Summary
This time, a one-day trip to “Ohmicho Ichiba” and “Higashi Chaya-gai,” which are essential when it comes to sightseeing in Kanazawa!
Enjoy fresh seafood unique to Hokuriku and Kanazawa oden for the first time.
Both “Higashi Chaya-gai” and “Kazuemachi Chaya-gai” where I strolled around in kimono had a very nice atmosphere ✨
Please refer to this page when you visit Kanazawa.
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Travel Itinerary
10:00am Kanazawa Station（金沢駅）
This trip started from Kanazawa Station!
The large Tsuzumimon Gate is overwhelming✨
It takes 2.5 hours from Tokyo to Kanazawa!
Kagayaki
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Kanazawa Station, located in Kanazawa City, is a station of West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and IR Ishikawa Railway Company. Its symbols are the huge “Motenashi Dome” and the wooden “Tsuzumimon gate” , and it was selected as one of the 14 most beautiful stations in the world. From Kanazawa Station, you can take a bus that tours around the castle town of Kanazawa, making it convenient for sightseeing.
10:30am Ohmicho Ichiba（近江町市場）
The first place we headed for was…….an indispensable part of Kanazawa sightseeing!
A splendid seafood market where seafood, fruits, and delicacies are sold and can be eaten.
It was a heavenly street! It was a great success!
Entrance
atmosphere (e.g. musical)
Fresh seafood
fruit
Sweet shrimp
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Located in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Ohmicho Market is a market with about 170 stores specializing in fresh fish, vegetables, fruits, etc., as well as restaurants. The market is well known for its fresh sushi and delicious seafood, and in the winter, the cheaply-priced kabosu and crabs are highly recommended. It is still nicknamed “Omicho” by the citizens.
Ohmicho Ichiba Restaurant District Ippuku Yokocho（近江町市場飲食街 いっぷく横丁）
The first store is here where you can find hamayaki, oden, sashimi, and sushi.
It’s great that everything is available so you can eat and drink quickly anyway.
I wanted to drink a wide variety of sake, but I held off for now!
Exterior
guide
Ticket machine for Hamayaki
Grilled scallops ¥700, grilled oysters ¥700
Oysters, turban shells and scallops were the choices for the beach yaki.
All were excellent and won with a beer and a beach grill!
I ate it all up so fast that I ordered an additional order of gando sashimi (800 yen) and fried white shrimp (600 yen).
Gundo is a fish in the state before it grows into a yellowtail, he said.
It’s feeling lighter than yellowtail!
Deep-fried white shrimp ¥600
It was the kind of thing that never stops, that never stops completely.
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Ippuku Yokocho is a food court located in Kami-Omi-cho, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. You can enjoy various cuisines such as fish and seafood dishes, oden, and sushi. There are also standing taverns and bars where you can casually enjoy a drink. According to word of mouth, hamayaki, sashimi, and fried white shrimp are popular, and there is a wide selection of sake. With everything you need, it is the perfect place for a quick bite to eat and drink.
Omatsu Suisan Co（大松水産株式会社）
We visited two restaurants during our Ohmicho Market eating tour.
After you choose your own nodoguro (rosy seabass), you can have them filleted and seared!
Exterior
Sashimi
sashimi of nodoguro
Nodoguro sashimi (seared) ¥1,400
I was too happy to enjoy the nodoguro with plenty of fat and luxuriously served with salt!
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Omatsu Suisan Co is a fresh fish specialty restaurant located in Kami-omi-cho, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The restaurant is especially popular for its seafood and seafood dishes, and is a popular place to eat at the Ohmimachi Market. The attractive feature of this restaurant is that you can have the nodoguro you choose seared, and you will feel happy when you have nodoguro with plenty of fat and salt.
Ohmimachi Croquette（近江町コロッケ）
The third restaurant we ate at was this one, which we unexpectedly purchased after being lured by the nice aroma of fried food.
I had a hard time deciding between too many different kinds of croquettes, but I bought a sweet shrimp croquette!
Many people were also buying curry bread, which was also very interesting.
Exterior
Sweet shrimp croquette ¥350
It is crispy, chewy, and very tasty!
The shrimp were packed tightly and the prawns were plump and juicy.
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Ohmicho Croquette, located in Shimo-Omi-machi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a restaurant specializing in fried food. Their famous Omimachi Croquettes are popular, and there is a wide variety to choose from. Word of mouth recommends the sweet shrimp croquette in particular, which is highly regarded for its freshly fried taste.
1:30pm Kimono Rental VASARA Kanazawa Kenrokuen Store（着物レンタルVASARA 金沢兼六園店）
Leaving Ohmicho Market, we rented kimonos.
It is nice that even bags and hair ornaments can be rented out!
There were so many colorful and cute kimonos that I was torn between them, but I decided to go with a white kimono.
Exterior
clothing
Lots of variety
obi
hair ornaments
briefcase
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Kimono Rental VASARA Kanazawa Kenrokuen is a kimono rental store located in Kenroku-cho, Kanazawa City. Close to the Ohmicho Market, the shop offers many colorful and cute kimonos, and bags and hair ornaments can be rented out, making it popular among tourists.
2:30pm Higashi Chaya-gai（ひがし茶屋街）
It is a classic sightseeing spot in Kanazawa that has a great atmosphere and makes you feel like you have stepped back in time!
It is a picturesque town no matter where you cut off the street, and just walking around is relaxing.
The large willow tree was also magnificent, and many people were taking pictures of it!
willow tree
Streetscape
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Located in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Higashi Chaya-gai is one of the teahouse districts that represent Kanazawa culture and is a popular tourist attraction. It is an ideal spot for taking pictures with a Japanese flavor.
3:00pm Kureha（久連波）
Since I had come all the way to the chaya-gai district, I went to a tea shop to have a smoke.
It was an extraordinary moment to wear a kimono and enjoy matcha tea and fresh sweets at a teahouse✨
You felt like your mind was being washed.
Exterior
Japanese accessories
tatami room
Menu
Matcha Hot ¥400, Fresh confectionery ¥450
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Kureha, located in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a tatami room café. Visitors can enjoy seasonal sweets and matcha green tea in the atmospheric store overlooking the teahouse district.
4:00pm Kazue-machi Chaya-gai（主計町茶屋街）
A short walk from Higashi Chaya-gai leads to another teahouse district!
The atmosphere is more relaxed and less crowded than Higashi Chaya-gai.
When you enter the narrow street as if you were being sucked in, it too has a nice, quaint atmosphere!
Streetscape
The red building looks very nice.
dark slope
Just taking a leisurely stroll is calming!
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The Kazuemachi Chaya-gai in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a well-known tourist attraction. Located along the Asano River, it is lined with beautiful two-story teahouse buildings and long-established kappo restaurants. It has a different atmosphere from Higashi Chaya-gai, and the backstreets are also nice and tempting to take a leisurely stroll.
5:00pm Kimono Rental VASARA Kanazawa Kenrokuen Store
Return the kimono.
5:30pm Kanazawa Local Sake Brewery（金沢地酒蔵）
I was wandering around when I discovered that there was a huge line for Kuroyuri, where we were having dinner!
This is a store specializing in locally brewed sake located inside Kanazawa Station.
There was a tasting corner with vending machines, so we compared drinks!
Here I bought a bottle of sake as a souvenir! I had a hard time deciding, but I bought two bottles.
signboard
local sake
local sake
purchased goods
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Kanazawa Local Sake Brewery is located in Kinoshinbo-machi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, and specializes in locally brewed sake. Located inside Kanazawa Station, you can sample local sake for 100 yen per cup. It is a perfect place to purchase souvenirs.
6:00pm Kuroyuri（黒百合）
Dinner was Kanazawa oden, a long-sought-after dish!
We had oden with scallops and fu (Wheat gulten bread), a dish unique to Kanazawa.
I wanted to drink hot sake, so I toasted at Ura Manzairaku!
It has a super dry, crisp taste, but is relatively mild on the palate, making it a great oden and hot sake.
Exterior
Interior
Kanazawa Oden Menu
Kanazawa Oden Menu 2
Traditional Kanazawa Cuisine Menu
set meal menu
Set meal menu 2
service a la carte
Today’s Recommendation
Sake Menu
Kurozukuri (cuttlefish salted [soused] and mixed with its own ink) ¥420
The blackened brew was also very flavorful and definitely a boozy one.
Kanazawa oden: radish ¥320, egg ¥120, scallop ¥450, fu ¥250
The scallops are very large and, needless to say, delicious.
I was surprised that the fu oden was even better than I had imagined! It was soaked in flavor and melted in your mouth.
The dashi is gentle and elegant, and you can eat as much as you like!
glaze-grilled loach ¥200
I ordered glaze-grilled loach, which I had found at Ohmicho Market and was curious about.
In contrast to the size of the dish, the taste of the loach can be felt!
It has a concentrated flavor and is also a good drink.
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Kuroyuri is a restaurant located in Kinoshinbo-machi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, where you can enjoy Kanazawa oden and other local and seasonal dishes. The restaurant is located in Kanazawa Hyakubangai “Anto” and is close to Kanazawa Station.
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