A still pond in Kenrokuen Garden reflecting pines and red maples, a stone lantern on two curved legs standing in the water at right

Trays of small shrimp and whole fish with hand-written price tags at a fish stall in Omicho Market, Kanazawa

A wide stone-paved street between wooden townhouses with latticed fronts and red lanterns in the Higashi Chaya District, visitors walking

A narrow stone-paved alley of wooden buildings at night, wall lanterns glowing and patches of snow on the pavement

Kanazawa, Ishikawa

Kanazawa: Where to Eat, What to Do and Where to Stay

Food · Things to do · Where to stay

Kanazawa's main sights are close together: Kenrokuen Garden and Kanazawa Castle Park side by side, the Higashi Chaya and Kazue-machi districts about 5 minutes on foot from the Hashiba-cho bus stop, and Omicho Market about 15 minutes on foot from Kanazawa Station. Its local foods are Sea of Japan seafood, Kanazawa oden, Kanazawa curry, Hanton rice and gold-leaf ice cream.

The pages below split the city the way a trip does: where to eat, what to do, and which base to sleep in. Kanazawa Station, Korinbo, the Oyama Jinja side, Omicho and Higashi Chaya are the five bases on the where-to-stay page.

Kanazawa: food, things to do, where to stay

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