Mobility Database, not compiled yet (Lagos State Waterways)
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Gombe, 26 km.

10.212°, 11.387°

Deba have wide blades and are the thickest of all Japanese kitchen knives and come in different sizes − sometimes up to 30 centimetres in length and 10 millimetres thick − but usually considerably shorter, normally between 12 and 20 cm long with a blade between 5 and 7 mm thick. The larger form of knife is called an hon-deba, whereas the smaller form is a ko-deba.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deba_b%C5%8Dch%C5%8D), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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