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Orange Railway and Kagoshima 2026: All Posts
#0 Index
Eight days in Kagoshima Prefecture along the Hisatsu Orange Railway: samurai streets in Izumi, the sea at Akune, quiet Satsumasendai, and Tenmonkan nights.
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The Starbucks They Call the World’s Most Beautiful
#35 Starbucks Kansui Park
Is the Kansui Park Starbucks in Toyama really the world’s most beautiful? A rainy-night visit to the glass store by the canal, and the view from outside.
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Museum of Literature and Its Striking Cantilever
#34 Koshinokuni Museum of Literature
Wandering Toyama’s backstreets in the rain to Koshinokuni Museum of Literature, where a huge sleek cantilever defines the CAn-designed home of Toyama writers.
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Kengo Kuma’s Toyama Kirari — The Interior Won Me Over, Not the Facade
#33 TOYAMA KIRARI
Kengo Kuma’s Toyama Kirari houses the Toyama Glass Art Museum and city library. The facade underwhelms, but the open, cedar-lined interior is worth the visit.
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Twenty Minutes from Kanazawa: Toyama, the Prefectural Capital
#32 Getting to Toyama
Getting from Kanazawa to Toyama by train, riding the city tram to the Glass Art Museum and Koshinokuni Museum, then Kansui Park in the rain at night.
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Snack Bar or Stand, Whatever It Is, It’s Fun
#31 Hiroko
Tucked in Kanazawa’s Shintenchi alley, Hiroko is a decades-old wafu stando where 500-yen shochu and karaoke bring strangers together every night.
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Wine Bar Tucked Away in a Back Alley
#30 Petit²
Wandering a hidden food alley in Kanazawa’s Katamachi, I found Petit² — a tiny French wine bar with cheap Gascony wine, onion gratin soup, and jamón serrano.
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Strolling the Old Streets at Dusk
#29 Higashi Chaya District
Higashi Chaya, Kanazawa’s old teahouse district, after dark — quiet streets, kimusuko lattices, and Kaga roof tiles that set it apart from Kyoto’s Gion.
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