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Kanazawa day 3

September 24, day 3 (last) in Kanazawa.

We woke up and prepared to check out of our hotel. We still had complementary drink tickets from when we checked in so we used them to get coffee in the lobby. We left our luggage at the cloak and headed out. We first went for a bit of omiyage shopping. The station building is good for buying omiyage as it has pretty much anything, there's also a supermarket above.

We walked down to Kōrinbō for our first destination, another sushi restaurant that we had booked for lunch. This one is called Otome-zushi (乙女寿司, 4-10 Kiguramachi). The place is really well hidden, led to by a small path between a parking and another building. We were glad that we had searched for it the previous day. It seems like it's also hard to get in without a reservation. Here too the counter seats are the best, as you can watch the lead chef prepare each piece. Actually I think that if you were to choose a table, your sushi would be prepared by an apprentice instead.

Like at Komatsu Yasuke (see the previous day) the sushi is soft, though not quite as soft. Still it's better eaten with the hand. Of course it was all very delicious! One thing that was great is that the chef really listened to our preferences, and served us slightly different menus after having asked if there's anything we dislike. Great service, and great taste. :)

We were quite full, but just not that full, so our next stop was Marukaku, a gelato shop of the Malga Gelato brand based in Ishikawa pref.. The shop is located on Seseragi-dōri (2-8-18 Katamachi), and they serve original gelato with many local and Japanese-style flavors. One particular thing is that they serve ice cream in a monaka (crispy wafers made from mochi). We first had strawberry and hōji-cha flavors, and we got a sample of another containing cucumber and apple. That was really great so I went back to get a full-size of it.

Next we went for a walk again around Nagamachi-bukeyashiki-ato. This time we entered an old Japanese house named Nomura-ke (the home of Nomura family) that contains a truly beautiful garden. It's a very old house that's been converted into a museum.

There's a large garden that contains a pond with many nishikigoi (those expensive red and white carps). There are also old artifacts exhibited such as old coins (I liked the tiny square ones), and covers to hide nail heads, these were previously used in this house.

Nail covers and coins

This next photo is of a street with a canal in Nagamachi-bukeyashiki-ato.

That was about it for sight-seeing. Our time of departure was also getting a bit closer but we went for some record shopping at Record Jungle (2-13 Fukuromachi) where I found a few 7"'s (Hasegawa Kiyoshi, Natsuki Mari, Toi et Moi, The Fascinations).

We also had small roll cakes at a shop called Weekday (3-14 Nishichō). And later while waiting for the time to leave we went to have one last coffee at collabon (1-14 Yasuechō), a cute café that also sells small objects of all kinds and also some music.

We ended our trip by buying some sushi (again!) bentō in the station building, that we enjoyed on the train.

Kanazawa was a very nice destination and I'd really like to go there again sometime! Most people recommend going there in winter, but it does get colder than Tokyo and it seems that they do get quite a bit of snow, so I'm not too sure. :) ("Aren't you Canadian!?")

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Some robots seen in Kanazawa

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