Omi-cho Market
Kanazawa has a central market that primarily sells fish and vegetables, but also has a variety of other food purveyors. The market has been here for 400 years. We took…
Kanazawa Castle
Adjacent to the Kenroku-en Garden are the grounds of the Kanazawa Castle which was built in 1583. In fact the Garden was built for the Lord that lived in the…
Kenroku-en Garden
Wow is the area around Kanazawa beautiful. At times it looks like the central California coast and then other times like New England. But right in the center of Kanazawa…
Morning at Kikunoya
It’s a very peaceful morning at Kikunoya. Just the birds chirping out in the garden.
Kaiseki in Kanazawa
On our first night in Kanazawa, Lauren had arranged for us to enjoy a traditional Kaiseki meal at a local restaurant in old town Kanazawa. It actually turned out to…
Journey to Kanazawa
We purposely took the long way to Kanazawa so that we could see some of the countryside. So our journey was Tokyo to Nagano, then Nagano to Noetsu, then Noetsu…