Day 07 @ Kanazawa – Kazue-machi Chaya District

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Kazue-machi Chaya District is literally just across the road, and far quieter in comparison; I suspect largely because there are far fewer dining and retail establishments. If you’d like to just soak in the serenity of strolling beside the Asano River, this is the spot to go to rather than the busy and congested Higashi Chaya District.

The weather today was fiercely overcast though, so pictures here and also just now at Higashi Chaya all look fairly lifeless. Our cell group friends who’re also in Japan had just visited Kanazawa four days before we did and explored the same places. From the pictures they posted on Facebook, they benefited from gloriously sunny weather.

Kazue-machi Chaya and Higashi Chaya districts are on opposite sides of the road.
Shusei No Michi Street, which runs along the Asano River.
I suspect many of the houses here are residential, and the rest are a mix of guest houses, non-tourist-centred shops, and small local businesses.
Many small alleys behind and beside houses.
The wife stops every now and then and fishes out her phone to take macro shots of flora. Like here in front of a guest house at Kazue-machi Chaya. The locals also likewise stop around her equally curious, maybe wondering if she knows something is going to happen. 😅
Asanogawa Bridge ahead of us.
Ume Bridge.
Taking pictures of the row of houses from across the other side of the Asano River.

Our curiosity about both districts was sated at this point – and we’d only spent about 90 minutes instead of the three hours we’d set aside in the initially planned itinerary – we decided to head back to Kanazawa Station to explore the couple of malls there and see what our dinner options were. Continued in the next post!