Ōken

That is the King's Key. For the King's Seal, see Ōin.

The is the key of the royal house that can open a gateway to the dimension where the Spirit King is found. The only one in Soul Society that knows the location of the Ōken is the Captain-Commander of the Gotei 13, which is currently Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto; the location is passed on verbally from generation to generation of Captain-Commander, and there is no document containing where it is located.

Sōsuke Aizen, however, discovered that the Ōken can be forged with 100,000 souls and a plot of spirit-enriched land with a radius of half a spirit-mile. The current spirit-enriched land in the real world is Karakura Town.