History
Kagatsume Station opened on 10 May 1925 as a station of Asanogawa Denki Tetsudō; the line became the Asanogawa Line of Hokuriku Railroad (Hokutetsu) when Hokutetsu absorbed Asanogawa Denki Tetsudō on 1 October 1945. The station is in the Kagatsume-machi district of Kanazawa, the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture and a designated core city. The Kanazawa article notes that the city flourished in the Edo period as the castle town of Kaga Domain — known as "Kaga Hyakuman-goku" for its 1,025,000-koku stipend, the largest of any daimyō outside the Tokugawa shogunate — and that, having largely escaped large-scale Allied air raids in the Second World War, Kanazawa retains historical streetscapes such as the Higashi Chayagai and the Naga-machi samurai-residence district.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-25.
Notes
Kanazawa was designated a UNESCO Creative City in 2009 — the third in Japan after Kobe and Nagoya, and the first city in Asia in the Crafts and Folk Art category. Its own article also highlights Kenroku-en, one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan, and the Hyakumangoku Festival commemorating Maeda Toshiie's entry into Kanazawa Castle.