I started the day by going to see the Omicho market. This is a large area full of stalls selling fresh fruit, vegetables and fish. It'd be a good place to go shopping if you lived here but as a backpacker it wasn't massively useful...
Kanazawa Castle Park was more to my liking. Another impressive looking castle with walls and a moat.
Just across from this was the Kenrokuen garden. It is considered one of the top three gardens in Japan, if not the top. It is a very beautiful place and is home to Japan's oldest fountain.
Here I tried green tea ice cream (see how I cunningly use odd flavours as an excuse to eat lots of ice cream) and it was delicious. You can generally guarantee ice cream is going to taste good, it wouldn't last otherwise.
Next it was onward to the samurai district. The area is another reconstruction (seriously, wood and paper buildings just don't seem to last all that long) but it was still worth a visit. Here I found a ridiculously expensive pottery shop (although I can't say that I've any other pottery shop experiences to compare with). I can't think of any reason that would make me spend in the region of £1000 on a bowl. Think of how much of anything else you could buy with that. A year's supply of green tea ice cream for example. Madness.
At lunch I ran into the opposite problem than usual. No English, only kanji. Thankfully there were big, colourful pictures to assisst me.
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