To have a table to sit and eat snacks, as well as a microwave oven, is wonderful.

After taking the west exit off the Kanazawa Station, look to your right; there are these two tall buildings.
The building on the right-hand side is where our hotel, the Hyatt House, is located.
The building on the left-hand side is also a Hyatt, which is a bit pricier and without a coin laundry facility.

This is the 3rd floor lounge of the Hyatt House, which offers a comfortable sitting area and complimentary
soft drinks, hot coffee, tea, and a selection of wine, beer, and sake, available from 11 AM to 8 PM.
How can they afford to do that? Maybe that is the reason the hotel adds a 15% service charge to every room rate.

We saw a flyer listing restaurants located on the 1st and 2nd floors of our hotel's building;
one of them is Unagi Yondaime Kikukawa (うなぎ四代目菊川), so we made a 6:30 PM appointment for dinner there.
This is a small branch, not as spacious as the one we went to in 2023 on top of the Kyoto Station, but the food was as good.
MC ordered a HITSUMABUSHI set to enjoy it 3 ways.
The price was 4200 JPY, which seemed to be the same as in 2023.
How does the restaurant manage to keep their prices the same?

VT ordered a whole grilled eel in HITSUMABUSHI style to enjoy it 3 ways.
The price was 5780 JPY, which, again, seemed to be close to its 2023 price.

Hyatt House's breakfast.
If you book your room directly on the Hyatt's website and as a Hyatt member,
each room includes two complimentary breakfasts.

The breakfast spread had a very simple Japanese section.
Rice, miso soup, fried chicken nugget, beef curry, pickled vegetables, fruits, desserts etc.

... and a more substantial Western food section.

Kanazawa Station has many shops and restaurants. We often
walked to the station or through it to reach the eastern side, where
we could catch a looping bus to downtown.

We took a city bus to visit the Omicho Market, Kanazawa's kitchen.

We ate oden in the Omicho Market,

... and bought 麝香葡萄, Muscat Grapes.
(1,000 JPY is about USD $6.50 at the time when we visited.)
The label says these grapes were from Nagano.
Persimmons were in season during the fall, but we did not buy any until later in Okayama.

Ready-to-eat seafood was abundant in the Omicho Market.
We bought this grilled squid in the lower photo, and it was thick and juicy.

On another day, we went to Mori Mori Sushi in the Forus building for a late lunch.

We always enjoyed a sushi meal at Mori Mori.

On another day, we took a bus to Shirakawago (白川郷) for a visit.
Since it is located halfway between Kanazawa and Takayama,
many tourists visited it as a stop on their transition from one destination to the other.

Our highway express bus dropped us off at Ogimachi (荻町), the largest village and main attraction of Shirakawa-go.
We immediately took a shuttle bus to the observation deck to view the village from high above.
This is a photo of the Ogimachi Village taken from the observation deck.

After taking a shuttle bus back down to Ogimachi, we walked along its main street.
The red arrow points to the observation deck where we were earlier (to view the village from high above.)

Lunch was at a restaurant along the Ogimachi main street.
MC ordered a mountain region specialty, Hida beef and miso grilled on a Hoba leaf (飛驒牛朴葉味噌燒 定食).
The beef was very tender and the miso tasted so good. The meal was very reasonably priced at 2,400 JPY.

VT wanted something without meat, so he ordered a Tempura Soba,
which looked very good too.