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Around Higashi Chaya District

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Taki no Shiraito Monument

Travel / Tourism

Ishikawa Kanazawa-shi Namikimachi

“Gigetsu Kyoketsu” was a masterpiece written in the early part of Meiji period literary master Kyoka Izumi’s career. This monument was erected in 1957 on a spot where stagecoaches used to depart from as depicted in that novel. The monument stands on the bank of the Asano River a 10-minute drive from Kanazawa Station. It is said the character of Taki no Shiraito was a representative of the ideal woman Izumi pursued throughout his life.
Kanazawa Bikazari Asano

3.5

7 Reviews

Style / Fashion

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-8-3

A shop located in the “Higashi Chaya District” in Higashiyama, Kanazawa, Ishikawa which sells traditional Ishikawa crafts as well as select, cute creations. The shop’s shelves are lined with items for everyday use crafted by local artisans, including Kutani ware porcelain, Kaga yuzen dyed goods, Kanazawa metal leaf goods, Kaga nui embroidered goods, and paulownia crafts. Offer a large variety of reasonably priced items, as well, Asano is a popular destination for those searching for souvenirs and presents as well. Reservation-only metal leafing classes are held on the second floor.

Fun activity not only for kids Recommended. Various kinds of art activities to choose from. Helpful and friendly staff.
Sabo Soshin

4.0

48 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-24-1

A coffee shop located in the “Higashi Chaya District” in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture which makes each cup one at a time to order. Situated inside a former tea house, the shop retains this old-fashioned, Japanese atmosphere; deep red latticework and knickknacks scattered about create a soothing atmosphere. Sweets such as the handmade cheesecake, matcha green tea blancmange, and Japanese-style parfaits are all well-reviewed. Come take a break in between exploring the town and enjoy the tea house neighborhood beyond the shop’s windows.

Little tea house/coffee shop that was a lovely place to rest between site seeing spots. We signed ourselves up to wait at the door but only had to wait less than ten mins to get sat. I had the matcha...
Chaya Bijin

4.0

17 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-26-17

A cosmetics shop located in the “Higashi Chaya District” in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture which also has a café space. Situated inside a former teahouse designated a Tangible Cultural Property by the city of Kanazawa, the shop sells exclusive cosmetics made with local gold leaf as well as skin care products. Chaya Bijin has worked to create an atmosphere which harnesses the aesthetic senses of the area, including a register counter covered with gold leaf and a “beauty fountain” where customers are free to try a variety of cosmetics. The café space serves beautifying beverages such as vinegar drinks which alleviate fatigue and “bi no cha” beauty tea.

Chaya Bijin is a pretty little boutique selling cosmetics, face cream, accessories with gold leaf (tiny dust of gold leaf). Worth the visit when you are in Kanazawa.
Kanazawa Katani

Style / Fashion

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Shimoshinchou 6-33

A shop directly operated by a long-standing Kanazawa gold leaf manufacturer located in Shimoshin-cho, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. In addition to selling gold leaf for culinary and beauty purposes, the shop also carries a wide selection of high class Japanese washi paper and other oil blotting papers. There’s a classroom space in the back where short classes on gold leafing are held (reservation only). Participants can try gold leafing and create their own unique serving plate, box, or bento box. Participants can choose from some 30 stencil designs, ensuring that even absolute beginners can create something pleasing.
Chayu

4.0

20 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-7-8

A sweet shop and café located in the “Higashi Chaya District” in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture which operates out of the second floor of a remodeled warehouse once used for storing items used by a local public bathhouse. The first floor is a takeout shop selling gelato made with Ishikawa milk and local ingredients. The Higashiyama ice monaka, gelato sandwiched between monaka wafers made with bamboo charcoal, is particularly popular. The second floor tatami mat café space serves matcha green tea from a long-standing tea shop, high grade Japanese confections, and Japanese-style sweets made with select ingredients.

Interesting, but delicious pancake wafer around awesome ice cream or sorbet. Great place to sit and all the tourist walking around.
So-Bar Oto-yu

4.5

20 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-15-5

This store operates as a soba restaurant during the day, and as a bar at night. It is located in a side street of the Higashi Chaya District, in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The restaurant is inside a renovated spacious building with a high ceiling that was previously a public bathhouse. It has a mature atmosphere, with muted Jazz music flowing through the peacefully quiet building. The restaurant’s specialty is an aromatic cold soba which goes well with sake. The Shirayuki Torotoro dessert, topped with- fluffy meringue is also popular.

I never really enjoyed soba, but i decided to this a try cause it seems like a lot of locals like to eat here. I was whoa.. its so tasty. we ordered a bowl of the seaweed hot broth soba and the...
Higashiyama Mizuho

4.0

32 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-26-7

A restaurant located in the “Higashi Chaya District” in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture easily identifiable by the blue noren business curtain hang out in front of the entrance to the old townhome out of which it operates. Mizuho’s most renowned dish is perhaps its rice, made with select, Ishikawa-grown grains, and here you can enjoy Delicious Kanagawa “obanzai” cuisine with plump white rice freshly cooked in an earthenware pot. All-you-can-eat rice can be popularly added as an option to the restaurant’s lunch set meals for a small extra fee. Mizuho serves the tastes of Ishikawa in a casual environment, including dried blackthroat seaperch, free range eggs, and mackerel pickled in rice bran.

Every nice and high quality restaurant. Perfect for a lunch. You can try 6 different small dishes for 1.600 yen. Drink and dessert included.
Tsukuda no Tsukudani Main Shop

4.0

13 Reviews

Shopping

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Shimoshinchou 6-18

Tsukuda no Tsukudani is located in Shimoshincho in the city of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, a neighborhood with an old-style atmosphere. It makes and sells tsukudani, various ingredients simmered in soy sauce and mirin (cooking sake). This shop’s version uses local vegetables and other select ingredients produced in Japan, but no additives. Its flagship product is Kaga no Hakuho, stewed walnuts served in a mochi rice cake shell that looks like a walnut. Other favorite goods are rather creative: Utsuwa Chazuke, ingredients for chazuke (rice with green tea over it) in the wafer, fish tsukudani, and sweets made with Kaga Province vegetables. Gift packs containing a combination of menu items are a popular souvenir of Kanazawa.

金沢市尾張町にあります、金沢は佃煮の文化がいろこい町です、ここの佃煮は無添加で食品添加物を一切使っていませんここのうなぎの佃煮は値段は高いが絶品です。
Kagafu Miyata Main Store

Shopping

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 3-16-7

This specialty fu (breadlike pieces of wheat gluten) store is located in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. It is one of the few remaining buildings that retains its old appearance, and was established in 1875. The store uses only wheat produced in Hokkaido, and only domestically produced mochi rice flour for its raw fu. It has a reputation for the definite old-fashioned flavor of its carefully created homemade fu. Beyond the threshold of the shop curtain which has “fu” written on it, different types of raw fu, baked fu and fu confectionaries are on display. There is also a fu restaurant here, called Miyata Suzuan, which serves kaiseki course meals based on fu and Japanese sweets.
Kyoka

Style / Fashion

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-24-6

This selection store is located in Higashi Chaya District, Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. It has a variety of products for sale, including traditional crafts from Ishikawa Prefecture, and other traditional crafts selected from all across Japan. Its incense, lacquered chopsticks and hand towels are rich in variety, and there are a great deal of products sold here that represent Kanagawa. The cute snap lock purses with their original designs are popular as souvenirs. The elegant lattice door with its shop curtain appears at first glance to be the entrance to a classical small restaurant.
Kuragari-zaka and Akari-zaka

Travel / Tourism

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Shimoshinchou - Main town

The two sloping roads stretching parallel from “Kazuemachi,” the chaya district of Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, are also a tourist attraction of Kanazawa. Both the narrow roads, which are shaded and dark even during daytime, are spots where visitors can feel the unique atmosphere of a back alley of the chaya district. It is said that the Kuragari-zaka used to be a way for wealthy shop owners to get to the entertainment district to avoid being seen. Akari-zaka was named by the writer Hiroyuki Itsuki, at the request of local residents and there is a column on which his words are engraved.
Asanogawa Yoshihisa

Travel / Tourism

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 3-1-30

This is a select shop of traditional crafts in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, open in a tastefully restored building built in the Meiji era. The store stocks a variety of items such as Kutaniyaki ware, incense, Japanese candles, glass crafts, Japanese decorative cord and Wajima lacquerware. Accessories made from decorative cord designed in a modern style are popular. The shop also sells earrings, as well as Japanese and western hair accessories. There is also a gallery in the store.
Yamato Soy Sauce & Miso Higashiyama Direct Store

4.5

6 Reviews

Shopping

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-6-10

“Yamato Soy Sauce & Miso,” founded in 1911, is a long-established shop located in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The shop sells products such as Maru daizu soy sauce (using the whole soy bean) and pure soy sauce “Hishiho” and fermented salted koji mold. The take-out menu such as “koji drink,” available for tasting in the store, is also popular. The slightly colored “soy sauce soft cream” with the rich taste of milk matching the slight saltiness is a sweet with a new sensation.

My husband and I had a fantastic visit at the Yamato factory. We enjoyed the lovely tour from Patrick, the koji hand bath, the soft serve in soy sauce and amazake flavors and instant miso making...
Nakagawa

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-1-15

This confectionery shop is located in Higashi Chaya District, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The townhouse’s distinctive white walls and lattice door are unmistakable. The shop specializes in the Japanese “Mitsugashi” sweet, which is made by vegetables soaked in water and sugar. Around ten variations of this sweet are consistently on display at the shopfront. The vegetables used as ingredients for the sweets are carefully selected from sources all over the country, but are mainly sourced from Kaga. The chefs let the traditional sweets soak slowly without using any additives, and the exquisite flavor and freshness of the vegetables is immediately apparent.
Tea Room & Bar Goche

4.5

18 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-16-5

This tea room and bar is located in Higashi Chaya District, in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The building was originally constructed as a tea house for high-class samurai in the Edo period, and as customers pass through the entrance, they find themselves in a spacious, soothing space, where they can take their shoes off and relax. During the day, the tea room operates as a café, with siphon coffee, herbal teas and homemade cheesecake available to order. In the evening, the bar serves a variety of alcohol, such as Calvados and wine, all carefully selected by the owner.

金沢のひがし茶屋街にあります。当時近くの山乃尾料亭に宿泊しており、夕食を頂いた後にこちらに伺いました。こちらの店名の元となっている「セロ弾きのゴーシュ」について全く知らなかったので、後ほどWikiで調べて宮澤賢治のほぼ遺作の小説名であることを知りました。その小説でかかっていた音楽だったのですね。YouTubeで音楽を聞いてからバーを訪れるとBGMを楽しめると思います。
Takagi Kouji Shoten

Shopping

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-9-3

Opened in 1830 in Higashiyama, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, this koji shop sells rice from contracted farms, amazake (sweet mild sake made from malted rice), and fermented seasonings like salted koji (malted rice) and miso. The products are carefully handmade one by one using traditional methods and the finest ingredients, like Ishikawa-grown koshihikari rice and Hokkaido-grown whole soybeans. The “three year miso” naturally fermented in a wooden cask and the winter-limited traditional nare-zushi “kabura sushi” are popular. The machiya-zukuri building made during the late Edo period is also a treat.
Kagafu Fumuroya Higashiyama Branch

Shopping

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-25-3

Kagafu Fumuroya Higashiyama Branch located in Higashi Chaya District at 1 Chome, Higashiyama, Kanazawa City is a tea house. It sells Kagafu (wheat gluten cake) including kurumafu, fresh Kagafu, fried fu, saikufu shaped with patterns such as flowers, processed fu products as well as sudarefu which is a must-item for “jibuni,” Kaga’s local cuisine. Oyatsufu is a sort of a bite-sized snack with a roasted finish and has various flavors including curry and cheese.
Restaurant Jiyuken

4.0

123 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-6-6

Located at the entrance to Higashi Chaya District in the Higashiyama district of Kanazawa City, Jiyuken is a long-established Yoshoku (Japanese-style Western food) restaurant that was founded in 1909. Jiyuken serves proper, old-fashioned Yoshoku using recipes (such as a special demi-glace sauce) that have been handed down through the generations since the restaurant was first established. The rice omelet, made by frying rice and meat seasoned a soy-sauce-based sauce and then wrapping it inside a fried egg, has consistently been the most popular item on the menu. The lunchtime set meal (also available at dinnertime), which includes four Jiyuken favorites—home-made hamburgers, sautéed pork, potato croquettes, and fried shrimp in béchamel sauce—is also very popular.

I would say it’s a pretty good place for lunch. The Omurice is cheap and unique because the restaurant used rice with soy sauce instead of ketchup. Cream croquette is delicious. Hayashi rice is...
Nakataya Higashiyama Shop

Shopping

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 3-4-30

This Japanese confectioner is located close to Higashi Chaya District in 3 Chome Higashiyama, Kanazawa City. They sell Japanese confections made with choice ingredients, starting with extra fine dainagon azuki beans grown at contracted farms in Hokkaido. In addition to the famous “kintsuba,” there are many jellies like “tsuba monaka” and Kaga clan’s gift sweet “Oshiba fune.”

Ishikawa Kanazawa City Around Higashi Chaya District

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Ishikawa Areas

Long, thin Ishikawa prefecture runs along the Sea of Japan up into Noto Peninsula. Highlights of the seaside towns lining the west coast include Kanazawa, often described as a "Little Kyoto" thanks to its old wooden tea houses and geisha culture as well as its picturesque Japanese garden, Kenroku-en.