Staying an extra night in Kanazawa for QB to regain a bit of energy. Today she is very tired, head hurts, skin hurts. Napping as I write this.

Weather- none but heat.
We packed lots of rain gear for the famous rain in Kanazawa, hiking and elsewhere. Cold weather hiking stuff. To date not a drop of rain has hit our heads and most days in the mid to upper 70’s. Even hit 81 yesterday. So much for puffy jackets and rain gear.

Breakfast at hotel buffet skipped in favor of tea and french toast in the hotel lobby. QB needed some decent tea and a bit of western food. Buffet not suited for western tastes.

Headed to the Kanazawa station to get tickets to Osaka tomorrow. Line at JR counter would have been an hour or more. Braved the automatic ticket machine. Naturally needed and got some help. Pic shows the complications – no English.

Very busy station. Taxi line 30 or more deep.

Station is enormous as to be expected in a major city. Even a department store, uncountable number of food choices and gift choices,

7-Eleven has a large store, again no surprise. This is just a very very small sampling. The triangles are 123, a favorite of George and QB. Many flavors.

Sandwich section

7-Eleven here has 9 registers, all had queues.

Off to the Edo section, the old samurai section. Just a few buildings remain, three to be exact. Museum, house, soldier house.

Soldier entryway

There are a number of these relics still scattered about.

Picnic dinner

Finishing up Kanazawa with public baths – both of us. A nice way to finish up.