Kanazawa (Ishikawa)
Local Guide
[2025 year edition] the event recommended at Kanazawa in spring and a Kaga area

The event and the festival which can sense prosperity and tradition in Kaga Hyakumangoku are jam-packed in glorious spring Kanazawa and Kaga area. The recommendation events which can be enjoyed casually in a sightseeing opportunity is also introduced at the inside. There are also a lot of held events in G.W., so I'll recommend to make a plan of travel rather early.

Charming sights in the spring when a carp streamer swims a river

Big carp seems to be doing river climbing for the state down which a carp streamer floats. Photograph is around the plum NO bridge.
Big carp seems to be doing river climbing for the state down which a carp streamer floats. Photograph is around the plum NO bridge.

The one you're enjoying as charming sights in spring at Asano river which flows through a city in Kanazawa gracefully, "carp sink". Even the whole country where a lot of carp streamers brought near from a citizen are let run around it with a river from a plum NO bridge to Asano river big bridge of an elegant 3 ream arch (national registered tangible cultural property) is an unusual event. The "Yuzen sink" where the form that a multicolored carp streamer swims a clear stream expansively is Kanazawa's Traditional Pottery and Kaga Yuzen, just like. The streamer hung on a plum NO bridge dances in a wind and colors Kawabe more showily.
An esplanade is provided a riverside with, so while taking a walk how about enjoying oneself?

Cozy events filled with affection to a child.

It's also fun to open Lunchboxes at a riverbed, looking at the carp streamer which flows like a Yuzen sink.
It's also fun to open Lunchboxes at a riverbed, looking at the carp streamer which flows like a Yuzen sink.

It's 1991 that a carp sink has started. It has started with the local resident who wishes children's healthy growth. The atmosphere local wind music by a junior high school student, festival stall, game corner and rice-cake making are held at a riverbed, and which is simple and cozy. When I stuff my mouth, the warm thought that children are beloved seems transmitted through the rice cake which has been just included with local people.
The place where a carp sink is performed is near popular tourist attraction "by a day, with the selling point of, restaurant district", and G. W. Naka is very crowded. Surrounding pay Parking will also become full immediately from a morning, so use of a public transportation is recommended.

▼ Asano Kawagoi sink
Date: May 4, 2025 (Sunday . national holiday) 10:00-15:00
A meeting place: Higashiyama, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa River and the neighborhood from a plum NO bridge to Asano river big bridge.
Telephone: 076-231-3689 (lumber community center)
URL:https://kanazawa-kankoukyoukai.or.jp/event/detail_30336.html

Pottery city of charm filling of Kutani chinaware and the Hokuriku area maximum level

The Kutani chinaware attractive from the showy traditional pattern to the pop design is in a row.
The Kutani chinaware attractive from the showy traditional pattern to the pop design is in a row.

Kutani chinaware is pottery of the picture produced at Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, Nomi city and Kaga city, and history for about 360 years is here from the Edo Period. The "Kutani bowl festival" held by "Kutani Pottery village" for 3 days in a Golden Week on May 3rd-the 5th every year is the pottery city about 50 Kutani chinaware trading house specially-installed stores open. As well as a local person, domestic and abroad, a person doesn't care and visits and shows a serious crowd from the whole country.
A masterpiece of fine arts by a Kutani chinaware author usually equals in the special price of this day in a row and is outstanding in the impression from the capacity of the envoy. It's also the pleasure of the pottery city to look for a bargain though it's a delusion in this way and that.

A participatory type event of china-painting Experience.

China-painting Experience which can do the first time casually from a child to an adult
China-painting Experience which can do the first time casually from a child to an adult

All ordinary year "KAM Nomi city Kutani chinaware museum of art" 4 houses are opened for free of charge at Kutani Pottery village assembly place, and an event is held variously including china-painting Experience, and charm of Kutani chinaware can be tasted much.
A large number of eating and drinking and goods corner are also opened, and there is also a booth of Wajima Lacquerware and Suzu baking. After Hokuriku Shinkansen opens to traffic a visitor out the prefecture increases, in the afternoon, every day, big crowding. It's recommended to go to the morning's earliness.

▼ Kutani bowl festival
Time frame: Every year May 3-the 5th
Time :9:00-18:00 (in the last day, to 17:00)
The charge: Free entrance
A meeting place: Kudani Pottery village (Ishikawa-ken Nomi city Izumidai Machiminami, 22), Neagari meeting place (Neagari overall culture hall), Wadayama meeting place (next to Nomi home museum) and Nomi city brick-and-mortar outlet pottery.
Telephone: 0761-58-6656 (Ishikawa chinaware commerce and industry cooperative society)
Parking: no charge
URL:https://kutani-shoukumi.or.jp/festival/

I meet charm of lacquer ware in the mountains where I breathe in a town of hot water.

Lacquer ware in the mountains with outstanding beauty of the grain
Lacquer ware in the mountains with outstanding beauty of the grain

Lacquer ware producing center in Kaga Hyakumangoku where hot spring in the mountains lines up Kanazawa and Wajima. Beauty lacquer ware in the mountains with history in more than 400 is called "in mountains of a grain (pheasant)" by the excellent technology which grinds a grain down using a potter's wheel from Azuchi-Momoyama Period [Era], and which is a grain and, exactly, if, the feel of a material matched with a hand is charm.
A lacquer ware city "lacquer ware festival in the mountains" is held during a Golden Week every year. About 40 stores stand in a row lacquer ware traders, and bustle is shown with the person who does evaluation. The bowl which can be done, a lunch box and lacquer ware in the various mountains such as the interior and miscellaneous goods usually use it including traditional lacquer ware of tea ceremony wares and a soup bowl, and gather. How about finding a favorite container this chance?

It can also be satisfied with hot spring according to the shopping.

Yunomae square of a thronged chrysanthemum
Yunomae square of a thronged chrysanthemum

There is also eating and drinking sale by special exhibition of "bowl Mikoshi Shrine", the eating and drinking booth and a kitchen car of diameter 1.5m as well as lacquer ware. The square where a meeting place is in front of the communal bath in hot spring in the mountains chosen as "eastern grand champion sumo wrestler" by a hot spring program "chrysanthemum hot water". Hot spring is enjoyed before and behind the purchase, and there is also a footbath in a square, so it's also the pleasure hot spring place that you can take a rest at the intervals.

▼ Lacquer ware festival in the mountains
Time frame: It's held in ordinary year GW.
Time :9:00-17:00
A meeting place: Seat in the mountains Yunomae square of a chrysanthemum (hot spring Yakushicho in Ishikawa-ken Kaga Ichiyama, 1)
Telephone: 0761-78-0305 (lacquer ware union cooperative society in the mountains)
Parking: no charge (Special Parking is used. There is a free shuttle bus to the meeting place.)
URL: https://yamanakashikki.com/

The traditional festival by which a hikiyama on the Kaga feudal clan relation (A pull and, oh.) parades

The scenery a luxurious hikiyama equals in a row is beauty of the highlights.
The scenery a luxurious hikiyama equals in a row is beauty of the highlights.

Spring galay of "usagihashi (would, chopsticks) shrine" and "Motoori Hiyoshijinja" performed in May every year in Komatsu-shi. Because it was called "travel" that Mikoshi Shrine parades a parishioner town, it's said that a name of "travel festival" stuck. Kaga Maeda family Mijiro Toshitsune-Maeda originates from Komatsu castle with the (in 1640) time in 1640 when I retired, and a hikiyama (float) appears from 1766 (1766). 10 sets of 8 sets of inside which existed until the Kaga feudal clan last years is also preserved importantly now, and you exhibit during a festival period at each town.
The "hikiyama ei arrangement" which deifies and the biggest highlight is lit up, and has complete set of glittering hikiyama in one hall. The "hikiyama child kabuki" shown by taking place in this hikiyama adds a flower to a festival.

The "hikiyama child kabuki" a small actor performs enthusiastically is must-see.

I can ask the pride from which tradition from the Edo Period is inherited to act like superior to adults impassioned performance.
I can ask the pride from which tradition from the Edo Period is inherited to act like superior to adults impassioned performance.

Hikiyama child kabuki in Komatsu where Japanese three big child kabuki which equals Omi Nagahama and Musashi Chichibu is said to be one. It's the feature that a girl performs the whole country rare. The children chosen as an actor also remember difficult words and choreography by about only 2 months and meet a performance with the one of the severe guidance. The form that I'm supported by a callant in the town, a Gidayu ballad narrator and people of a shamisen rod, fit a showy costume on a small body and appear on the stage is judged as a real kabuki actor, MAGOU? Applause laughs and has that and is excited about excellent performance with tears, and a stage and an audience are wrapped in a hot sense of togetherness.

▼ Travel festival
A schedule: Friday, May 8, 2026-Sunday on the 10th
A meeting place: Komatsu-shi, Ishikawa central city other ones
Telephone: 0761-24-8195 (Komatsu-shi sightseeing Culture Division)
Parking: special free Parking and municipal management Parking around the Komatsu Station (payment required)
URL:https://www.city.komatsu.lg.jp/soshiki/1015/event/1/18297.html

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