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The long call · Kanazawa

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Long calls — garden, gold leaf, geisha lanes and the pool. Timed from the gangway and back, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

~8h door to door7 stops8 hours or more ashore
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Door to door
~8h
From the gangway and back
Best for
8 hours or more
Long calls — garden, gold leaf, geisha lanes and the pool
What it costs
bus day riding + Kenroku-en ¥320 + castle grounds free
Transport spend: bus day riding + Kenroku-en ¥320 + castle grounds free. Omicho lunch ¥1,500–3,000.
Booking
Nothing
Every stop here takes walk-ups
The route

How the day runs

Times are from the moment you step off, not from the scheduled arrival. Everything shifts if your ship is late; the order does not.

  1. +0:00
    Shuttle downtown, straight to Kenroku-en

    Opening hour is yours

    What you will see here →Full guide: Kenroku-en →
  2. +1:40
    21st Century Museum — stand under the pool

    Free zones cover the famous works

    What you will see here →
    Photo: INABA Tomoaki / CC BY-SA
  3. +2:50
    Bus/taxi to Higashi Chaya district

    1820s teahouse lanes

    What you will see here →
    Photo: Andrea Schaffer from Sydney, Australia / CC BY 2.0
  4. +3:20
    Gold-leaf soft serve at Hakuichi + ateliers

    A whole sheet of gold, obligatory

    What you will see here →
    Photo: sergejf / CC BY
  5. +4:30
    Omicho Market late lunch

    The bowls calm down after 13:30

    What you will see here →Full guide: Omicho Market →
    Photo: snowpea&bokchoi / CC BY
  6. +5:40
    Nagamachi samurai lanes if legs allow

    Earthen walls, the Nomura garden

    What you will see here →Full guide: Nagamachi →
    Photo: 金沢市 / CC BY 2.1 jp
  7. +6:30
    Shuttle back to the port

    ~60 min margin on a 9h call

The margin is not optional. This route ends an hour before all-aboard on purpose. If you are running late, drop the last stop, not the hour.
What the day looks like

Kanazawa, along this route

Real photographs of the places above and the streets between them. Every one is credited.

The Yasue Gold Leaf Museum in Kanazawa, where the craft is explained
The Yasue Gold Leaf Museum in Kanazawa, where the craft is explainedPhoto: 金沢市 / CC BY 2.1 jp
Kaga yuzen silk dyeing in Kanazawa
Kaga yuzen silk dyeing in KanazawaPhoto: 藤谷良秀(Yoshihide Fujitani) / CC BY-SA 4.0
Snow crab at a Kanazawa market
Snow crab at a Kanazawa marketPhoto: さかおり / CC BY-SA
Omicho Market
Omicho MarketPhoto: afs1180 / CC BY
Kanazawa Castle Park
Kanazawa Castle ParkPhoto: mrpbps / CC BY
Kutani ware at Kaburaki
Kutani ware at KaburakiPhoto: Mary Harrsch from Springfield, Oregon, USA / CC BY
Different hours, different day

The other routes in Kanazawa

The rainy-day KanazawaA wet day · ~5hWet weather — and Kanazawa is wet, by designThe port-side secret2–3 hours · ~2hShort calls — the honest answer this far from downtownThe garden core4–6 hours · ~5.5hKenroku-en and its neighbors — the reason you docked
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