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- Dolls Museum It closes three days out of seven (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday), inside an old teahouse.
- Ganmon The waves have carved out a cave 6 m wide and 60 deep.
- Higashi Chaya Teahouse District The Shima teahouse (1820) is one of only two in Japan listed as national heritage.
- Ishizaki Lantern Festival (Ishizaki Hōtō Matsuri) Begun in 1889 to appease fires, with seven 15-metre towers in the fishermen's alleys.
- Kaga Yūzen Kaikan Unlike Kyoto yūzen, here the shading runs from the edges to the centre.
- Kanazawa Castle (park) Four different masonry styles have earned it the nickname ‘museum of stone walls’.
- Kanazawa Chūō Miashokugai Created in 1966 when an ordinance banned street stalls, with 20 eateries of 6 seats each.
- Kanazawa Station — Tsuzumi-mon and Motenashi Dome Sixth among the 14 most beautiful stations in the world (Travel+Leisure): a nō drum, 13.7 metres.
- Kazuemachi Teahouse District The third of Kanazawa's three geisha districts: one alley stays dark at midday.
- Kenroku-en Open to the public since 1874, a hundred years after the project began in 1676.
- Kutani Kiln Ruins Exhibition Hall The climbing kiln of the old Yoshidagama is still in place, a national Historic Site.
- Myōryū-ji (ninja temple) Two storeys from outside, seven inside: 23 rooms, 29 staircases, a 25-metre well.
- Natadera Wedged into caves of eroded rock, the prayer hall has earned 1 Michelin star.
- Ninja Weapon Museum One hundred and sixty items, fifty types of weapon: in the dojo inside, you throw real shuriken.
- Nomura Samurai Residence — Nagamachi district Its garden was ranked 3rd in the world by a US magazine (2003) and was awarded 2 Michelin stars (2009).
- Omicho Market ‘Kanazawa's kitchen’ for 300 years, with about 170 shops in narrow alleys.
- Oyama Shrine Its three-storey gate, with coloured glass, served as a lighthouse for ships in 1875.
- Shirayama Hime Shrine (Hakusan Hime) At the head of over 2,000 Hakusan shrines, with 800-year-old cedars along the approach.
- Shiroyone Senmaida Of the 1,004 paddies, 480 replanted in 2026: the number has doubled every year since 2024.
- Sōjiji Sōin Damaged in 2024, the temple will not be fully restored until 2035.
- Tsurugikei Gorge Ayatori Bridge (94.7 m, S-shaped) was designed by an ikebana master as a gorge-flower.
- Wajima Kōbō Nagaya (lacquer workshops) Only partly reopened since 2024; here you can try lacquer inlay for 2,000 yen.
- Yamashiro Onsen Koso-yu A bath rebuilt as it was in the Meiji era, with walls and floor in Kutani tiles.
- Yasue Gold Leaf Museum Kanazawa makes 99% of Japan's gold leaf, 1/10,000 of a mm thick.