{"id":11659,"date":"2026-04-30T05:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11659"},"modified":"2026-05-24T21:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:15:28","slug":"japan-2026-day-15-kanazawa-well-nanao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=11659","title":{"rendered":"Japan 2026: Day 15 (Kanazawa, well, Nanao)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slept like a log at Onyado Nono. I think I complained about the other one but slept very well there as well. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll stay in another Onyado Nono in the future.<\/p>\n

Breakfast at the Onyado Nono Fukui was pretty fancy. I thought the chirashidon was a nighttime thing on the restaurant board, but it\u2019s what\u2019s for breakfast! (Upper middle.) It was another buffet. I missed the miso soup because I wasn\u2019t expecting it to be a white miso soup with clams. The salad bar also had pastrami so I tried a piece. It was serious pastrami which I never expected to be in Japan. There were also soba bowls but I was full already.<\/p>\n

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Next stop was Kanazawa, a place I\u2019d been many times. I was hemming and hawing about what to see, especially since I\u2019m pretty tired from all the walking I\u2019ve already done on this trip. The woman at the tourist information desk said, why not the Noto Peninsula? Probably not a lot less walking but I knew I\u2019d have a nice train ride where I could sit for a while. I got a little confused and looked at the schedule backwards so it turned out I had a little time to kill. Of course I went to a couple of stores looking for the pen I\u2019m searching for. I was pretty much told, \u201cNot a chance.\u201d (They weren\u2019t that rude but I got the idea.)<\/p>\n

Interestingly there were artworks on the pillars of the station and I don\u2019t think many people stop and look at. I only found them because I had a lot of time to wait for the train.<\/p>\n

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It was a nice 1 hour and 26 minute ride through the countryside.<\/p>\n

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I got to Nanao and there wasn’t a whole lot going on. There\u2019s going to be a big festival in a few days where they roll three huge 12m (~40 ft) tall, 20 ton (probably metric ton) floats through the tiny streets. I saw them preparing the floats in various spots during the day. The first was by the fish market.<\/p>\n

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The second was on the shopping street.<\/p>\n

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The third was at the shrine where the floats all head to.<\/p>\n

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You can Google Nanao Dekayama to see the completed floats.<\/p>\n

I also saw a small paving truck. I took a picture because I\u2019m used to seeing the big ones back in the US.<\/p>\n

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Two other things are the fish market and the old shopping street. The fish market looked like a normal retail fish market and at the back there was a food court.<\/p>\n

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I got a small tuna rice bowl because the woman recommended it as it’s locally caught tuna. I thought I was just getting a tuna bowl (upper left) and so I added the thing I\u2019m not going to mention on the upper right, but I was also given a giant bowl of miso soup with a large piece of chewy, bony, white fish in it. It was all fresh and excellent.<\/p>\n

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I got the small bowl because it was a late lunch but with the soup it ended up being quite a bit of food. I paid by credit card because I thought it was going to be expensive. My phone gave me an alert of the foreign transaction and it end up being only $16.90 USD.<\/p>\n

I went to the main shopping street and it looked like some of it was under construction.<\/p>\n

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Several historic buildings wrapped in construction cloth. When I read the signs it said they were culturally significant and damaged in the Noto earthquake of 2023. Repairs are expected to be done in 2027.<\/p>\n

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I also saw a couple of prefab buildings being used for restaurants, similar to the ones I saw in Kesennuma post-tsunami.<\/p>\n

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I was able to find a tasty cake and cup of coffee at a cafe on the shopping street.<\/p>\n

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The trip back was to Kanazawa was an express train. It cost more, but it only took 57 minutes.<\/p>\n

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I checked into the Via Inn that\u2019s inside the station. It\u2019s far from the tracks so the noise I hear is mostly from the hallway.<\/p>\n

I went to find some food and I was pretty seafooded out. There were two pasta restaurants next to each other and the brightly lit one was full of schoolgirls so I picked the fancier-looking one. I knew it wasn\u2019t all that fancy when I saw the food delivery robot and ordering on iPads.<\/p>\n

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The craft ginger ale wasn\u2019t bad.<\/p>\n

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I asked where they got the salmon for the salmon pasta and confirmed it was from overseas. Salmon is hard to fish for in Japan. Since the salmon wasn\u2019t local, I felt OK getting a Napolitan spaghetti instead of the salmon pasta. I got a seafood salad (I know, I\u2019m an idiot, I\u2019m not really good at avoiding seafood) which had more tuna and salmon sashimi than most mains I\u2019ve had. But it the fish seemed rubbery compared to the buttery smooth fresh-caught fish I had at lunch. It was fine, I was just spoiled at lunchtime. It seemed expensive at \u00a53025 but again that\u2019s only $19.00. Less than what I pay for a burger and fries at a lot of places in Portland.<\/p>\n

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Well I spazzed on the drinks picture. That\u2019s OK. I didn\u2019t get any Wilkinson this time. I\u2019m not entirely sure why I keep posting pictures of Wilkinson for my sister. I am drinking the Pocari Sweat hoping it staves off any leg cramps. So far so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Slept like a log at Onyado Nono. I think I complained about the other one but slept very well there as well. I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll stay in another Onyado Nono in the future. Breakfast at the Onyado Nono Fukui was pretty fancy. I thought the chirashidon was a nighttime thing on the restaurant board, but it\u2019s what\u2019s for breakfast! (Upper middle.) It was another buffet. I missed the miso soup because I wasn\u2019t expecting it to be a white miso soup with clams. The salad bar also had pastrami so I tried a piece. It was serious pastrami which I never expected to be in Japan. There were also soba … Continue reading Japan 2026: Day 15 (Kanazawa, well, Nanao)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11727,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11659\/revisions\/11727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}