Additional time availablefrom Apr.1 to Oct.30

April 1st,2017

●Buses are operating daily all year round from 8:30 to 18:30 For safety reasons, full boarded buses cannot accept any

additional passengers. Thank you for your comprehension.

●Buses may run late due to weather and traffic conditions Our drivers spend as few time as possible at each bus stop in

order to arrive on schedule at the last destination. Be sure to be at the bus stop by the listed time.

●Extension of the Canbus pass validity Please note that to convert a 1 day pass into a 2 days pass, you

will be asked an additional fee of ¥500 per adult and ¥200 per child.

Information valid as at March 2017.

■Kaga Tabimachinet inside the Kaga Onsen JR station　Tel: 0761-72-6668　Open: 8:45 to 17:30

■Canbus o�ce near the station (also on sale inside the buses)　Tel: 0761-72-7777　Open: 8:45 to 17:30

■Yamanaka Za (Yamanaka Onsen)　Tel: 0761-78-5523　Open: 8:30 to 22:00

■Yamashiro Onsen’s public bath■Kutaniyaki Art Museum■Kitamaebune Ship Museum

Canbus departs from and goes back to the JR Kaga Onsen Station, taking you to all the main sightseeing destinations around Kaga. Get on and o� whenever you want for personalized travel plans using the three available lines: the Sea Route, the Mountain Route and the Komatsu Airport Line.

Red passport (including entrance fees for 3 facilities)800¥ per person. Valid two days

Blue passport (including entrance fees for 3 facilities plus Canbus tickets)1,500¥ per person. Valid two days

・Please show this passport at the entrance・�is passport is strictly personal and cannot be shared

M10 is an additional bus serving the hot spring towns of Yamashiro and Yamanaka Onsen. S10 is an additional bus serving the hotspring town of Katayamazu Onsen. Passengers can only get on at the Kaga Onsen station. In case no passenger shows, the ridewon’t be operated. Users of S3 and S5 can continue their ride to Hashitate and Katayamazu by changing to S4 and S6 at the Kaga Fruits Land station.Transfer times: S3-S4: 11:29 　S5-S6: 13:09

Choose 3 among the 23 available facilities and get a two days valid passport at a very attractive price!

Kaga Hot Springs and Townsstrolling around passport

JR Kaga Onsenstation

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JR Kaga Onsenstation

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Kaga Loop Bus

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Kaga Medical Center

Kutani Mangetsu(ceramics workshops, national treasure exhibition)

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Yamanoshita Temples/Kutaniyaki Art Museum

Boats, Kyuya and Choryu-tei

Tsukiusagi no Sato

Yoshizaki Gobo Rennyo Shonin Memorial Hall, Echizen Kaga Kenkyo no Yakata

Takenoura-kan

Kamoike Observation Center

Kaga Fruit Land（Bus transfers available here.）

Kitamaebune Ship Owner Residence-Zorokuen

Kitamaebune Ship Museum

Hashitate Fishing Port

Amagozen Cape

Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice

Katayamazu Onsen : West Exit

Katayamazu Onsen : Yunomoto Park

Katayamazu Onsen : Soyu

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Dainichi-zakari Sake Brewery Museum

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Yamanaka Urushi-za (Yamanaka Lacquerware Traditional Industry Hall)

Yamanaka Onsen Kiku no Yu/Yamanaka-za

Banshoen-dori Street/Iroha Soan Hut

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Ancient Kutani Kiln Exhibition Center

Natadera Temple

Yunokuni no Mori

Motorcar Museum of Japan

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CANBUS timetable

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Canbus ticket (valid two days) 1,200￥Yamashiro Onsen public bath + 440￥Iroha Soan + 500￥Yunokuni no mori + 540￥ Total ＝ 2,680￥

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Hot Springs History

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Enjoy the Kaga area’s hot springs at your own pace.

Discover and experience the Kutani porcelain and the Yamanaka lacquerware, highly refined crafts deeply rooted in Kaga’s history and traditions.

Discover the rich history of Kaga through the Kitamaebune shipping route, the feudal town remains and temples of Daishoji and the tracks of Matsuo Basho in Yamanaka.

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�is striking glass building was conceived by Yoshio Taniguchi, one of Japan’s leading architects. �e two baths, one looking towards the lake and the distant mountains, the other onto the forest, are switched between genders every day.Open: 6:00 to 22:00 Café: 10:00 to 17:00 (Closed on �ursday)

Yamashiro Onsen’s public bath is a 100% pure hot spring (no cool water added). �e inside walls of either bath room display hand-painted tiles by 28 of the area’s �nest Kutani ceramic artists.Open: 6:00 to 22:00Closed on every fourth Wednesday morning.

�is amusement complex facility o�ers more than 12 kinds of baths (including a bedrock bath), body care treatments and several massage rooms. Along with Japanese and western cuisine restaurants, it also hosts a very popular indian restaurant.Open: 6:00 am to 4:00 am

100% pure hot spring waters over�ow the tubs of this little known but very tranquil public bath. An open-air bath space and a sauna are also proposed.Open: 11:40 to 21:30

Kitaoji Rosanjin, a famous multifaceted artist stayed and worked in this cozy and beautiful cottage for a few weeks around 1915, beginning to work there as a potter, a �eld he would ultimately become famous in. Preserving most of the cottage’s original lay out and its “belle époque” atmosphere, the interior also displays many examples of the artist’s work.Open: 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry at 16:30)Closed on �ursdays

�is splendid late samurai house was moved from Kanazawa to Yamanaka Onsen during the Taisho period (1912-1926). Ever since it has managed to preserve the atmosphere of the period as well as its high level of building technology at the time. �e small garden promenade o�ers an exquisite view on the nearby Korogi Bridge and the Kakusenkei gorges.Open: 8:30 to 17:00Closed from December 29th to January 3rd

Widely considered one of Japan's most original and greatly decorative porcelain styles, the Kutani porcelain has left a remarkable legacy that lives on up to these days. Along with the turmoil of history and the work of successive generations of talented artisans, the Kutani porcelain has evolved to cover a wide range of distinctive styles and approaches that can be admired in this museum.Open: 9:00 to 16:30 Closed on Mondays

�is typical Taisho period western-style building was constructed in 1918 and registered in 1991 as a “traditional building for protection”. It now hosts a collection of artworks by the famous TV personality, actor and painter Kataoka Tsurutaro.Open: 9:00 to 16:30Closed on December 31st

Located in front of the railway station, this museum permanently displays a wide range of art and craft works from renowned artists of the area. All year long, regular temporary exhibitions covering many disciplines are also dedicated to the works of amateur artists and citizens of Kaga.Open: 10:00 to 17:30Closed on Mondays, December 30th, 31st and January 1st

�is museum displays through permanent and temporary exhibitions a large collection of works that embody the rich tradition of the Kutani porcelain. Besides the main gallery lie the remains of the oldest climbing kiln from the time of the Kutani revival. Potter’s wheel and painting workshops are also available on reservation.Open: 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry at 16:30)Closed on Tuesdays, December 31st and January 1st

Surrounded by nature, this bathing complex facility proposes various types of bathing experiences such as saunas, hot water pools, whirlpool Jacuzzi baths and open-air baths. A very relaxing experience while listening to the melancholic melody of Yamanaka Bushi, the town’s traditional folk song.Open: 10:00 to 22:00 (last entry 21:30)Closed on Tuesdays

Matsuo Basho was the most famous poet of the Edo period and a master of Haiku. An untiring traveler, he roamed the roads of northern Japan at the end of his life, a journey which would give birth to a poetry masterpiece: “�e narrow road to the deep north”. �is building recalls through many documents Basho’s passage here while displaying �ne works from local Yamanaka lacquerware artists.Open: 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry at 16:30)Closed on Wednesdays

Elegantly making use of the region’s �nest crafts such as lacquerware, porcelain and stained glasses, this is one of Yamashiro Onsen’s two public hot spring baths. �e Kosoyu was rebuilt exactly the way it was during the Meiji era. Although not equipped with usual separate spaces for shower, it is still a place worth going for relaxing and soaking in a nostalgic scenery.Open: 10:00 to 22:00

�e name of Yamanaka Onsen’s public bath, Kikunoyu (chrysanthemum hot water) refers to both a haiku poem by Matsuo Basho, one of the town’s most famous visitors, and to the healing properties of the waters, as the chrysanthemum symbolizes eternity according to the Chinese folklore. Men and women’s baths are in two separate elegant buildings facing each other. �e men’s bath displays an interesting narrative illustration of the town’s history. Open: 6:45 to 22:00

Kitamaebune was a trading vessels route along the western coasts of Japan that thrived during the Edo period, when Japan was almost completely isolated from the outside world. Connecting Osaka to the northern parts of Hokkaido, this shipping route gave birth to a very distinctive culture and life-style which is narrated in this museum through a large collection of documents.Open: 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry at 16:30)

Set in a beautiful wooden house from the Meiji period, this museum is dedicated to the life and works of Kyuya Fukata (1903-1971). A native of Daishoji, writer and mountain enthusiast, Kyuya Fukata wrote a very popular book among Japanese mountain lovers and hikers; 100 famous mountains of Japan, a personal selection on criteria of grace, history and originality. Open: 9:00 to 16:30 Closed on Tuesdays

�e Kamoike pond is a wintertime stop-over place for many species of migrating birds including geese, ducks and swans, resulting in a remarkable ecosystem registered in the “Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat”. �e observation center was set up to help protecting this ecosystem by providing explanations to its visitors.Open: 9:00 to 16:30

Set inside a natural forest, this traditional style houses village proposes dozens of hands-on activities covering a wide range of local handicrafts techniques such as pottery, silk-dyeing and even making soba noodles. Many souvenir shops propose plenty of traditional arts and crafts items of Ishikawa.Open: 9:00 to 15:30

Set in a typically Japanese/western style building, the 12,000 m2 exhibition hall displays about 500 car models from di�erent countries including highlights such as Rolls Royce’s, Japanese sport cars and popular cars from Europe. �is is the biggest automobile museum in all Japan.Open: 9:00 to 16:30 Closed from December 26th to December 31st

�is museum is dedicated to the works of Ukichiro Nakaya, an experimental scientist and essayist born in Katayamazu Onsen. Specialized in glaciology, he described the process of natural snow�akes formation and developed a device for the production of arti�cial snow crystals. Besides presenting his life and work, the museum proposes various creative hands-on corners based on Nakaya’s scienti�c experiments. Open: 9:00 to 16:30 Closed on Wednesdays

�e town of Hashitate was once a port of call for the Kitamaebune vessels. Conveniently set half-way of the road connecting Osaka to Hokkaido, many shipping company owners built splendid estates in this area. Zorokuen embodies the particular architectural style of the remaining Kitamae-bune residences. Both the materials used and the collection of crafts on display give an idea of the wealthy life-style that the company owners enjoyed at that time.

�is zen temple was founded in honour of Maeda Toshiharu, the �rst of the dynasty of feudal lords who ruled the area during the Edo period (1600-1868). �e temple’s adjoining garden still hosts the gravestones for each one of them. Cherry trees in the spring and bush clovers in the fall o�er splendid sceneries to the visitors.Open: 9:00 to 17:00

Matsuo Basho stayed in this zen temple and wrote a famous haiku inspired by the willow tree in the garden. In addition to the splendid main building, the temple is also famous for its 517 small sculptures depicting “rakan”, the disciples and followers of Buddha in a detached lodge. Each one of them was carved with a thorough sense for facial physiognomy.Open: 9:00 to 17:00

Starting from 5,400￥ purchasingGet a 1,500￥ sake cup for freeOpen: 9:00 to 17:00Closed on Wednesdays and from December 29th to January 2nd

(Traditional Yamanaka lacquerware)Buy an item at any price Get a chopstick rest for freeOpen: 9:00 to 17:30

Get a 150￥ discount onHazuchio’s vegetable curry and rice (containing pork)Open: 9:00 to 17:00Closed on Wednesdays

Get a traditional Japanese rice cracker for freeOpen: 8:15 to 17:00 (Dec-Mar: 16:00)Closed on December 30th and 31st

Watch and play with rabbits Get a strap fastener for freeOpen: 9:00 to 17:00

Get a drink coaster packet for freeOpen: 9:00 to 17:00Closed on Tuesdays from December to February

Katayamazu Onsen Soyu (Public Bath) 26a→50m

Yamashiro Onsen Soyu (Public Bath)5→100m

Kaga Yumenoyu 11

Bessho Onsen 3→1.9km

Iroha Soan (Yamashiro Onsen) 4→150m Mugen-An YAMANAKA2→950m

Kutaniyaki Art Museum 14→100m Kataoka Tsurutaro Art and Craft GalleryYAMANAKA2→100m

Kaga City Art Museum 1→50mKutani Porcelain Kiln Remains 6a→100m

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Yamanaka Onsen YuyukanYAMANAKA2→1.3km Basho no Yakata (Yamanaka Onsen)

YAMANAKA2→150m

Kitamaebune Ship Museum21→100m

Fukata Kyuya Memorial Museum

Kutani Ware Shop “Bitoen” YAMANAKA1Yamanaka Urushi Za 5→50mTea House Hazuchio

12Okashijo Kagahan 16Tsukiusagi no Sato 18Kaga Fruits Land

15→300m

Kamoike Observation Center 17→50m

Traditional handicrafts village “Yunokuni no Mori” 8

Motorcar Museum of Japan 9

Nakaya Ukichiro Museum of Snow and Ice24

Zorokuen 20

Jisshoin Temple 14→500m

Zenshoji Temple 14→350m

Yamashiro Kosoyu 5→50m

Yamanaka Onsen Kikunoyu (Public Bath)YAMANAKA2