Travelsty: Stuff I've seen Kanazawa & Hiroshima

I sorted of stopped updating the blog during the trip, and never picked it back up.
Here we are after a hiatus of some 6 months or more, so apologies if I only have a vague recollection of exactly what I was doing or why I took any particular shot.

We arrive in Kanazawa next. It was a relatively short stay and I think I'd strained my leg or knee or something, so we didn't get a huge amount done.

We stopped by Omicho market on the way to garden.

The garden was good to see in proper autumn colors.

I'll add a bigger set of photos to the generic Garden post for those who like that sort of thing.

After that it was off to Hiroshima, where we had booked in a slot for the Mazda museum tour.
We ended up missing a train and running late so we had to catch a taxi to the museum.

The nice tour lady shows us the 3 wheel "truck" (aka an auto-rickshaw, basically a motorcycle with a tray on the back) that was the first vehicle Mazda made (they were a cork factory for the first decade).

There were various racing cars that they have built.

The 787B which was the first Japanese car to win the 24 hours of LeMans

This was a limited edition model they only produced 1000 of in this color.

There were some sections about their safety features

As well as some wanky modern art by the people that design the cars.

The clay prototype that is built before they start making actual cars.

Some concept cars that don't really exist

There was a showroom where you could sit in some vehicles that are generally available.

There was a gift shop with a lot of model cars. I bought a metacil pencil (a metal bodied pencil with a graphite tip that can draw a 16km long line before it needs replacing) that is coated with the Mazda "Soul Red" paint.