We started today in Tsumago, had breakfast at a more reasonable 8am and headed out to have a final look around the village. We gave Fujioto San some Jersey fudge to thank him for such a memorable stay so he took us to the Japanese doll exhibit and made me dress in a Japanese wedding dress (yes, there are pictures)!
We visited the local museum, where the museum guide showed us around. It was interesting to learn about the internal architecture of a traditional Japanese Shogun home. Apparently, the Emperor even stayed at the property which is now the museum (i can’t remember in which period though).
We then travelled by train to Kanazawa. There isn’t really much to report about that other than the mountain scenery was lovely and I was never bored long enough to read my book. I even bought some Ekiben (train bento) to munch along the way. All good intentions but after the first two hours, it descended into munching Haribo, Mikado (called Pocky here) and waffles.
We arrived in Kanazawa late afternoon. Our hotel is very grand and lovely. It’s nice to have a hotel bar (or, in Phil’s case, a hotel Coffee shop), western style chairs (whooop!) and beds. We went to the Samurai house museum this afternoon, it only opens for one week per year and (you guessed it!), it’s open this week. Having had such a good museum guide in Tsumago we were able to easily navigate the Samurai museum. The gardens were out of this world. I have taken many, many pictures. I think Phil liked the sword display the best (he took many, many pictures).
It’s good to be “back on the grid” hopefully we can now upload some pictures!!
- Hippie -
