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For having a farewell party for a staff worker, we came to Kanazawa.
It was two nights three days trip.
Our introduction and explanation this time is made up of 3 parts.
This time, it is first part.
At 9 a.m., I boarded the bullet train from Tokyo Station and arrived at Kanazawa Station in about 2 hours. Taking a taxi to the hotel to drop off my luggage.
Address: 4-50 Minamicho, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture
For this 2-night, 3-day trip, I chose to stay at the Tokyu Stay Kanazawa Hotel, which is conveniently located just a 9-minute walk from Kenrokuen Garden.
The room was very comfortable, equipped with various amenities such as a washing machine, trouser press, and shoe dryer.
Tokyu Stay Kanazawa Cafe
The cafe space had a lovely atmosphere, so I couldn’t resist taking a photo as a memento.
After dropping off my luggage, my first stop was the 「21st Century Museum」 of Contemporary Art, which was a 15-minute walk from the hotel.
Location：1-2-1, Hirosaka, Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture
Business hours：Exhibition zone 10:00～18:00 (Friday・Saturday to 20:00)
Business hours：Exchange zone 9:00～22:00
Closing day：Exhibition zone Monday (If it is holiday, next weekday), year-end and New year
Closing day：Exchange zone year-end and New year
Room closing day of each facility corresponds to Exhibition zone closing day.
Exterior of the 21st Century Museum
It is a big round shaped building, and touchable art objects are installed outside.
Kanazawa 21 century art museum is an art museum located in Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture.
This art museum whose concept is「Art museum just like a park opened to the city」is where small children to adults all can enjoy.
Just like surrounding around round shaped building, its feature is, we can touch and play art works which are exhibited in free of charge.
Planned exhibitions whose contents are changed regularly, and special limited period exhibitions are opened inside.
Inside the museum, there are regular exhibitions that change periodically, as well as special limited-time displays. Visitors can also enjoy photogenic permanent exhibitions like Leandro’s Pool.
Additionally, you can explore various exhibition rooms with different ceiling heights and dimensions, where you’ll find numerous art pieces that invite careful observation.
Next, we went to「Kenroku-en Garden」, which is located just across from the 21st Century Museum.
【Kenroku-en Garden】
It is located near 21 century art museum.
Location：1, Kenroku-cho, Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture
Business hours：March 1～October 15 7:00～18:00
Business hours：October 16～End of February 8:00～17:00
Closing day：Open all the year
Kenroku-en signboard
Kenroku-en garden is called as one of the national 「Japanese three famous gardens」together with Koraku-en in Okayama and Kairaku-en in Mito, which are representative forest spring round play method(or Rinsen Kaiyuu) gardens in Edo period.
Cherry blossoms in spring, red leaves in autumn, snow hanged ropes in winter, and so on, it can show you its beauty in four seas. So, whenever you visit it, it will show you a wonderful scene.
All of you probably may have seen them by TV or magazines, such as「Kotoji lantern」and snow rope hanged「Karasaki pine tree」and so on. There are also a lot of other beautiful and interesting famous spots in the garden.
It is the exact center of「Sightseeing city, Kanazawa」which has a lot of historical sightseeing places. So, it is a famous garden where we would like to visit again and again.
Kenroku-en garden used to be a part of garden in Kanazawa Castle.
As for the history of a garden, a sloping land facing the castle is old. Kaga domain descendant in the fifth generation・Maeda Tsunanori moved a work place located at this place to the castle, constructed a lotus pond which used to be called Renchi-ochin, then made a garden around there.
This is the start of the garden, which used to be called Renchi-teior so at that time.
Entering inside, there are about 20 mysterious classic spots surrounded by forests.
We are introducing a few of them this time.
Midori waterfall (or Midori-taki)＆Calabash pond (or Hisago-ike in Japanese pronunciation)
Hisago-ike in Japanese pronunciation
Flowing from Kasumiga-ike and pouring into Hyoike, it is the largest waterfall in the garden. With a height of 6.6 meters and a width of 1.6 meters, it boasts abundant water volume and a loud sound, pleasing both the eyes and ears. Its grandeur and power are unmatched in other gardens, making it one of the most exceptional garden landscapes in Kenrokuen. It is also known as the “Autumn Leaves Waterfall.”
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Hyoike Pond is characterized by its distinctive gourd-shaped appearance. During our visit this time, the tranquil sound of water flowing from Midori Falls softly echoed into Hyoike Pond.
There is Kaiseki tower and weeping cherry tree which is said that Katoh Kiyomasa brought back from Imjin war at the middle ground.
It shows very fantastic beaty of cherry tree reflected on calabash pond in cherry blossom season.
Mist pond (or Kasumi-ga ike in Japanese pronunciation)
Mist pond
It is an about 5,800㎡pond located in the center area of Kenroku-en garden.
According to the position to look at, you can see different phases, and it is the largest pond.
In the pond, there are a turtle shaped island named Hourai island floating.
The aspect of ducks and snowy herons folding their wings, and carp and other fish are elegant, which softens the heart of those who see them.
As worth seeing places are arranged around this pond, if you stroll there, it may be good to move around as the center of this pond.
Karasaki pine tree
Karasaki pine tree
It is a Japanese black pine which 13th feudal lord Nariyasu got the seed from Karasaki near Oomi・Lake Biwa.
Its tree shape is the best in the garden, and as for the famous object in winter「snow hanged rope」, they start its work operation from this pine in November.
The grand aspect of snow hanged rope is a representative scenery in winter Kenroku-en garden.
The method of snow hanged rope is done by so-called「apple hanging」, which is, to build a pillar at the center of pine tree, then from the pillar, to stretch ropes radially to the pine tree.
At night, the entire garden is lightened up.
Particularly, as Karasaki pine of the state of preparing snow hanged ropes is very beautiful, if you have a chance to visit Kenroku-en garden, please be sure to see it.
Please see the link below for details about Kenrokuen Garden:
Kenrokuen Garden Official Website
Location：1-3, Kenroku-cho, Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture
Business hours：9:30～17:00
Closing day：Open all the year
It is possible to enjoy and receive various benefits by praying, such as warding off evil, praying for success in an entrance exam, god former wedding, longevity cerebration, and so on here.
torii
The following is the history of Kanazawa shrine, quoted from Wikipedia.
In 1794, Kaga domain 11th feudal lord Maeda Harunaga established and constructed domain school Meirin hall. At that time, as its shinto shrine on Buddhist temple grounds dedicated to the tutelary deity of the area, and also considered to be a god of study and Maeda family’s ancestor, Sugawara Michizane was prayed and served shrine was established to construct, which was the start.
When Kenroku-en garden was improved, Meirin hall was moved to another place, but the shrine still remained there.
It was called as Takezawa palace local diety Tenmangu shrine which was constructed by 12th generation feudal lord Maeda Narinaga.
In the shrine, there are a god of keeping off disaster, white snake dragon god, a god of traffic safety, Konpira great god, a god of prosperous business god, Hakuashi Inari great gracious god, all together deified. It was prayed for prosperity and peace by all the feudal.
Visiting and praying to the shrine were only allowed on April 25 and September 25 as the annual festival and only allowed for female of the castle town before Meiji era.
In 1874, conforming with the opening for public, Kenroku-en garden became possible for those to freely visit and pray.
In 1876, its name was changed to Kanazawa shrine.
As a god of keeping off disaster, white snake dragon god’s shintai bodies are a couple of male and female.
A body was placed in this shrine, and the other was placed in the palace of Kanazawa castle, which were deified by the wives all through the feudal generations. In 1946, a body was moved to this shrine.
As a god of prosperous business, Hakuashi Inari great gracious god, after Meiji restoration, when Maeda family moved to live in Tokyo, it was translated to their house. After that time, by an old feudal retainer’s pleading, it was returned to this shrine again.
Among the shrines which Sugawara Michizane as a god of study is deified, because it was the feudal school shrine located closest to the urban area of Kanazawa city too, many students who will take exam gather here for praying for success in the entrance exam season every year.
In 2004, the main shrine and the front shrine were registered as a national tangible cultural property.
After worshipping it, we returned to the hotel once, and took some rest, then left there for dinner now.
【Buckwheat noodle restaurant「Anzu-an」】
The introduction of a buckwheat noodle restaurant「Anzu-an」which is about 8 minutes on foot from the hotel.
Location：3-3, Musashi-cho, Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture
Business hours：11:30～15:00, 17:00～22:00
Closing day：Sunday
In front of the store
This restaurant is managed by one of my friends, so it was exclusively opened only for us this time.
The food menu were voluminous, which are thin sliced boiled pork in hot soup or shabushabu, three kinds of raw fish, and buckwheat noodles finally.
dinner photo
It was an enjoyable dinner party, then the first day thus ended.
Continuing on to the second part!!
summary
We visited a few places with Kenroku-en garden as the center on the first day.
We can visit all the places without using vehicle light heartedly too.
21st century art museum closes on Monday.
If Monday falls on holiday, it often closes on the next day.
For details, please see the HP.
As you can purchase the entrance ticket of Kenroku-en garden online too, so if you would like to enter the garden as a group trip smoothly, please be sure to consider buying it on line.
The hotel we stayed this time was「Tokyu stay Kanazawa」and, washing machines, trousers presser, shoe dryer and so on are equipped in the hotel, so it was very comfortable to stay and spend time in the hotel rooms.
Personally, I was happy that I could use the washing machine as much as I like.
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