Spot guide · Kanazawa 金沢
Photo: 金沢市 / CC BY 2.1 jpKanazawa was not bombed in the Second World War, so this is a real samurai district in its original street plan rather than a reconstruction. Ochre earthen walls, water channels running beside the lanes, gates and stone paving — the middle-ranking retainers of the Kaga domain lived exactly here.
In winter the walls are wrapped in straw mats — komo-gake — to protect the earth from freezing and wet snow. They go on in December and come off in March, and they are the reason to come in the season nobody comes.
The transfer eats it. Choose Kenroku-en or Omicho instead.
It sits between Omicho Market and the garden.
Nagamachi, Higashi Chaya and the garden all fit.
No. Kanazawa was not bombed in the Second World War, so the samurai quarter survives in its original street plan — earthen walls, stone paving, gates and the Onosho water channels dug in the 1600s. The Nomura family house is open and preserves an interior and a small garden.
About an hour for the lanes, ninety minutes if you go inside the Nomura house. It is ten minutes on foot from Omicho Market, so the two work well together on a four-to-six-hour call.
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