Best Hotels Near Higashi-Kanazawa Station | One Stop from the Jewel
One local stop from Kanazawa — and, surprisingly, a walkable back route to the Higashi Chaya teahouse district.
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Best Hotels Near Tsubata Station | The Fork in the Road to Noto
Where the Noto line forks from the main line — a battle-pass hinterland and a budget base ten…
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Best Hotels Near Matto Station | Haiku, Trains & the Hakusan Plain
The haiku poet's hometown where shinkansen sleep — a museum of morning glories, a park of bullet trains,…
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Best Hotels Near Kaga-Onsen Station | Historic Hot-Spring Villages
Hokuriku Shinkansen Guide · Kaga-Onsen Station Best Hotels Near Kaga-Onsen Station: The Historic Kaga Hot Springs —Yamashiro, Yamanaka…
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Best Hotels Near Komatsu Station | Airport City & Kaga Onsen Gateway
Hokuriku Shinkansen Guide · Komatsu Station Best Hotels Near Komatsu Station: Airport City, Kabuki Heritage &the Door to…
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Best Hotels Near Kanazawa Station | The Jewel of Hokuriku
Hokuriku Shinkansen Guide · Kanazawa Station Best Hotels Near Kanazawa Station: The Jewel of Hokuriku —Kenroku-en, Geisha Districts…
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Hokuriku Shinkansen Guide: Tokyo to Kanazawa, Fukui & Tsuruga
Shinkansen Line Guide · Hokuriku Shinkansen Hokuriku Shinkansen Guide: Tokyo to the Sea of Japan —Karuizawa, Nagano, Kanazawa…
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Wajima: Japan’s Lacquerware Capital & the Noto Peninsula Morning Market
The Noto Peninsula (能登半島) extends northward from Kanazawa into the Sea of Japan like a peninsula reaching toward…
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Sea of Japan vs Pacific Coast: Why Japan’s Two Coastlines Feel Like Different Countries
Japan's main islands sit between two fundamentally different bodies of water — the Sea of Japan (日本海) to…
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Shirakawa-go & Gokayama: UNESCO Thatched Farmhouses in the Japanese Alps
Deep in the mountain valleys where the Sho River (庄川) cuts through the Japanese Alps between Gifu and…
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Kanazawa: Japan’s ‘Little Kyoto’ — Kenroku-en, Higashi Chaya & Omicho Market
Kanazawa (金沢) owes much of its current reputation to a historical accident: the city was never significantly bombed…
Read more →Kutani Pottery: The Bold Blue and Red Ceramics of Kanazawa
Kutani pottery (九谷焼) — produced in the Kanazawa area of Ishikawa Prefecture, with historical origins in what is…
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