Weekend Trip to Hokuriku, 2009 (Kanazawa)

2009/01/17 - 2009/01/18

The next day, we went to Kenrokuen in Kanazawa first. This is the one of 3 famous gardens in Japan, Kairakuen (Ibaragi), Korakuen (Okayama) and this, Kenrokuen. This trip was already planned bus trip and we had about only 1 hour to go and see.

エリア 金沢(石川)

Camellia blossom with snow, nice combination.

Kenrokuen was developed for 200 years by the Maeda clan, in Kaga Domain.

With pine trees, there were Yukitsuri on them, for protecting from snow.

Amazing nice shape of pine tree, looks like huge Bonsai.

Beautiful garden view of pond with reflection.

Ooooh, looks cold!

I could find cherry blossom (sakura) in this middle of winter.

It is the statue of Yamato Takeru no Mikoto. Who and why?? He is the one of famous mythological hero. This statue was made for the memorial of the dead in the Seinan War after the Meiji Era. He fought against the brothers from the west who did not follow the government, and they likened the people from Ishikawa prefecture fought in this war against Kagoshima (in Kyushu, west part of Japan).

Kanazawa city from Kenrokuen.

This bus tour stopped by the touristic pottery factory of Kutani ware.

There was an expensive pot.

And this, Ebisusama?

And this. Only cute cats cost 9000jpy...

I also found this funny guy, costs 60000jpy originally!

I bought Kani Zushi (Sushi of　crumb).

inside was like this. Yammy.