Best of Kanazawa
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Port
Toyama, Japan
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Activity Level
Moderate
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Excursion Type
All
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Wheelchair Accessible
No
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Starting At
$179.95
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Minimum Age
Information Not Currently Available
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Duration
Approximately 7 Hours
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Meals Included
Meals included
Experience Kanazawa's past and present.
Travel by coach to the Higashi Chayamachi -- one of the city's four pleasure districts established in the late Edo period (1820). The district is home to traditional tea houses, where wealthy merchants and artisans held drinking parties, and geisha performed just as they still do today.
Next, you're headed to Kenroku-en -- one of the three celebrated Great Gardens of Japan. The great daimyo of Kanazawa Castle originally developed Kenroku-en's 25-acre landscaped garden. It boasts Japan's first fountain, a teahouse dating to 1774, and a pagoda donated to the Maeda clan by the great warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The celebrated Ganko-Bashi is a bridge comprised of 11 red stones laid out to resemble a formation of flying geese.
Continue to the Nagamachi District, once home to many of Kanazawa's samurai. Kaga was unlike other Japanese fiefdoms because its samurai lived in Kanazawa town. The remains of their houses can be seen today, along with a few surviving residences, earthen boundary walls, narrow lanes and canals.
A Lunch is served en route.
Notes:
Bring local currency, as many vendors do not accept credit cards or US dollars. You must remove your shoes at the Nagamachi Samurai district.