
Kanazawa Cultural Spots Visiting Tour : Call for Participants
Meeting place: Korinbo Bus Stop in front of the Daiwa Department Store
Application limit: 18:00 a day before. Spanish or Chinese Groups are also acceptable independently, but dependent on the availability of the guide of the day. In this case, follow the English guide.
Course: Nagamachi Samurai House District ➡️ Oyama Shrine➡️ Kanazawa Castle➡️ Kenrokuen Garden & Lunch ➡️ Higashi Chaya District
Entry Fee: ¥5,600 inc. admission fees. Lunch will be selected and paid individually.
Application Form: https://forms.gle/1a2jjYBANtXKBAn1A
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Organizer; Nonprofit Organization Kanazawa Culture Guide Network

Nomurake House: Photo from HP

Nomurake House: Toshiie Maeda entered Kanazawa Castle in 1583. As high-ranked followers of the Daimyo, the Nomura Denbei Nobusada family served as the horse guard group leader, and in various roles for the shogunate administrators over 11 generations, seeing their yearly salary increase from 1000 koku (a specific volume of rice) to 2200 koku. They are a family with a deep history, who possessed a house site over 1000 tsubo (1 tsubo = approx 3.3m2) until the 4th year of the Meiji era (1871) when the Tokugawa Shogunate system was abolished.

Kanazawa Castle

In 1546, Kanazawa MIDO was built as a central Cathedral of the Buddhism Jodo Shinshu in Kaga, and became a peasant kingdom ruled by the people and the priests. In 1580, Morimasa Sakuma conquered the Mido and replaced to Kanazawa Castle with surrounding moats and towns. After the battle at Shizugatake, Toshiie Maeda became the lord of the castle and started to reconstruct the castle and the towns in 1583, based on the plan presented by Ukon Takayama (Christian Daimyo) and other retainers.
In 1676, the fifth lord Tsunanori Maeda relocated the construction office in Renchi garden back to the castle grounds to construct a villa on the vacant lot. A garden built around the villa.
It is the beginning of Kenroku-en garden development. The name of “Kenroku-en” was given by Sadanobu Matsudaira, a member of shogun’s council of elders, on the request from the 11-th Lord Narinaga Maeda.
Kotoji Lantern in Kenroku-en Garden
