After a leisurely morning, we decided to take our home schooling with us and head out. However the first stop was to find a new pair of shoes for Robyn. Whilst we were in Osaka, her shoes got soaked in the rain and we tumble dried them, which in turn caused them to shrink. Hence the need for a new pair of new shoes. It was the first time Robyn has walked out of a shoe shop wearing the shoes she just bought!
It was now time to break those new shoes in, and we walked through the Omichon market again, and found a fruit and veg section. The girls had a second helping of breakfast: a pot of strawberries and a couple of pineapples on sticks.
We stopped by the Oyama Jinja Shrine, which has the first stone temple gates in Japan to give it a sense of being strong and firm! It also had these colourful glass panes at the very top of the gate, which also functioned as a lighthouse in the past. Definitely cannot be used as a lighthouse these days as the surrounding buildings would block the light!
There was a beautiful garden, with a pond at the shrine, and we decided to camp out by the pond to get some of our home schooling done. It's is lovely that we are able to change location and scenery for our school classes, even if we do get some weird looks from the people passing by.
Next stop was Kanazawa castle. Unfortunately, almost none of the original castle remains, it burnt down multiple times! However they recently rebuilt the gatehouses and a storage house according to the original methods and design. We got to learn a bit about how castles were built and the amazing carpentry skills required.
For lunch we tried another dish that Kanazawa is known for Pork Cutlet in Curry sauce. The girls destroyed theirs before we would even blink!
This was followed by the Kenroku-en garden, which classified as one of Japan's "three most beautiful landscape gardens". It definitely is one of the most gorgeous gardens that we have seen. It took over 200 years to complete…
We were also excited to go to the samurai museum, but unfortunately apart from the pretty garden and 2 suites of armour we did not learn anything new from it. There were plenty of letters regarding the samurai (with no translations) and a few bits of pottery all labelled solely in Japanese.
The rest of the evening was pretty chill with finishing off the school work and just relaxing to some good tunes.
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