Kanazawa

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

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

Busiest hour: 7:00–8:00 (14)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026 to 7 August 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

• 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 conventional line to IR Ishikawa Railway - and was extended to Tsuruga on 16 March 2024, after which no JR conventional line of its own remained at Kanazawa, although JR West Nanao Line trains still run in over IR Ishikawa tracks.

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