Location: Kanazawa
Top Things to do in Kanazawa
10 Museums in Kanazawa That You Shouldn't Miss
Kanazawa (金沢市, Kanazawa-shi) is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2018, the city had an estimated population of 466,029 in 203,271 households, and a population density of 290 persons per km². The total area of the city was 468.64 square kilometres (180.94 sq mi). It is the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture.
Restaurants in Kanazawa
1. Dolls Museum
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 122 reviews
Japan is one of the biggest doll’s possession country that the world has ever seen. In Japan, people have used various crafting methods in order to create dolls. We establish Doll’s Museum in Nishi Chaya district, Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture so that you can enjoy traditional Japanese dolls which have been loved by Japanese people for long time.
Reviewed By fkt2019
Saw this museum at Tripadvisor and we decided to pay a visit. Location is easy to find and the ladies from the museum are kins enough to welcome us with home made green tea. It is awesome to see the ko collection of dolls that the owner keeps and truly interesting to see how different provinces producing their own unique dolls. Personally like the wooden dolls from all over Japan, too bad it is not for sell. Go earlier so that u can spend more times there seeing the doll one by one.
2. D. T. Suzuki Museum
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4.5 based on 440 reviews
Reviewed By 759chinh - Singapore, Singapore
A wonderful example of contemporary Zen architecture. On a quiet day, the spaces are perfect for contemplation. Using light, lack of light, walls, windows and long corridors, the designers created an expansive space with a small footprint.
3. Kanazawa Phonograph Museum
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4.5 based on 91 reviews
Reviewed By Emily2018_G_Scott - Sydney, Australia
Came into the phonograph museum using the day bus ticket and you will get 50yen discount, 250 yen entrance fee. It houses a wide collection of phonographs, music recorder in the older days before digital music. It is so impressive and historical, forgot that music recorder was invented by Thomas Edison, same inventor who gave us light bulb. There are a few sessions a day to showcase and explain the workings of some phonograph so try to catch that. In addition, on Sunday, they show case the oldest piano recorder in the world. On level 3, you can listen to some of the LPs in collection. I listened to Wham - Make it Big LP. Careless Whispers sounded like live. Highly recommended if you love music.
4. Kanazawa Kashi Kigata Art Museum
5. Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
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4.0 based on 166 reviews
Many national treasures are housed in this museum, including a precious 17th-century incense burner, scrolls, paintings and samurai costumes.
6. Ishikawa Prefectural History Museum
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4.0 based on 84 reviews
While adults dig into the history of the Ishikawa region, children can try on period clothes, beat drums, and try their hand at various crafts in a hands-on room inside this stately brick building, once used to stock weapons.
7. Karhu Collection
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4.0 based on 6 reviews
8. Ishikawa Prefectural Museum for Traditional Products and Crafts
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4.0 based on 105 reviews
Set aside an hour to enjoy the array of handicrafts for which Kanazawa is most well-known, including the famous Kutani pottery, dyeing and hand painting on silk, lacquerware, metalwork, gold leaf, Japanese paper and fireworks.
9. Shinise Memorial Hall
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 85 reviews
Originally a Chinese pharmacy, this 120-year-old building has remnants of the pharmacy, a tearoom and a collection of Kanazawa crafts and tools.
Reviewed By LenTukwila - Okayama, Japan
I love little grassroots-feeling museums which lack pretentious-ness and convey storytelling through various mediums and this museum is fantastic! Super cheap to visit, kind welcome, stamps and gifts, and importantly, a wide variety of exhibits which tell the story of "regular" life rather than just a segment of the rich or powerful. Learned so much about various crafts and even saw that Haiku legend Basho had tea here! The recreation of the pharmacy was charming and the various tools and books were so interesting. Also there as a guest book, lots of old maps and these trippy decorative balls. All in all, a great spontaneous stop.
