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our penultimate stop before busting it up to hokkaido was kanazawa on the north western coast of the central part of honshu. here we stayed in a cool little ryokan in a bad part of town :) typical futon on tatami mat room around a nice little central courtyard.
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.kanazawa has the second of the three most beautiful gardens in japan - kenroku-en - and this was g's favourite of the three...
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.it's also the site of the 21st century museum of contemporary art, the best art museum we went to in the whole country. this may not sound like a grand statement for a couple of hobo tourists, but in fact art was probably the main focus of our holiday; one could not wrongfully describe our 6 weeks as a veritable modern art tour of japan. we went crazy for it. kanazawa's art museum was - hands down - la crème de la crème.
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it had it's own commissioned anish kapoor - g's favourite artist and fast becoming my own - which didn't fail to blow our minds, and a couple of other cool pieces, including the photogenic 'swimming pool' that you see here.
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we loved it.
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.it had it's own commissioned anish kapoor - g's favourite artist and fast becoming my own - which didn't fail to blow our minds, and a couple of other cool pieces, including the photogenic 'swimming pool' that you see here.
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.we loved it.
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...and that was it for the southern leg of our holiday! we did pop over to mito for half a day to visit the third of the three most beautiful gardens (kairaku-en), but the only amazing thing there was the service at the local post office. we chilled out (in the 30+ degree heat) in wonderful tokyo for a few days before our marathon train journey to japan's final frontier: 北海道. see you there next blog!
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3 comments:
Bondy, the Kanazawa gardens are rather messy in my opinion. They might not employ as many gardeners as in the nice Koraku en gardens. I read the blog many times with enjoyment but have to say that sometimes I got lost because of the huge amount of info. For me as a potential visitor to Japan I miss the map with a direction of your travel (similar to the one when you travelled around Tasmania). The map can have a reference number to each chapter of your blog – for me it would be easier to make a future travel plan (unless I will have a personal adviser). I am waiting for another chapter. Love mum
in fact i was thinking of doing exactly that mum. perhaps i'll create a perfect little map and go back and put it on all of my blog entries to show where everything is. good advice - thanks mum xxx
Ondro,
thanks for the quick response with the maps. It is exactly what I wanted. Love mum
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