郷里で １ (In My Hometown -1-)

　さる15日、郷里金沢へ妻と墓参に行った。快晴、高温の中、野田山墓地から寺町、野町の寺へと恒例の道順をたどる。野田山にあるのは妻の先祖の墓で、そこへ行くには約100の石段を登る必要があり、ちょっとした運動になる。宿泊は金沢都ホテルのプラス・カードのポイントが35,000になったのを使っての特別プランで、6階のジュニアスイートルーム。広い窓から、JR 金沢駅とその周辺のよい眺望が得られる。上掲のスケッチは、金沢駅東口の鼓門と「もてなしドーム」を中心とした眺め。（続く）

On July 15, my wife and I went to my hometown Kanazawa in order to visit graves of our ancestors. It was quite sunny and hot. We took our standard course to the Mt. Noda cemetery followed by visits to temples in Teramach and Nomachi. To reach the grave of my wife's ancestors in the Mt. Noda cemetery, we have to climb about 100 stone steps. Thus, it was a bit of healthful exercise. At night, we stayed in a junior-suite room on the sixth floor of Miyako Hotel Kanazawa by a particular accommodation plan with 35,000 points we had gotten of the Miyako-Plus card. The large windows of the room gave us superb views of JR Kanazawa Station and its surroundings. The sketch above shows the East entrance of the Station with its Tsuzumi (Drum) Gate and Motenashi (Hospitality) Dome. (To be continued)