Manhole Covers in Kanazawa City!

SN3O5055

A splendid fire hydrant manhole cover with the symbol of Kanazawa City, the stone lantern in Kanazawa castle park!

I’ve just come back for a 2-night, 3-day trip to Kanazawa City in Ishikawa Prefecture, so you can expect quite a few reports in the days to come!
I start with what I could see ta my feet, namely manhole covers!

SN3O5112

A brand new style of sewer manhole cover!

SN3O5054

A large water access manhole cover with central motif “金” for “金沢/Kanazawa City”!

SN3O5071

A large, probably private manhole cover although there were quite a few around!

SN3O5140

A large rectangular manhole cover seen here and there.

SN3O5089

The same as the brand new above but obviously a lot older and used above a fire hydrant!

SN3O5158

The same a s above. Fire hydrant are immediately recognizable as they are painted in yellow or the pavement around them also painted in yellow!

SN3O5265

A beautiful double manhole cover in the middle of the street!

SN3O5059

A fairly old big manhole cover!

SN3O5185

Interesting police manhole cover over access to traffic lights control machinery produced by Fukunishi Foundry!

SN3O5146

A manhole cover with the city emblem motif blending into its pavement environment!

SN3O5061

An old type of manhole cover over access to electricity machinery produced by Ohtake Foundry!

SN3O5062

Gas valve pit manhole cover. Green seems to be the universal indicator for gas!

SN3O5063

A medium-sized valve pit manhole cover!

SN3O5070

A newly made intricate manhole cover!

SN3O5138

Beautiful sewer cover (not manhole) found along the Higashi Chaya Resort Street!

SN3O5183

Another round manhole cover with a different central indication!

SN3O5184

Another manhole cover blending into is surrounding pavement along the street to the Ishikawa Prefecture Museum!

SN3O5082

This type of fire hydrant manhole cover is found all over the country but each city, as shown here again, has a distinctive symbol!

RECOMMENDED RELATED WEBSITES

So Good Sushi Restaurant in Nice France
Navigating Nagoya by Paige, Shop with Intent by Debbie, BULA KANA in Fiji, Kraemer’s Culinary blog by Frank Kraemer in New York,Tokyo Food File by Robbie Swinnerton, Green Tea Club by Satoshi Nihonyanagi in Shizuoka!, Mind Some by Tina in Taiwan, Le Manger by Camille Oger (French), The Indian Tourist, Masala Herb by Helene Dsouza in Goa, India, Mummy I Can Cook! by Shu Han in London, Pierre.Cuisine, Francescannotwrite, My White Kitchen, Foodhoe, Chucks Eats, Things that Fizz & Stuff, Five Euro Food by Charles,Red Shallot Kitchen by Priscilla,With a Glass, Nami | Just One Cookbook, Peach Farm Studio, Clumsyfingers by Xethia, PepperBento, Hapabento, Kitchen Cow, Lunch In A Box, Susan at Arkonlite, Vegan Lunch Box; Tokyo Tom Baker, Daily Food Porn/Osaka, Only Nature Food Porn, Happy Little Bento, J-Mama’s Kitchen, Cook, Eat, Play, Repeat, Bento Lunch Blog (German), Adventures In Bento, Anna The Red’s Bento Factory, Ohayo Bento,

Must-see tasting websites:

-Sake: Ichi For The Michi by Rebekah Wilson-Lye in Tokyo, Tokyo Through The Drinking Glass, Tokyo Foodcast, Urban Sake, Sake World
-Wine: Palate To Pen, Warren Bobrow, Cellar Tours, Ancient Fire Wines Blog
-Beer: Another Pint, Please!, Beering In Good Mind: All about Craft Beer in Kansai by Nevitt Reagan!
ABRACADABREW, Magical Craftbeer from Japan
-Whisky: Nonjatta: All about whisky in Japan by Stefan Van Eycken
-Japanese Pottery to enjoy your favourite drinks: Yellin Yakimono Gallery

Non gastronomy must-see sites by Shizuoka Residents

HIGHOCTANE/HAIOKU by Nick Itoh in Shizuoka City

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s