b'Best TimesKenrokuen Gardens in KanazawaOUR JAPANEXPERTSonja Cuihayesandjarvis.co.uk/japanKANAZAWA & YUDANAKAJAPANS TRADITIONAL CHARMCherry blossoms, well-preserved historic cities, and the very best pudding.By Sonja Cui, Travel ConsultantThough I love Japan Monkeys can sometimes be aggressive, but in Japan, the snow monkeys are very calm and quiet and mind their as a whole and have many favourite places, Kanazawaown businessjust as polite as the Japanese! This is a (and Yudanaka) are extra special to me. Ive alwaysvery special place to visit if you are interested in wildlife, wanted to see the famous cherry blossoms of Japan,and in winter you can even see them sitting in the onsen.and Kanazawa was the first place where I witnessed theIn Yudanaka, we had the traditional nine-course kaiseki abundance of pretty pink sakuras. I have travelled todinner. It was a great culinary experience through which Japan many times and even lived there for six months.I got to know more about the culture. Another Yudanaka While living in Tokyo, I took lots of trips to smaller townshighlight was the 24-hour pudding shop, the Yudanaka to see the traditional side of Japan. When my sisterOnsen Pudding Honpo, where I had the best pudding Ive came to visit, we decided to visit Kanazawa. En route weever eaten. I enjoyed this exceptional pudding so much stopped in Yudanaka, a very small traditional town withone evening that I was back there the very next morning many ryokans (inns), where we experienced typical onsenfor more.culture and saw the famed snow monkeys of the area.During the train ride from Yudanaka to Kanazawa you 40 \x1a HAYES JARVIS'