Utatsuyama Park Observation Deck Miharashi-dai

This guide to the Miharashi-dai observation deck in Kanazawa's Utatsuyama Park traces a hill that ordinary residents were forbidden to set foot on for centuries under the ruling Kaga clan. It follows the moment in 1867 when the sitting lord reversed course and opened the mountain to builders and the public alike, and what filled its slopes once the old boundary fell. Stand on the open lawn where the sightline runs from the Io and Tomuro mountains to the Sea of Japan beyond the rooftops.