Kanazawa & Takayama Google Maps | 80+ Curated Locations by a Former Japan Local

Get access to my private Kanazawa, Takayama & beyond Google Maps locations! ⛩️🍵

As someone who lived in Japan for 8 years and keeps going back, I’m making travel even easier for you by giving you access to my private Kanazawa Google Maps! Have all my Kanazawa, Takayama, Noto Peninsula, Kaga Onsen, and Shirakawa-go tips, recommendations, and unpublished spots inside your Google Maps with a few clicks.

Why choose this guide? Curated by someone who lived in Japan for 8 years. Perfect for first-time & repeat visitors exploring beyond Tokyo and Kyoto.

This map includes over 80+ locations(!) spanning one of Japan’s most rewarding and least-touristed regions.

Most visitors to Japan never make it past the Golden Route. This map covers the Japan that rewards the curious: Kanazawa’s impeccably preserved geisha and samurai districts, the dramatic coastline of the Noto Peninsula, the hot spring towns of Kaga Onsen, the thatched-roof villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, and Takayama’s old merchant streets. Every pin is a place I’ve been to personally and would send a close friend.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Restaurants, Izakayas & Easy Eats: 21+ spots for soba, sushi, Hida beef, craft sake, and the kind of regional food that defines this part of Japan. From Omicho Market’s freshest kaisendon to a reservation-only Chinese restaurant in Kanazawa that locals guard like a secret, sake brewery taprooms in Takayama’s old town, and Hida beef spots where the quality-to-price ratio will ruin you for wagyu anywhere else.
• Attractions & Streets: 27+ temples, shrines, gardens, historic streets, and natural landmarks across the region. The geisha quarter at Higashi Chaya (Kanazawa’s most elegant street), the samurai district at Nagamachi, the 1,000-year-old Natadera Temple carved into a cliff face, the stacked rice terraces of Shiroyone Senmaida dropping into the Sea of Japan, Shirakawa-go’s UNESCO thatched-roof farmhouses, and Takayama’s beautifully preserved Sanmachi Suji merchant streets.
• Shopping & Experiences: 17+ markets, artisan shops, onsen, and experiences worth building your day around. Miyagawa Morning Markets in Takayama, the craft workshops along Yamanaka Onsen’s atmospheric Yuge Street, Kanazawa’s gold leaf shops and lacquerware studios, public onsen baths in the Kaga hot spring towns, and the kind of independent Japanese shops where everything on the shelf is worth bringing home.
• Cafes, Bakeries & Sweet Fixes: 19+ teahouses, kissaten, bakeries, and sweet spots across the region. A geisha-era teahouse in Higashi Chaya serving matcha and gold leaf sweets, riverside outdoor tea pavilions at Kakusenkei Gorge, craft coffee stands in Takayama’s old town, and local bakeries and wagashi shops that give you a reason to slow down between sights.
• Free in-app updates when I explore new parts of the region.
• Lifetime access (meaning there’s no limit to using it).

Stop spending time pinning all my recommendations and instead easily add them to your Google Maps on your phone & laptop.

Once your purchase has been made, you will receive an invitation to join my private Google Maps Locations and an easy instruction manual on how to access the map.

Note: At checkout, you need to provide your Google Maps account email address. I will grant access to that email address for the Google Maps Locations. You will receive the map within 24 hours of purchase.