{"id":33115,"date":"2022-12-18T19:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T11:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=33115"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T13:51:59","slug":"day-08-kanazawa-kenrokuen-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2022\/12\/18\/day-08-kanazawa-kenrokuen-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 08 @ Kanazawa – Kenrokuen Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter what the adults schedule for our family vacation itinerary, the kids – or Peter at the very least – have been really looking forward to just one thing this trip: and that’s snow. Lots of it. When we were finalising our next day\u2019s itinerary yesterday evening, we saw that light snow with some rain was expected on the next day, 18 Dec:<\/p>\n

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And that was exactly what happened today: it started lightly snowing while we were at our hotel having breakfast, then stopped when we started making our way to the Kenrokuen Garden by way of the Kanazawa Loop Bus (\u00a5600 for adults for a day pass, purchased at the Bus Information Counter). A 10-minute ride later, right when we got to the entrance of the garden, we got snow pellets first, followed then by a combination of snow, rain and wind!<\/p>\n

Kenrokuen<\/strong> is regarded as one of the top three most beautiful landscaped gardens in the country, so a visit to the park was always going to be one of our trip’s highlights. What we didn’t expect was our first visit to a landscaped garden while it’s snowing. In short, unlike the lush greenery of Japanese gardens I saw in September in 2019, or the stunning late Autumn colors at Kokoen Garden<\/a> @ Himeji just a few days earlier, we got to experience Kenrokuen under a layer of white.<\/p>\n

The garden was also fairly busy with buses offloading large groups of visitors to the site. Most of them were locals from what I could hear when they spoke, but there was also a smaller group of Singaporeans\/Malaysians exploring the area. But Kenrokuen is large enough that the place didn’t feel congested, thankfully.<\/p>\n

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We entered via the Renchimon Gate, which was a bit of an uphill climb from where we alighted from the Loop Bus. We should have entered from the Mayumizaka Gate. It started snowing right when we crossed over to the admission gate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Snow hail with wind.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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There are many trails throughout the gardens, unlike some of the other smaller Japanese gardens we’ve visited that had a single trail running through them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Can’t see what the sign says LOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Brief spots where the sun came out, revealing a glimpse of what Kenrokuen normally looks like.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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3 degree C – brrrr!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kids \u2018enjoying\u2019 winter: or rather, H is for the most part a little miserable, while P was enjoying it mostly.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A lone fellow resting at the Kasumiga-ike pond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We spent an hour exploring the garden, and the weather alternated between dark overcast => brief sunshine => snow => snow hail => rain, and there was even the occasional thunder heard too.<\/p>\n

Continued in the next post at Kanazawa Castle Park!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No matter what the adults schedule for our family vacation itinerary, the kids – or Peter at the very least – have been really looking forward to just one thing this trip: and that’s snow. Lots of it. When we<\/p>\n

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