Spots in Ishikawa

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HokkaidoHokkaido (60)

TohokuAomori (30)Iwate (30)Miyagi (40)Akita (30)Yamagata (30)Fukushima (30)

KantoIbaraki (30)Tochigi (30)Gunma (30)Tokyo (30)Kanagawa (15)

ChubuNiigata (30)Ishikawa (15)Yamanashi (15)Gifu (15)Shizuoka (15)

KansaiKyoto (30)Osaka (30)Hyogo (15)Nara (30)

ChugokuHiroshima (15)

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No photo yetKanazawa, Ishikawa21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, KanazawaA circular glass museum by SANAA, conceived as "a museum open to the town like a park", collecting and showing contemporary art; Leandro Erlich's "Swimming Pool" is the best-known work, and the free exchange zone has permanent works.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaD.T. Suzuki MuseumA museum on Kanazawa-born Buddhist philosopher D.T. Suzuki, designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, linking exhibition, learning and contemplation spaces by corridors around three gardens including the Water Mirror Garden.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaGold Leaf Workshop, Kanazawa KataniA gold-leaf application workshop where staff help until the end, so children and adults alike can take part; booking required.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaHigashi Chaya DistrictA district lined with traditional teahouse buildings that keeps Kanazawa's old atmosphere, with machiya cafés serving matcha and sweets and shops selling gold-leaf goods and local crafts; volunteer guides are stationed at the rest house.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaKaga Yuzen Kimono CenterA centre introducing Kaga Yuzen, one of Kanazawa's traditional crafts, with artisans' works on display, a dyeing workshop where you take home a handkerchief or tote bag you made, and Kaga Yuzen souvenirs.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaKanazawa Castle Park and Gyokusen-inmaru GardenA park on the site of the Maeda family's castle of the Kaga domain, with the Hishi Yagura turret and Gojikken Nagaya storehouse faithfully restored in 2001, and the Gyokusen-inmaru Garden of ponds and stone walls with a teahouse.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Daderot / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (resized)Kanazawa, IshikawaKenrokuen GardenOne of Japan's three great gardens and a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, a vast strolling garden built over many years by the lords of the Kaga domain, beside Kanazawa Castle; cherry blossoms, green, autumn leaves and the winter "yukitsuri" snow ropes draw visitors all year.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaMyoryu-ji (Ninja Temple)Known as the "Ninja Temple" for its tricks, such as an offertory box that becomes a pit and hidden stairs under the floorboards; built as an outpost against attack, it looks two-storey outside but has seven levels, 23 rooms and 29 staircases.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: Hirorinmasa / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Kanazawa, IshikawaNagamachi Samurai DistrictAn area designated for preserving its traditional townscape, where earthen walls still line the lanes; in winter the walls are wrapped in straw mats ("komo-gake") against snow and frost, and restaurants and cafés line the Kuratsuki canal toward Korinbo.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaNational Crafts MuseumA national museum holding over 4,000 works of ceramics, glass, lacquer, woodwork, textiles, metalwork and graphic design, housed in two relocated Meiji-era army buildings (1898 and 1909), with a reconstruction of lacquer artist Matsuda Gonroku's workshop.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
Photo: 金沢市 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.1 JP (cropped and resized)Kanazawa, IshikawaNishi Chaya DistrictOne of Kanazawa's three teahouse districts, with two-storey teahouses with fine latticework and old restaurants; at dusk geiko walk the streets and the sound of shamisen drifts from the houses.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaNomura Samurai HouseA samurai house open to the public in the Nagamachi district, where the dignified building harmonises with its garden; sliding-door paintings by Kaga domain painters and heirloom swords and armour are on view. Two stars in the Michelin Green Guide Japan (2009).Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaOmicho Market"The citizens' kitchen" of Kanazawa, an arcade of about 170 shops selling fresh fish, vegetables and fruit plus restaurants, busy with visitors eating seafood bowls and sushi from the Sea of Japan.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaOyama ShrineA shrine to Maeda Toshiie, founder of the Kaga domain, and his wife Omatsu; its gate combines Japanese, Chinese and Western styles with stained glass at the top and Japan's oldest surviving lightning rod, an Important Cultural Property, lit up after dark until 22:00.Official check: 26 Sept 2026
No photo yetKanazawa, IshikawaYuwaku OnsenA hot-spring village with 1,300 years of history about 30 minutes by car from Kanazawa Station, long loved as "Kanazawa's inner parlour", with eight inns; the Himuro-biraki, taking out snow stored since January, is held on June 30.Official check: 26 Sept 2026