We decided to visit Ishikawa prefecture.
We woke up really early in the morning.
It took us 3 hours to drove from my place to our destination -- Kanazawa.
On the road... I drove up to 130km on the highway. My aunt pretty much slept all the way in the car. But my uncle on the other hand was very nervous... he kept on looking out for me. He wanted to drive, but I didn't let him because he has no insurance.
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We arrived in Kanazawa just around lunch time.
We had a quick lunch first, then, we visited one of the top 3 Japanese garden in Kanazawa.
The garden was named Kenroku-en.
The garden was really big, it has serveral building inside.
We went into 2 of the tea houses inside the garden and had tea and sweets there.
There is also a castle right across the garden, which we didn't visit.
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After the garden, we went to visit a street that is famous for its tea houses.
We continued to drink more tea and eat more sweets >.<
This was our 3rd set of tea and sweet of the day.
In this tea house, it has a modern atmosphere while keeping the traditional aspect of it.
They use different combinations of hand-made hardware to serve the tea and the sweet. So eventhough we all ordered the same thing, each set was presented differently.
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Kanazawa has a nickname called "small Kyoto". And the Ishikawa prefecture is known for its traditional crafts, including hand-painted kimono 友禪, making of gold leaves 金箔, hand-made lacquer ware 輪島漆器and porcelain 九谷燒.
We found many shops that sells goods decorated by gold leaves: gold leaf chopsticks, gold leaf soap, gold leaf ice cream and cake, gold leaf tea, gold leaf hardware, etc.
Here is a picture of a room decorated with gold leaf.
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Since Sophie, Mark, and Chris also visited Kanazawa, I met up with them after I had my dinner with uncle and aunt.
jealous
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