Sat 13 Kanazawa

 market, gardens, old town rest 5 crowns shogun burger

Our day got off to a hurtful start.  Emmy has been using the Japanese shampoo and no conditioner and her hair was looking particularly good today, hence a compliment and the photo.  She, on the other hand, said I looked like Russell from the movie Up and even was so kind as to look it up for me.  Just had one thing to say to her.....fair call 😉😂

Then we marched on over to Omicho Fish Market where we sampled some Wagyu, very nice but Steve and I did get a a good 25c worth of gristly bits (estimate based on weight of gristle as a proportion of weight of total $12 skewer)

Em has discovered Japanese peaches!  Mmmm Mmmm.  Worth $3 each.

And then Steve decided to have a single, enormous oyster that took 3 bites to eat.  He described the last one as creamy.  Not selling it.

And then we wandered through the castle gardens....

to the meticulously maintained Kenroku-en gardens, with special care given to support the branches of the older trees.

And then it was over to the historic Higashi-chaya district, which was full of character and nowhere near as crowded as Kyoto.  

For dinner we headed to Shogun Burger for some (comparitively) expensive burgers.  They were good, but being a bunch of burger connoisseurs we felt qualified to rate them a solid 7, not bad but not the best we've ever had.