Kanazawa
Kanazawa 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Kenrokuen Park and Kanazawa Castle.
Kenrokuen Park
Park
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Kenroku-en, located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, is a strolling style garden constructed during the Edo period by the Maeda clan. Along with Kairaku-en and Kōraku-en, Kenroku-en is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan and is noted for its beauty across all seasons, particularly in winter.
Kanazawa Castle
Castle
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Kanazawa Castle is a large, partially restored Japanese castle in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. It is located adjacent to the celebrated Kenroku-en Garden, which once formed the castle's private outer garden.
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Museum
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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa is a museum of contemporary art located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. The museum was designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the architectural office SANAA in 2004.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nonoichi.
Nonoichi
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Nonoichi is a city in Ishikawa. It is to the south of Kanazawa and boasts several traditional cultures which have developed since ancient times. It is facing a rapid increase in population, and the town is making efforts to improve the quality of life for its residents.
Kanazawa
- Categories: core city of Japan, prefectural capital of Japan, big city, jōkamachi, city for international conferences and tourism, and locality
- Location: Ishikawa, Chubu, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.5616° or 36° 33′ 42″ northLongitude
136.6569° or 136° 39′ 25″ eastPopulation
466,000Elevation
-1 metres (-3 feet)United Nations Location Code
JP KNZOpen location code
8Q8RHM64+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 303913177OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kanazawa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانازاوا، إيشيكاوا”
- Arabic: “كانازاوا”
- Aragonese: “Kanazawa”
- Armenian: “Կանաձավա”
- Asturian: “Kanazawa”
- Azerbaijani: “Kanazava”
- Balinese: “Kanazawa, Ishikawa”
- Bashkir: “Канадзава”
- Basque: “Kanazawa”
- Belarusian: “Канадзава”
- Bengali: “কানাজাওয়া”
- Bengali: “কানাযাওয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Канадзава”
- Burmese: “ကာနာဇာဝါ”
- Catalan: “Kanazawa”
- Cebuano: “Kanazawa-shi (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Kanazawa-shi (kapital sa prepektura)”
- Cebuano: “Kanazawa-shi”
- Chechen: “Канадзава”
- Chinese: “Kanazawa-chhī”
- Chinese: “金泽”
- Chinese: “金泽市”
- Chinese: “金澤”
- Chinese: “金澤區”
- Chinese: “金澤市”
- Czech: “Kanazawa”
- Danish: “Kanazawa”
- Dutch: “Kanazawa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانازاوا, ايشيكاوا”
- Esperanto: “Kanazaŭa”
- Esperanto: “Kanazavo”
- Esperanto: “Kanazawa-si”
- Estonian: “Kanazawa”
- Finnish: “Kanazawa”
- French: “Kanazawa”
- Galician: “Kanazawa”
- German: “Kanasawa”
- German: “Kanazawa”
- Greek: “Καναζάβα”
- Gujarati: “કાનઝાવા”
- Hebrew: “קנאזווה”
- Hindi: “कानाज़ावा”
- Hungarian: “Kanazava”
- Indonesian: “Kanazawa, Ishikawa”
- Indonesian: “Kanazawa”
- Irish: “Kanazawa”
- Italian: “Kanazawa”
- Japanese: “Kanazawa-shi”
- Japanese: “かなざわ”
- Japanese: “カナザワ”
- Japanese: “かなざわし”
- Japanese: “カナザワシ”
- Japanese: “加賀百万石の城下町”
- Japanese: “金沢”
- Japanese: “金沢区”
- Japanese: “金沢市”
- Kannada: “ಕನಜಾವಾ”
- Kirghiz: “Канадзава”
- Korean: “가나자와 시”
- Korean: “가나자와”
- Korean: “가나자와시”
- Korean: “카나자와 시”
- Korean: “카나자와시”
- Latin: “Canasava”
- Latin: “Kanazawa”
- Latvian: “Kanadzava”
- Literary Chinese: “金澤市”
- Lithuanian: “Kanadzava”
- Luxembourgish: “Kanazawa”
- Malagasy: “Kanazawa”
- Malay: “Kanazawa, Ishikawa”
- Malay: “Kanazawa”
- Malayalam: “കനസാവ”
- Marathi: “कानाझावा”
- Mazanderani: “کانازاوا، ایشیکاوا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kanazawa-chhī”
- Moksha: “Канадзава”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanazawa”
- Norwegian: “Kanazawa”
- Ossetian: “Канадзавæ”
- Persian: “کانازاوا، ایشیکاوا”
- Persian: “کانازاوا”
- Polish: “Kanazawa”
- Portuguese: “Kanazawa”
- Romanian: “Kanazawa”
- Russian: “Канадзава”
- Sardinian: “Kanazawa”
- Scots: “Kanazawa”
- Serbian: “Kanazava”
- Serbian: “Каназава”
- Serbian: “金沢市”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kanadzava”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kanazava”
- Sinhala: “කනසවා”
- Slovak: “Kanazawa”
- Slovenian: “Kanazava”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانازاوا، ایشیکاوا”
- Spanish: “Kanazawa, Ishikawa”
- Spanish: “Kanazawa”
- Sundanese: “Kanazawa, Ishikawa”
- Sundanese: “Kanazawa”
- Swahili: “Kanazawa, Ishikawa”
- Swahili: “Kanazawa”
- Swedish: “Kanazawa”
- Tagalog: “Kanasawa”
- Tagalog: “Kanazawa”
- Tajik: “Kanazaua”
- Tajik: “Каназауа”
- Tamil: “கனசாவா”
- Tatar: “Канадзава”
- Telugu: “కణజావ”
- Thai: “คานาซาวะ”
- Tumbuka: “Kanazawa”
- Turkish: “Kanazawa”
- Ukrainian: “Канадзава”
- Urdu: “کانازاوا، اشیکاوا”
- Uzbek: “Kanadzava”
- Venetian: “Kanazawa”
- Vietnamese: “Kanazawa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kanazawa”
- Welsh: “Kanazawa”
- Wu Chinese: “金泽市”
- Yue Chinese: “金澤”
- “Kanazawa”
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