Asia · Japan
A preserved samurai city, one of Japan's three great gardens and crab in winter.
Our notes
Kanazawa escaped bombing in the war, so its samurai and geisha districts are intact rather than reconstructed, and Kenrokuen is generally counted among the three finest gardens in the country. The city has a serious craft tradition in gold leaf and lacquer, and a food culture built on what the Japan Sea gives up, which in winter means snow crab. Kaga Onsen is thirty minutes south for the hot springs. The bullet train from Tokyo takes two and a half hours.
Stay
Kanazawa, Kanazawa & the Japan Sea Coast
In Katamachi, Kanazawa's dining district, a 100-room hotel sits a ten-minute walk from Kenrokuen Garden and six minutes from the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.
Price on request
Kaga, Kanazawa & the Japan Sea Coast
KAI Kaga is a 48-room hot spring ryokan in Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga, where every room is a KAI Signature Room furnished with regional papercraft, dyed fabrics and Kutani-yaki tea sets.
Price on request