While in Kanazawa we visited the famous Kenrokuen garden, one of Japan’s "three most beautiful gardens." The garden is certainly large, with many paths winding through it. It’s surrounded on all sides by the city, resembling many large city parks in that respect. Photographically I was stymied by the too-bright sunlight for most of our visit, finding this garden wall off in one unnoticed corner.
After the garden we made our way over to the Higashi geisha district: no geishas, but lots of school kids drawing the antique buildings in the district.
Kanazawa was a study in contrasts. The guidebooks had led us to expect a kind of small town Kyoto: gardens and geishas. The reality is that Kanazawa is a bustling city, with traffic, mass transit and all that entails.
Photos: Garden Wall & Pine Tree—Kanazawa, 2008; School Kids Drawing—Kanazawa, 2008; Purchasing Lottery Ticket—Kanazawa, 2008
2 comments:
Where is the middle photo???? Just a ? - children????
Yeah . . . top is the garden, middle is the kids, and bottom (illustrating modern Kanazawa) is the lottery office.
Clicking on the upper pix makes them bigger. Doesn't seem to work if the photo is in the middle of the text.
Oh well.
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