近江町市場/Oumichou Market Traditional Cache
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The cache is hidden around an entrance of Oumichou market.
The crossing Musashigatsuji is named after a Samurai who had been living around here, named "Nakagawa Musashi no Mori."
Oumichou market, which is at the north east corner of Musashiga Tsuji crossing, had been a biggest market in Kanazawa. Especially famous because of the fresh fish and seafoods. Kanazawa faces to the Japan Sea (Nihonkai) which has bottom of steep drop-off, meeting point of hot and cold water flow, so many kinds of fishes and seafoods are fished at Kanazawa. Also processed seafoods (dried, salted, dipped in soy sauce, fermented, etc) seafoods which had brought and sold to the capital Kyoto are famous here. The local spiecies "Kaga yasai" vagetables are available here. If you find nice souvenir, you can send to somebody or your home directly from shops using the cool/chilled delivery (Ku-ru Takuhaibin).
Recently the old market is rebuilt, still crowed market remains in the 1st floor, and you can enjoy eating seafoods at many restaurants at the 2nd floor. Also many shops in other floors, and modern shops (cloths, etc.) are available at another building "Meitetsu Emuza" in front of this market.
---in Japanese---
武蔵ヶ辻はこのあたりに住んでいた中川武蔵守という武士の名に由来しているといわれています。
近江町市場は、武蔵ヶ辻交差点の北東角に位置する、金沢でも最も大きな市民市場です。金沢が面している日本海は急に深くなり、また暖流と寒流の交わる辺りなので、金沢では多数の種類の海産物が獲れます。また京都に運ばれ売られたことから、独特な海鮮の加工技術 (干物、漬け物、発酵など) が発達しました。もしお土産に気に入った食品があれば、クール便などで発送することもできます。
この市場は最近改築され、1階の市場は従来通りであるものの、2階で海鮮を中心とする食事を楽しむことができます。他のフロアにも商店があり、またそれ以外のショッピング (服飾など) は、向かいの『めいてつエムザ』で楽しむことができます。
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