Posted in Kanazawa, Photography, tagged 金沢, Ishikawa, japan, Kanazawa, March, photography, plum, plum blossom, plum grove, spring, 梅の花, 梅林 on 2013/03/24| Leave a Comment »
Utatsuyama (卯辰山) is a small mountain in Kanazawa that stands taller than even the castle, and the Utatsuyama Park (卯辰山公演) area, accessible from Higashi Chaya-gai (tea district), is home to a number of gardens, including the iris garden I visited last summer. Last week, I hiked to the plum grove, which, in addition to Kenrokuen’s much larger plum grove, is one of the best places to view the plum blossoms in the city.
Posted in Kyoto, Photography, Sight-seeing, Travel, tagged castle, cherry blossoms, Kyoto, Nijo Caste, Nijojo, photography, plum grove, Shogun, spring, UNESCO on 2011/04/22| 1 Comment »
I’m actually shocked it took me this long to get to Nijô Castle. When I travel to Kyoto, I’m perpetually hanging out near Sanjô/Kawaramachi/Teramachi, but when my parents came to visit, we had dinner plans in Osaka and no plans for the morning. Normally I take my new-to-Kansai friends to geek out in DenDen Town or enjoy the onsen of Spa World, but my parents, being neither into the anthropology of otaku culture nor “public bathing,” merited going out of my standard destinations. Nijô Castle (Nijôjô) was close to where we were staying in Kyoto, so we decided to head there.
