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Kanazawa is still today home to one of the few active [[geisha]] districts remaining in Japan: the [[Higashi Chayagai]]. Kanazawa's second geisha district, the [[Nishi Chayagai]], was also prominent and active in the late [[Edo period]]. Other significant sites in the city include [[Oyama Shrine]], the so-called "Ninja Temple" of [[Myoryu-ji (Kanazawa)|Myôryû-ji]], and the [[Kenrokuen]] gardens, regarded one of the three most beautiful samurai gardens in the country. A number of samurai homes (''[[buke yashiki]]'') also survive in the city today.

Kanazawa is still today home to one of the few active [[geisha]] districts remaining in Japan: the [[Higashi Chayagai]]. Kanazawa's second geisha district, the [[Nishi Chayagai]], was also prominent and active in the late [[Edo period]]. Other significant sites in the city include [[Oyama Shrine]], the so-called "Ninja Temple" of [[Myoryu-ji (Kanazawa)|Myôryû-ji]], and the [[Kenrokuen]] gardens, regarded one of the three most beautiful samurai gardens in the country. A number of samurai homes (''[[buke yashiki]]'') also survive in the city today.

The castle was demolished in [[1873]], but has been partially rebuilt as a tourist destination and historical site in the postwar era. A large bronze statue of [[Yamato Takeru]], erected in [[1877]] in the Kenrokuen gardens adjoining the castle grounds, may be the earliest modern-style, bronze statue in the country of a "national" figure.

The castle was demolished in [[1873]], but has been partially rebuilt as a tourist destination and historical site in the postwar era. A large bronze statue of [[Yamato Takeru]], erected in [[1880]] in the Kenrokuen gardens adjoining the castle grounds, is the earliest modern-style, bronze statue of a "national" figure erected in Japan.

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