After we left our baggage to our hotel, we went to Kenrokuen garden.
Kenrokuen is included in Three Great Gardens of Japan with Korakuen garden in Okayama and Kairakuen garden in Ibaraki.
Well, I hadn’t been there :p
Finally I went to Kenrokue that is one of the Three great gardens of Japan !
ホテルに荷物を置いたあとは、兼六園へ行きました。
Why I went to Kanazawa in the middle of January ?
Of course, for seeing beautiful snow view of Kenrokuen !
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Where’s snow ?
期待していた兼六園の雪景色･･･雪景色は･･･(“ﾟдﾟ)？
Well, it was unusually warm winter and snow country don’t have much snow. They couldn’t open ski ground as usual.
So, as you see, there’s no snow in Kanazawa, too !
暖冬のため、１月中旬でも雪がまったくない兼六園。ただひたすら寒いだけ( ﾉД`)ｼｸｼｸ…
(But two days later, there’s heavy snowfall)
Nevertheless we visited to snow country during winter, there was no snow !
It was just too cold !
Yukiduri is to place ropes or wires around trees to protect them from the snow.
冬ならではの、雪吊り。雪ないけどね！ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
Though there’s no snow !
Mostly they do it around November to prepare severe winter.
Once it snow, those looks like Christmas trees !
Kenrokuen was constructed as garden of domain of Kaga (or Kaga province).
Maybe it was the least beautiful season for Kenrokuen when we visited there. Cherry blossoms, plum blossoms season, green season during Spring and summer, Autumn leaves and snow world. It must be beautiful. But when we went to there, it was dry wood season. Still it was good.
たぶん私たちは兼六園が一番美しくない時期に来てしまった気がします。
桜や梅の季節、木々が生い茂る春夏、紅葉する秋、雪景色。どれでもない枯れ木のとき。
それでもやっぱり風情ありますね。
Somehow, Amaterasu Omikami there.
なぜかここに、天照大神。
So, I couldn’t impressed by the view. Also there weren’t many people there.
寒いせいか、人も少なかったです。
But plum blossoms started to bloom 🙂 I have to visit there again.
梅が咲き始めていました。次はもうちょっといい時期に来たいな。
The view of city.
市街地の眺望も、雪があったらな…遠くの山には雪がありますね(ﾉ∀`)
They opened at night time to show light up gardens during we stayed there. But it was too cold, so I didn’t go out.
Sometime they open by free of charge. The information is available at their website.
It was getting too cold, so I gave up going to Kanazawa castle. we warmed ourselves in Starbucks coffee for a while…
About Kenrokuen garden (兼六園)
Address / 1-1 Marunouchi, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa
Station / Kanazawa station (JR)
March 1st – October 15th / 7:00 – 18:00
October 16th – End of February / 8:00 – 17:00
Close / No scheduled
Website / http://www.pref.ishikawa.jp/siro-niwa/kenrokuen/(in English, Chinese and Korean language)