Sightseeing Information

Culture / History

Kenrokuen Garden is one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan, along with Kairakuen Garden in Mito City and Korakuen Garden in Okayama City.
Seisonkaku was built with an area of 1,500 tsubo as Tatsumi-goten. Takako, the wife of the 12th lord spent her retirement years there.
Kanazawa Castle's Ishikawa-mon Gate stands to the east of the remnants of Kanazawa Castle and is a designated Important Cultural Asset.
(Kanazawa Castle)
This complex of three buildings was finished in July, 2001. This complex is one of the biggest wooden constructions in Japan built after the Meiji period.
Gyokusen-en was constructed using the existing natural landscape. Gyokusen-en borrows its landscape from the grove seen in Kenrokuen.
Higashi Chaya District still preserves an aspect of the Kanazawa of feudal times, showing the picturesque atmosphere of the wooden lattice fronts of old geisha houses.
A few blocks away from downtown Korinbo, there still remain a few samurai houses surrounded by traditional mud walls.

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