• Brief description: Said to be the most beautiful garden in all Japan with bridges, lakes, waterfalls, trees and flowers. These are the old gardens of Kanazawa castle. If you get there before 17.00, go for a walk. If not, leave it for the following day as it is worth seeing in the light. The path will take you by the Contemporary Art Museum, which is well worth looking at, even if only from the outside!
• Duration of visit: 1 hr
• Opening times: 1 March to 15 October from 7.00-18.00 / 16 October to the end of February, from 8.00-17.00.
• Cost: 300¥
• How to get there: a 10-min. walk from the Smart Choice hotel. Leave the hotel and head for Tatemachi Shopping Promenade, at which you should turn left and walk to the end of the street. Then turn right and continue until you come to the first street you meet. Turn right again and the garden is at the end.