Kanazawa

Kanazawa is a historic city in , . For travelers who want to see one of the best-preserved major Edo-period cities in the country, it's hard to beat.
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  • City with 466,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of -1 metres (-3 feet)
  • …is also known as “Kanazawashi”
  • Description: capital city in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
  • Neighbors
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kenroku-en Park and Kanazawa Castle.
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Kenroku-en, located in Kanazawa, , …
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is a large, partially restored Japanese castle in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan.
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Station is a major railway station…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nonoichi and Tatemachi.
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is a city in .
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is a quarter.

Kanazawa

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Latitude
36.5616° or 36° 33′ 42″ north
Longitude
136.6569° or 136° 39′ 25″ east
UN/LOCODE
JP KNZ
Open location code
8Q8RHM64+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 303913177
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1860243
Wiki­data ID
Q191130

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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: “金泽”
  • Chinese: “金泽市”
  • 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: “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”

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