Joint research and shared facilities
Shared facilities
The Marine Laboratory: “public hands-on seaside education”
The laboratory has a lodging facility, and hands-on educational activities in the field of seaside studies are carried out here for multiple departments of Kanazawa University. In addition, the hands-on seaside education of neighboring universities is also carried out here. Various facilities are available supporting hands-on education from the molecular level to the field in relation to seaside research.
The Botanical Garden: “A natural mountain village school in Kakuma”
The Kakuma hilly area adjoins the urban district, and is well known to the residents as a familiar mountain village from ancient times. Not only do we utilize this abundant natural environment as an educational research field for science, but we also consider this "natural mountain village school in Kakuma" as a field for studying the learning activities of the residents. Moreover, various learning program which utilize this approach have been developed and are offered.
The Low Level Radioactivity Laboratory
This laboratory is situated on a hill in Tatsunokuchi Town, located in Ishikawa Prefecture. In this laboratory, the hand-on training of Kanazawa University students and collaborative research activities with other universities and research institutes are carried out using the extremely low background radioactivity measurement system constructed in the former Ogoya Mine.
Kakumano-sato Hall, commoemorating the 50th anniversary of Kanazawa University
This is a 350 year-old large farmer house, transplanted from Shiramine village at the foot of Mt. Hakusan in 2005. This Hall is used as the hub for education and research of Kanazawa University and for environmental education and conservation activities by citizens and volunteers outside of the University.
Kanazawa University Noto school
This is a former elementary school building, donated by Suzu city in 2006, is used as the hub of various activities of Satoyama Satoumi Project in research, education and regional collaborations and as the atmospheric observation center "Noto Super Site".
China office of Kanazawa University
Japan branch of China was jointly established with Institute of Atmospheric Physics , Chinese of Academy of Sciences in April 2007. Its mission is to promote further bilateral mooperation in both research and education, by hosting research collaborations as well as meetings, fostering young researchers, and endorsing international exchange students.
Korea office of Kanazawa University
Japan branch of Korea institute of Geosciences and Mineral resources (KIGAM) is open in the Institute since 2008 under the agreement concluded in 2005. The branch has been a key station for promoting joint researches, joint meetings, etc. between Jpan and Korea since then.
