Kanazawa Station: The Hospitality Dome and Drum Gate | : Japan in Video

Kanazawa Station is the terminus of the Hokuriku Shinkansen, a bullet-train line connecting Tokyo and the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture in two and a half hours. It has been cited by Travel Leisure magazine as one of the world’s most beautiful train stations. As part of the work to improve the station’s environs in advance of the line’s opening in 2015, a “Hospitality Dome” (Motenashi Dōmu) was built to cover the area outside the east gate. Consisting of 3,019 panes of glass supported by a frame of alumi