14 Hours in Kanazawa. 8am: Kenroku-en stroll Start the day in a state of serenity at one of the official Three Great Gardens of Japan. Kenroku-en represents the perfect marriage of human ingenuity ...

Like Kyoto, “in World War II the Americans didn’t bomb Kanazawa, so many of the city’s old traditional things remain,” said Sakumi Sakai, a retired Kanazawa resident who was in the middle ...

Kanazawa’s narrow, winding streets confound visitors, just as they confused intruders centuries ago. It was early morning in Kanazawa’s historical Higashi Chaya district, a row of old latticed ...