Niahak's Place

The following pictures are mostly from Kenrokuen (a huge garden/park in Kanazawa by Kanazawa Castle), but the first few are from Kanazawa Castle and other places we visited.

Kanazawa Castle is one of the oldest castles in Japan, and only has the gate and a few walls remaining. If you’re interested in more castle pictures, set 6 has Himeji Castle, which has been restored and is considerably larger.

The “Ninja Temple”. We couldn’t take pictures inside, but it was a Buddhist temple full of trapdoors and similar devices meant to protect Lord Maeda in case of attack.

The gate of Kanazawa Castle. The castle itself is around 150 years old.

Inside Kanazawa Castle. I think that’s the back wall.

Close-up of the tower.

One of the gates for pedestrians.

This is where we stopped for a picnic lunch. Really nice place.

This is the selection from a vending machine. There are also cigarette and alcoholic-drink vending machines in some places. I’ve heard of even stranger ones, but haven’t found any.

First picture of Kenrokuen. Kenrokuen was originally designed as the garden for the Maeda family, which was the reigning family in the Kanazawa area (Ishikawa prefecture) for nearly 300 years following the Sengoku period. Most of the Kenrokuen pictures speak for themselves, so not many have captions.



These tree supports are actually a pretty common sight. There are even some trees that are wrapped in straw.





Note that the ground does not, in fact, have grass on it. Most green on the ground in the park is moss.




The Koi at Kenrokuen are just huge. My foot is in the picture for comparison.
The rest of these images are still from Kenrokuen. They speak for themselves.