Tag: Kanazawa

  • Kanazawa Day Two

    Kanazawa Day Two

    Many of Kanazawa’s key sites are clustered in one area. We started with Kenrokuen Garden, described as one of the three most beautiful landscape gardens in Japan. Built and expanded over two centuries by the ruling Maeda family as a private garden, it was opened to the public in 1871. We’re so glad it was.…

  • Kanazawa

    Kanazawa

    We arrived in Kanazawa, on Japan’s west coast, around noon and walked immediately to a local vegan restaurant called Los Angeles, where the food including teriyaki soy chicken, ginger soy steak, salad and three slices of vegan chocolate cake were pure heaven. We kept walking after lunch, this time to visit Kurando Terashima’s House, a…