Ishikawa Prefectural Library

The Ishikawa Prefectural Library (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. The same year, it surpassed 3 million total visitors ever since its opening. It has also received numerous accolades including an iF Design Award in 2024, as well as an Architectural Arts and Crafts Association of Japan Award, and a Chubu Architecture Award.

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