One day in Kanazawa, Japan

A day through Kanazawa’s best-known sights that lie close together: Oyama Shrine, Kanazawa Castle, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kenroku-en, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art and D. T. Suzuki Museum. 6 stops, about 1.7 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Oyama ShrineTemple or shrine · On the map
  2. Kanazawa CastleCastle · 0.4 km on from Oyama Shrine · On the map
  3. 21st Century Museum of Contemporary ArtMuseum · 0.4 km on from Kanazawa Castle · On the map
  4. Kenroku-enGarden · 0.4 km on from 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art · On the map
  5. Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of ArtMuseum · 0.2 km on from Kenroku-en · On the map
  6. D. T. Suzuki MuseumMuseum · 0.3 km on from Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art · On the map

6 stops, 3.5 km on foot along the streets: about 46 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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