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Kanazawa

Kanazawa (金沢) is a historic city in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. For travelers who want to see one of the best-preserved major Edo-period cities in the country, it's hard to beat. Wikivoyage

Population 462,479 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Japan

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Japan

Getting there

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Still gathering the markets around Kanazawa. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Through the year

  1. Hyakuman-goku Festival

    June

    This is the big daddy of Ishikawa festivals.

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Kanazawa); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 18 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

More train stations: Nishi-izumi 2.0 km, Kamimoroe 2.8 km, Shin Nishi Kanazawa 2.8 km, Nishi Kanazawa 2.9 km, Isobe 3.4 km, Higashi-Kanazawa 3.5 km, Oshino 3.6 km, Waridashi 4.1 km, Nonoichi 4.2 km, Nonoichi Kodaimae 4.5 km, Mitsukuchi 4.5 km, Mitsuya 5.1 km, Magae 5.4 km, Okobata 5.7 km, Nukajutakumae 6.0 km

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.