Speaking of Kanazawa, many people might not be familiar with this place. For most people in Japan, cities like Tokyo, Kyoto, and Osaka are the go-to names, and Kanazawa might even be mistaken for some remote, impoverished village.
In fact, in terms of population and economic development, Kanazawa really can't compete with nearby Niigata, let alone famous metropolises like Tokyo and Osaka. But if we were to turn back time by about two hundred years, rewinding to the Edo Period, the story of Kanazawa would be quite different.
As the home castle town of the Kaga Domain's feudal lord during the Edo Period, Kanazawa was governed by the Maeda Family and was Japan's fourth largest city, only behind Edo, Kyoto, and Osaka in terms of commerce and culture.
