KANAZAWA BOUND!

Yuriko drives me to Yaotsu, saving me like 30 bucks in travel costs. We travel, I kid you not, through the mountains of japan, along farstretching highways and through tunnels that are kilometers long and finally end up at Yaostu. Actually… before we went in one tunnel is was gently raining, came out somewhere half way up a mountain and it was like HEAVY SNOWING. Anyways, moving on, the place is like a ghost town. As if, at one time, people flocked there, after a while, were bored by the scene they had created and simply found some other seaside hamlet to popularize, and eventually drain of beauty further down the road. Maybe I am completely wrong and its more of a Summer place… who knows.

Yuriko kill some time before the train. Have some lunch too.










Get on the train , and the trip is quite the sight. Enormous snow-covered mountains on one side, the Sea of Japan on the other. Its odd… to me this is almost a complete anomaly in nature… coming from near south east central Canada, but people ride this train everyday, the beauty passes them by without a second glance, as if walking by store windows where you just wouldn’t shop… so why look?




Hit Kanazawa, they have a nice train station…






but, the place looks… dirty and grim. Its also grey-clouded and raining. Go to Graemes work, Aeon, an English teaching school and he’s left me a map and has marked it with “shit you should see.” I thought a few of the marked attractions looked interesting enough, but I was ultimately put off from adventuring due to rain, and overall malaise. I hate grey weather. It also says in the guide/map that there is a famous saying in Kanazawa, “you can forget your bagged lunch, but never forget your umbrella.” No shit.

This interesting sculpture was outside Graeme’s place of work.



Hit a mister donuts for a while, shopped, went to some otaku places… bought some new markers…then poof… like I wasn’t waiting at all, Graeme was done work, and we were off adventuring in no time!

TO BE CON'T...