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Ishikawa

From cultural Kanazawa to coastal Noto

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Kenrokuen Garden (Photo: Michael Mighty / JT)

Top Attractions in Ishikawa

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Ishikawa Top 10

  1. Ishikawa on BBC's 2026 Best Places to Travel List
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    Ishikawa on BBC's 2026 Best Places to Travel List

    Kanazawa
  2. Yukidaruma Snowman Festival: Kuwajima
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    Yukidaruma Snowman Festival: Kuwajima

    Culture
  3. Kanazawa Loop Bus
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    Kanazawa Loop Bus

    Kanazawa
  4. Gold Leaf Ice Cream at Hakuichi's
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    Gold Leaf Ice Cream at Hakuichi's

    Kanazawa
  5. Post-quake Support for Noto
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    Post-quake Support for Noto

    Culture
  6. Kids' Paradise in Kanazawa
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    Kids' Paradise in Kanazawa

    Kanazawa
  7. Tsurugi Horai Festival
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    Tsurugi Horai Festival

    Culture
  8. Old-Time Farm Life: Shunran-no-Sato
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    Old-Time Farm Life: Shunran-no-Sato

    Activities
  9. Discover Kanazawa: A Golden Journey
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    Discover Kanazawa: A Golden Journey

    Kanazawa
  10. Kanazawa Handmade Marche
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    Kanazawa Handmade Marche

    Kanazawa

Upcoming Ishikawa Events

Myo-oji Temple Setsubun Ceremony 2026

Myo-oji Temple Setsubun Ceremony 2026

Tuesday - Feb 3rd

At the start of spring according to the traditional calendar, Myo-oji Temple in Kaga City hosts a Setsubun ceremony focused on warding..

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Where to eat in Ishikawa

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Places to stay in Ishikawa

Forza Hotel, Kanazawa
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Forza Hotel, Kanazawa

Peter Sidell

In Kanazawa in Japan's Ishikawa prefecture, Forza Hotel is an elegant, comfortable but reasonably priced hotel, well located..

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Onomi Village
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Onomi Village

Nathan Eden

Located in Nanao, Onomi Village provides a rural getaway where visitors can experience life in a small Japanese village.

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Latest Ishikawa Reports

Hakusan Folk Museum
Culture

Hakusan Folk Museum

Susan May

For the past several hundred years, people in the foothills of Mt. Hakusan have lived off the land, deep in the mountains. This..

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About Ishikawa

Okinawa Nagasaki Fukuoka Saga Kumamoto Kagoshima Miyazaki Oita Ehime Kochi Tokushima Kagawa Yamaguchi Hiroshima Okayama Tottori Shimane Hyogo Kyoto Osaka Wakayama Nara Shiga Mie Fukui Ishikawa Toyama Gifu Aichi Nagano Shizuoka Niigata Yamanashi Kanagawa Tokyo Saitama Gunma Tochigi Chiba Ibaraki Fukushima Miyagi Yamagata Iwate Akita Aomori Hokkaido
Region Chubu
Island Honshu
Capital Visiting Kanazawa
Population 1,169,788
Area 4,186.15 km²

The opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen route between Nagano and Kanazawa, Ishikawa’s capital, in March 2015 has skyrocketed Ishikawa Prefecture (石川県, Ishikawa-ken) up the list of popular Japanese tourist destinations; now, Kanazawa can be reached in just under two and a half hours from Tokyo by bullet train.

This means that the breathtaking Kenroku-en is more easily accessible, as is Myoryu-ji (also known as the Ninja Temple).

The view of the Senmaida (1000 Rice Fields) adjacent to the Sea of Japan is absolutely fabulous, while Ishikawa is also home to Mount Maru (one of the Three Holy Mountains of Japan), delicious seafood, and relaxing hot springs, as well as many ski slopes in the winter.

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