Kanazawa's Kenrokuen Garden, renowned as one of the three most beautiful in the country, turns into a winter wonderland when yukitsuri (lighted, conical structures made of rope resembling ...

The sun doesn't come out much during the winter in Fukui, Ishikawa and Toyama prefectures, the trio making up the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan. However, even by their standards, this ...

Etsuko Aoki began a small cooking class in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture in 1957 when she was 24. Knowing she had studied at a culinary school in Tokyo before getting married, her husband’s ...