Day 7: Tokyo to Kanazawa

After a much needed relaxing morning, we headed to Tokyo Train station for our bullet train to Kanazawa.

Apparently the food vendors near train station ticket counter have limited heating options, for example, they are not allowed to have microwaves. Once again, I am so thankful to Google Translator app, since the cashier had trouble understanding my request of heating things up. My cold bento box was actually quite good!

Evan went to get some fried chicken, and he was eating it cold, and said it wasn’t too bad. As we were leaving, a Japanese guy stopped Evan, and pull out a piece of paper with English words on it. From what I could understand, he was the guy sold Evan cold fried chicken, and had hard time explaining why it was cold. So he went somewhere got his words translated and wrote them down, and then tracked Evan down to apologize and explain. Japanese people are indeed extremely polite!!

Our bullet train ride was fast and smooth, 4 hour ride was a breeze.

We booked an Airbnb house here. Even though the house is over one hundred years old, it’s very well maintained and tastefully decorated. I love the tiny garden in the courtyard! It has the perfect location of right next to all major attractions of the city.

The reason Evan chose Kanazawa was for its famous gardens. Kenroku garden, which is right by our house, is the most famous one, considered as one of the best in Japan. Since it will be a lot of rain tomorrow, we decided to go there immediately before it closes.

Well, if we can imagine what a perfect Japanese garden would look like, this is it!! Every sight you see here is picture perfect! The same location can look differently from different angles. The flowers blossomed by little streams, ancient trees of various sizes shaped the spaces, and little bridges provided the focal points. We could spend all day here to admire every corner. Unfortunately it was closing time.

Dinner was at a restaurant called Itaru, it was a perfect place because it’s busy but still got few tables available to us. The food was surprisingly good!! The sashimi was the freshest we’ve ever eaten, especially the mackerel, it’s entirely possible the fish was caught this morning!

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