Visiting Kanazawa/ Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Kanazawa/ Carlos Pueblo

I was waiting at Niigata Station to take an express train via Echigo Line to

Kashiwasaki Station to continue to Shinetsu Main Line to Naoetsu Station

to connect to Kakuriku Shinkansen to Kanazawa. My problem is that the

express stops at Joetsumyoko Station which is not a Japan Rail System but

a local rail line, Kita Shinano Line. I must pay 450 yen to pass the station to

Shinkansen station. I attempted to argue my way to pass the exit yet there

was only 8 minutes  and my Japanese conversation was not quite sufficient

for argument, finally I gave in to pay the staff 500 yen. He was released and

put on his uniform hat, grasping my luggage and rush out toward Shinkansen

entrance. The Shinkansen staff understood the situation and smile sign to

pass. This Hakuriku Shinkansen only opened last year, 20115, an extension

to Fukui City will be completed in 2022 planned in 2012. Japan Rail is always

expanding for example, on 03/26/2016, Shinkansen will go through the great

tunnel from Aomri, Honshu to Hakodate, Hokkaido.

 Kanazawa city is very pretty yet very unique, actually all cities and township along

the railroad are very beautiful, at least Japanese make them very clean and pretty.

I have visited the Oyama Jinja Shrine, the fourth High School Memorial Museum,

Passing by Kanazawa Castle Park and Kenroku-En Garden, Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki

Memorial, and a small tatami tea house nearby Kanazawa Art Museum of which I

Was very much impressed. It was donated by the last lord of Kanazawa to the city

Moved from Kanakawa Prefecture near Tokyo, it consists a tea house and snow ground

garden etc. I checked the Furoumachi Bakufu history, after the mid term of Ashikaga

Shogun, Kanazawa was ruled by Buddhist monks called themselves Peasant’s Kingdom.

That was a pure land section of Kyoto Honganji until mid 16 century, Oda Nobunaga sent

his deputy, Sakuma Morimasa, to conquer those monks, who became the lord of Kaga

briefly, another deputy, Maedo Toshiie defeated him and became the new lord of Kaga

later becoming a much bigger lord of Kanazawa. His wife, matsu, was quite famous at that

time, has a statue on the Oyama Shrine. I run out of space to describe more history.

I want to describe my surprise during my visit of Kanazawa. I ran into the Ishikawa Kodo

Gatgou, the old Ishikawa Senior High School Memorial Museum. The school was built in

1887 as my alma mater, Taiwan Normal predecessor, Taihoku Kodo Gatgo was built in

1922. They were all the products of the Great  Meji Restoration.

I also visited Suzuki Daisetsu Teitarou Memorial Museum. Suzuki is very famous for his

Zen Buddhism.