Category: Travel

Kenroku-en: The Garden of Six Attributes

Kanazawa has lots to offer – the lovely Kenroku-en Garden (Garden of Six Attributes) is considered one of Japan’s Top 3 gardens. The castle formerly known as Kanazawa, a reconstructed showcase of traditional Japanese engineering fronted by the imposing, original Ishikawa Gate has a 400-year long history. And there are many cool museums (a candy […]

Getting to Kanazawa: Lost without translation

On Tuesday, at Skye’s suggestion, I made my way to one of the “overlooked jewels” of Japan: Kanazawa. The reason Kanazawa isn’t terribly popular as a destination is: a) it’s located on the West Japan Railway’s Hokuriku Line, off the Shinkansen train line, so depending where you’re coming from, you might have to take some […]