Ishikawa Prefectural Library

The Ishikawa Prefectural Library (石川県立図書館, Ishikawa Kenritsu Toshokan) is a four-floor, amphitheater-shaped public library in Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture of Japan. Designed by the Environmental Design Institute, it has a capacity of 300,000 books, with 70,000 of them shelved cover-forward in its atrium. In 2025, the library reported a million visitors in the 2024 fiscal year, a 16% increase from its opening fiscal year, making it the most visited prefectural library in all of Japan for two years in a row.

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