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:: Prologue
#1 Prologue – This Trip Is Kanazawa
:: DAY 1
#2 Komatsu Airport and APA Hotel – The Way to Kanazawa
#3 Kanazawa Station – Kanazawa: Start Here, End Here.
#4 POP BY COFFEE – First Steps, Wandering Kanazawa
#5 Nagamachi Samurai District – Not Kyoto, The Streets That Make Kanazawa Its Own
#6 Ichigohan Bunke – Kanazawa Seafood Is Really Something
#7 Il Mare – Wandered In, Stayed for the People
:: Street Scenes
#8 Katamachi Boulevard – Street Scenes: Kanazawa’s Shopping and Nightlife District
:: DAY 2
#9 Omicho Market – Kanazawa’s Kitchen, Taken Over by Tourists
#10 Ohoridori – Pleasant Walk Around Kanazawa Castle
#11 Oyama Shrine – To Me, It Was a Garden, Not a Shrine
#12 Kanazawa Castle – The Castle That Survived by Losing Its Keep
#13 Kenroku-en – This Garden Takes More Than One Photo
#14 Kawabata Sengyo-ten – Best Kanazawa Seafood? Turned Out to Be Shrimp
#15 Hige no Mise – Tucked in a Local Alley, a Gem of a Wine Bar
:: Street Scenes
#16 Back Alleys of Katamachi – Street Scenes: Night Alleys, Most Missed
:: DAY 3
#17 Turban Curry – Darkest Curry in Japan
#18 Ishikawa Shiko Memorial Park – Peaceful Park — My Favorite in Kanazawa
#19 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art – The Museum, Kanazawa, Present Day
#20 Ishiura Shrine and Kanazawa Shrine – Small Shrines, Deeper Than They Look
#21 Honda-no-Mori Park – The Park, Known as the Forest of Culture
#22 D.T. Suzuki Museum – ‘ZEN’ Experienced Through Space
#23 Mori Mori Sushi – Is Conveyor Belt Sushi in Kanazawa Worth It?
:: Street Scenes
#24 Around the Sai River – Street Scenes: The Quieter Side of the Sai River
:: DAY 4
#25 Shirakawa-go – Beating the Snow with a Steep Thatched Roof
#26 Teuchi Soba-dokoro Nomura – Cold Soba Made from Mountain-Village Buckwheat
#27 Gassho-zukuri Minka-en – Where the Crowds Thin Out, and the Thatched Houses Open Up
#28 Nihonshu Makoto – Whole Lot of Ishikawa’s Local Sake
#29 Higashi Chaya District – Strolling the Old Streets at Dusk
#30 Petit² – Wine Bar Tucked Away in a Back Alley
#31 Hiroko – Snack Bar or Stand, Whatever It Is, It’s Fun
:: DAY 5
#32 Getting to Toyama – Twenty Minutes from Kanazawa: Toyama, the Prefectural Capital
#33 TOYAMA KIRARI – Kengo Kuma’s Toyama Kirari — The Interior Won Me Over, Not the Facade
#34 Koshinokuni Museum of Literature – Museum of Literature and Its Striking Cantilever
#35 Starbucks Kansui Park – The Starbucks They Call the World’s Most Beautiful
#36 Toyama Sodachi – Yakiniku to Restore My Energy
:: Street Scenes
#37 Toyama Street – Street Scenes: Rainy Toyama, Half a Day on Foot
:: DAY 6
#38 Tsubajin – Lunch at a 350-Year-Old Ryotei
#39 Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture – Taniguchi & Son: Tradition Rendered in a Modern Language
#40 Ozeki – Last Night in Kanazawa, Best Meal of the Trip
:: Epilogue
#41 Epilogue – Kanazawa Trip Wrap-Up
