A travel recommendation - Ishikawa prefecture, Japan

Kenrokuen in winter

If you are going to Ishikawa, you ought to visit Kanazawa, which is the capital, located in the center of the prefecture. It has a lot of places to visit and a lot of foods and sweets to eat.

You can get there by a car, bus, airplane, and bullet train. In the city, you should take a walk with wearing sneakers, because there are many historical buildings like temples. If you’re going there in winter, you need to take an umbrella in case of rain.

First of all, you should go to Kenrokuen, which is one of the most beautiful garden in Japan, and then there is also famous museum called the 21th Century Museum nearby. After that you had better go to the Oumi market, which is a fresh seafood market. You can buy fresh seafoods from Japan Sea, and if you need, you can send them to your house. Finally, I strongly recommend you to go to a sushi restaurant. It must be delicious.

Kenrokuen after a blizzard

Unfortunately, in holidays, many tourists visit there and it gets so crowded. However, I think it’s worth it, because you can have great experiences in Kanazawa.

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I think Kanazawa city in Ishikawa prefecture is the most powerful place in Japan recently. It is because that Hokuriku-Shinkansen which is connected between Tokyo and Kanazawa was opened on March 14. Kanazawa city is the biggest city in Hokuriku area and one of the famous tourist sites, but it had taken about five hours to go there by trains from Tokyo so far. After Hokuriku-Shinkansen was opened, it takes only two and a half hours to go to Kanazawa from Tokyo at fastest. The most of the visitors to Kanazawa was from Hokuriku area or western Japan, but it is expected that the visitors from eastern Japan will also be increased.

Lantern in the Kenroku-en garden, Kanazawa (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Kanazawa city has been famous as a feudal Japanese castle town. The most famous spot is a garden called “Kenrokuen” which is one of the three major gardens in Japan. It is often touted as the Maeda clan’s greatest accomplishment in the seventeenth century. There are many other traditional spots related to Maeda clan in the city.

My parents said that they visited Kanazawa city when I was baby, but I don’t remember about it at all. I want to visit the city to see the beautiful scenery and eat the delicious sea food in near future.