Kanazawa

Weekday departures: 162/day · Sat & holiday departures: 156/day

First / last train (weekday): 4:52 / 23:48

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (14)

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0:00 ─ 23:00

Counts are departures in the timetable data shown on our live map.

• IR Ishikawa Railway Line: Higashi-Kanazawa ⇄ Nishi Kanazawa
• Hokuriku Shinkansen: Shin-Takaoka ⇄ Komatsu

Kanazawa Station opened on 1 April 1898 as the terminus of the Japanese Government Railway Hokuriku Line when the Komatsu-Kanazawa segment came into service; the initial Western-style wooden east-exit building had been completed the previous month. It became a through station on 1 November 1898 with the Kanazawa-Takaoka extension, and joined the newly named Hokuriku Main Line in 1909. JNR's 1 April 1987 privatisation transferred it to JR West and JR Freight, and a fully elevated station structure was completed by 1991. The Hokuriku Shinkansen reached Kanazawa on 14 March 2015 - shifting the parallel local rail to IR Ishikawa Railway - and the line was extended to Tsuruga on 16 March 2024, after which Kanazawa lost all JR conventional service.

In 2011 the American travel magazine Travel & Leisure ranked Kanazawa Station's "Tsuzumi-mon" drum-gate and "Motenashi Dome" canopy sixth in its online list of the world's fourteen most beautiful stations, the only Japanese station on the list.