Volunteer Guides
One way that you get to see a place through a local person is to organise a volunteer guide. We did this in Kanazawa for an afternoon and were able to find out a lot more about the Samurai and Geisha districts in Kanazawa. The guides are volunteers and their command of English and knowledge varies. We made sure we had a couple of small gifts for our guide and did pay for "afternoon tea".We also paid for transport costs.


The gift store
Kanazawa castle