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The rainy-day Kanazawa

Wet weather — and Kanazawa is wet, by design. Timed from the gangway and back, with the hour before all-aboard already set aside.

~5h door to door5 stopsA wet day ashore

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Door to door

~5h

From the gangway and back

Best for

A wet day

Wet weather — and Kanazawa is wet, by design

What it costs

~¥1,000 pp

Transport spend: ~¥1,000 pp. Museum ~¥450.

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.

+0:00
Shuttle or taxi into the city
Roughly 20–30 minutes from the port
+0:45
Omicho Market — covered end to end
Kaisen-don at a counter inside; crab if it is November to March
What you will see here →Full guide: Omicho Market →
+2:00
A gold-leaf workshop, indoors
One hour, a few thousand yen, and you take the piece home
+3:15
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Circular, glass, and entirely under cover
What you will see here →
Photo: INABA Tomoaki / CC BY-SA
+4:15
Back to the port

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.

Earthen walls along a lane in the Nagamachi samurai district, Kanazawa — Earthen walls along a lane in the Nagamachi samurai district, KanazawaPhoto: 金沢市 / CC BY 2.1 jp

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

Kenrokuen garden in autumn colour, Kanazawa — Kenrokuen garden in autumn colour, KanazawaPhoto: Lorenzo Castellino / Pexels

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

Different hours, different day

The other routes in Kanazawa

The port-side secret2–3 hours · ~2hShort calls — the honest answer this far from downtown The garden core4–6 hours · ~5.5hKenroku-en and its neighbors — the reason you docked The grand loop8 hours or more · ~8hLong calls — garden, gold leaf, geisha lanes and the pool

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