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

Kanazawa Station is the terminus of the Hokuriku Shinkansen, a bullettrain 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 worlds most beautiful train stations. As part of the work to improve the stations environs in advance of the lines 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