⭐ Highlight
Kenrokuen Garden, Kanazawa
One of Japan's three great landscape gardens, beside Kanazawa Castle, an hour away by train.
Typical duration
120 min
Price
Garden ~¥320; train ~¥3,000 each way (≈ €1.9–18 / $2–19)
From port
55 km / 34.2 mi
Transfer time
70 min
Indoor / Outdoor
outdoor
Queue risk
medium
🕐 Best time to visit
Go early; it is a full-day round trip from the ship
Kenrokuen, laid out by the Maeda lords over two centuries, is ranked among the three great gardens of Japan - a composed landscape of ponds, streams, stone lanterns and teahouses beside Kanazawa Castle. It is at its best under snow, when gardeners rig the pines with the rope cones (yukitsuri) that have become the garden's signature image.
Getting there from the port
Tram/shuttle to Toyama or Shin-Takaoka Station, then Hokuriku Shinkansen to Kanazawa