Kanazawa: Shivering cold walks in city of gold
It must be the dream of every potato farmer to find gold while digging up the humble root. This was apparently what happened to a lucky farmer long ago, according to a Japanese legend. When the farmer washed some wild potatoes in a nearby spring, specks of gold also floated up together with the mud and grime. The lucky place was thus named Kanazawa, meaning “gold marsh”. The City of Gold Today, if you go to Kanazawa, you don’t need…