Ishi no Sato Park
I found this park on the Japanese blog and thought I’d share my experiences there with you.
If you find yourself in Kanazawa during the summer, have small kids, and have a rent-a-car, then a short, half-day excursion to Ishi no Sato Park might be your thing.
It’s deep in the mountains about an hour drive on local roads from downtown Kanazawa, and is a very fresh, little portion of river perfect for kids to cool off in during the hot summer.
After driving down the highway, you will start coming into rice fields and be driving through some pretty countryside roads but that’s part of the fun.
Once you get there, there’s a small parking lot and you can walk down to the river there.
There are three main portions of the river, upstream, middle, and a little bit downriver where the ponds are deeper.
The deeper portions, actually all the portions have little fish.
We brought some nets and some little plastic buckets from Daiso, but there was no way we were catching those fish. They were so fast, we were dreaming if we thought we were gonna catch one of them.
The water was cool and really made for a pleasant experience…
until a bus load of kids from the local school pulled up and turned the once serene stream into a loud rambunctious playground.
I’ll let the pics speak for themselves.
Hopefully you won’t run into this situation and to be honest, I think it’s rare. However, it does happen, and we were lucky that we got a few hours of playtime before they came.
Anyways, check it out totally a cool hidden spot. Bathrooms are clean and modern too!
Have you been here or do you have a similar place you like to take your kids? Let us know in the comments below!
