About the neighborhood
Nishi Chaya is one of the most celebrated neighborhoods in Kanazawa, Japan. Kanazawa's smaller western teahouses.
Encyclopedic content adapted from the Wikipedia article on Nishi Chaya, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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