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Daily Step/Distance = 15,445 steps = 6.3 miles (16 floors of stairs!)
Itinerary: Kenrokuen Park and Exquisite Exhibition of Ohinasama Dolls in Seisonkaku Villa ↝ 21st Century Modern Art Museum (with an Anish Kapoor!) ↝ Higashi Chaya District
Trippers in front of Kanazawa Castle before going into one of the three important gardens of Japan, Kenroku-en.
Two famous images of Kenroku-en that we were lucky enough to view in the snow.
Kenroku-en, and Kanazawa in general, prepares its trees for the winter snows by tying up branches to a central pole to keep the weight of the snow from breaking the well-groomed branches of very old trees.
Kanazawa is also well-known for its gold leaf. It appears in all sorts of unexpected places, like soft serve ice cream cones, on top of marinated squid, or sprinkled on a delicious, belly-warming dessert of mochi and adzuki beans called zenzai.
Three Trippers who volunteered to pose in front of the winter blossoms.
Color art outside the 21st Century Art Museum.
Trippers in the bridge next to Higashi Chaya, a beautifully preserved geisha district in Kanazawa with historic buildings and winding streets.
Interesting, modern version of a tsuzumi drum (that resembles a traditional gate (torii) found at the entrance of shrines) was constructed in wood in front of the east gate of Kanazawa Station.
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