Kanazawa · Day Tour
A market, one of Japan's three great gardens and two surviving old districts, in four hours.
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¥14,000 per person
approx. US$89
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A four-hour guided walking tour of Kanazawa. It starts at Omicho Market, moves through Kenroku-en — counted among the three finest gardens in Japan — and continues into the samurai and geisha districts. Kanazawa was never bombed, so what you walk through is original.
Kanazawa was the seat of the wealthiest domain in Japan after the shogunate itself, and it came through the war untouched. That is the single fact that explains the place: the merchant streets, the samurai walls and the teahouse districts are the originals, not reconstructions.
The market has fed the city since the eighteenth century and it is still where restaurants buy. Crab, sweet shrimp, yellowtail from the Sea of Japan. Your guide walks you through what is in season and what is worth eating standing up.
The garden takes its name from the six attributes a perfect garden was said to need, which no one garden was supposed to combine. It was the private garden of the ruling family for two centuries before it opened. Your guide explains what you are looking at, which turns a pleasant walk into something considerably more interesting.
The last stretch covers the earthen-walled lanes where the samurai lived and the teahouse quarter where the geisha still work. Both are compact, both are original, and both are best walked with someone who can tell you what went on behind the frontages.
Meet your guide at the Kenjotei tea house.
Seafood, produce and street snacks.
One of Japan's three great gardens.
The samurai quarter and the teahouse streets.
Kenjotei Tea House, beside Kenroku-en, Kanazawa. Your guide will contact you on WhatsApp beforehand.
Your English-speaking guide for the four hours. Entrance fees, transport and food are paid as you go.
No, this is a small group tour. If you want the day built around you, book the private Kanazawa tour instead.
A few kilometres over four hours, mostly flat, at an easy pace with stops.
Yes. Kanazawa is around two and a half hours from Tokyo by shinkansen and about two hours from Kyoto.
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start time. Bookings are confirmed instantly.
Kanazawa · Day Tour
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