Kanazawa is an incredibly charming city on the Sea of Japan, in the western prefecture of Ishikawa. Founded in the ...

Kanazawa Station was remodelled in 2005 and is now defined by a huge glass structure known as the ‘Motenashi Dome’ (motenashi means hospitality in Japanese).

The numbers tell the story – it recorded 3.3 million more tourists in 2019 than the year before the opening of the Kanazawa Shinkansen station in 2015.

Kanazawa Station is flanked by a huge wooden gate, similar to the torii gates found at this traditional city's shrines. In Yuzawa, famous for sake, ...

Kanazawa's stunning train station. (Credit: Jenna Scatena) I’d always been fascinated by samurai, those warriors who were almost inhumanly stoic and ever willing to fall on their sword for their ...

As a final example of the ubiquitousness of gold leaf in Kanazawa, be sure to look up when on the Shinkansen platform at Kanazawa station. Even the tops of the pillars in the station are covered in ...

KANAZAWA--A newly opened cafe here has created a buzz on social media as entering the cafe feels like ... Mono.Chro Chaya stands amid an old townscape about 500 meters from Kanazawa Station.