Kyosuke and I went to Kanazawa on the long weekend and it was our first holiday together. We had a great time and saw many things! We arrived in Kanazawa in the afternoon and then had a chance to look around the city before going out to have kaisendon for dinner. Kaisendon is a famous dish in this area which is sashimi on a bowl of rice. It not only tasted amazing but looked amazing as it had gold on it! Kanazawa produces most of Japan’s gold leaf so it goes on everything here!
Kanazawa station
Kaisen don with gold!
The next day we went to Kenroku-en which is the famous garden. It was really beautiful and the first signs of autumn could be seen.
The beautiful pond
This pine tree is really old and has supports for strength through winter
Kyosuke and I in the garden
Famous view in the garden
We then went to the Sakuda Gold Leaf shop which is where they make gold leaf and sell products. We were given tea with gold in it! I even had icecream with gold!
Tea with gold!
Expensive but amazing looking icecream!
After we went to the Higashi Pleasure District which is the old area where there are tea houses and Geisha houses. We went into the Shima Geisha House which was just beautiful.
Me in the Higashi area
Garden inside the Geisha House
The next day we went to Myoryu-ji which is known as the Ninja temple. We went on a tour of it where we saw hidden rooms, trick staircases, secret floors, suicide chamber and a look out. When it was built the law was that you could only have a building 3 stories tall. This temple was actually 4 stories but from the outside it looked like 3 and it had 7 layers within it. It was really interesting but also funny as no one ever attacked the Lord that used the temple so there were never any Ninja’s!
Ninja temple
We then went to the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art. It was quite amazing and my favourite exhibition was definitely the swimming pool. This pool didn't have water in it so first you could enter from underground and be “in” the pool and see people at the top and then you could go to ground level and see people below! Very cool!
Me in the pool!
The view from ground level
On our way back to the station we walked through the grounds of Kanazawa castle. Some parts of it has been rebuilt and some parts are still missing as it was destroyed by fire in the 1800’s.
Kanazawa castle
It was a great weekend and was exciting to go somewhere new and interesting!
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