Kanazawa, oh Kanazawa

I had been wanting to visit Kanazawa since we first started planning this trip. It is known for its seafood.

It also has a very fancy bus station.

The morning started off a little rough. We were unable to conquer the walls of the Kanazawa castle:

Because of this nonsense:

But then we found the fish market, ate some incredible sushi and the angels sang.

Then onto one of the three best gardens in all of Japan, Kenrouken:

It is spider season

Then onto some Buddhist edumacation at the DJ Suzuki Museum. Very zen

I thought this was interesting for anyone interested in architecture:

Another prayer at a Shinto temple because we can use all the help we can get:

Then we went to a sweets festival which was like Sweet Hut in a bunch of tents. They had the greatest bouncy castle I’ve ever seen (or scariest?):

I had been worried about smokers in Japan because I had read there’s lots of smoking. But it hasn’t been a problem, thanks to the Smorking tents:

I would like to come back to Kanazawa and stay for more than one night. It’s a nice little city and I wish I could shop some more.

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OH YES WE DID!

Oh yes we did drive go-carts through Tokyo for 3 hours at night dressed like Mario Brothers without helmets or seatbelts. It was both crazy and crazy fun at the same time. I think we topped 70km/hr which Eric says is about 43mph. I’m sure it was perfectly safe. We drove across rainbow bridge too This is where I ogled the Valentino store in Ginza: And Rainbow Bridge in the background that we drove over... twice:

Burnt Miso Ramen

Let’s get a closer look at this unbelievable ramen from ramendining-gogyo.com, which is across from the US Army Hardy Barracks. This was more pork than I’ve eaten in years. But I loved every minute of it. And here is a square watermelon And we ate an Asian pear. They are in season.

Matsumoto

We left Tokyo and arrived in Matsumoto where there is one of the few surviving wooden Samarai castles called black crow: We climbed to the top of that bad boy and the stairs were super steep. Surprisingly I did not have an anxiety attack coming down. Then we took a soba noodle making class here: Here are my noodles and my favorite drink POCARI SWEAT. We also had burnt miso ramen here DEElish. Matsumoto is the birthplace of Yayoi Kusama (whose Hamilton of the Art world tickets we snagged at the High). The city museum of art had an awesome exhibit which included infinity mirrors but no photo allowed. These are her flowers outside. Her work is incredible. Now taking a bus to Takayama

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