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1 minute walk from JR Kanazawa Station Kenrokuen exit (East exit)

ISHIKAWA ONGAKUDOThe Ishikawa Orchestra Foundation
20-1 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa, 920-0856, Japan
Tel : +81 76 232 8111

Fax : +81 76 232 8101

https://ongakudo.jp/e_home

E-mail : hall@oek.jp

QROrchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (OEK)

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Tel : +81 76 232 0171

Fax : +81 76 232 8101

https://www.oek.jp/en

E-mail : office@oek.jp

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December, 2023

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Overview of Ishikawa Ongakudo●Address
20-1 Showa-machi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa●Main EntranceBuilding Overview
Site Area: 6,904m²
Structure: Steel-reinforced concrete
Scale: Five above-ground floors, two basement floors
Building Footprint: Approximately 6,160m²
Total Floor Area: Approximately 27,805m²
Architectural Design: Ashihara Architect & Associates
Acoustic Design: Nagata Acoustics

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Number of Seats
Concert Hall:1,560 seats (including eight wheelchair-accessible seats)

Hogaku Hall EntranceA

Concert Hall Entrance

Hogaku Hall:727 seats, or 691 when hanamichi walkway is in use 		(including five wheelchair-accessible seats)

CKoryu Hall:
300 seats (floor seating)●	Seven music practice rooms, Hogaku practice room,
Japanese-style room, Café, Cloak room, Music library,
Information desk/Ticket box office, Rest corner, Parking area,
Other rooms related to the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa

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Ishikawa Ongakudo:
Bringing Music Culture to the Future

Concert Hall
3F Seats

Ishikawa Ongakudo serves a venue to allow both Japan’s and Europe’s many centuries ofmusical tradition to transcend existing boundaries, for innovative new encounters. The
prefecture of Ishikawa boasts its own history of arts and culture, with a tradition of hogaku,or classical Japanese music, that extends back to the days of the feudal Kaga Domain. Since
the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa was founded in 1988, it has served as a collaboration
between these different musical cultures. Ishikawa Ongakudo features three uniquevenues — the Concert Hall with its outstanding acoustics to serve as a home base for theOrchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, the Hogaku Hall with a variety of stage mechanisms for
traditional Japanese performing arts, and the multi-functional Koryu Hall — where themusic cultures of both East and West can meet, for cultural exchange to spark the creationof new forms of culture.

●Hogaku
Practice Dressing
RoomRoom

3FConcert Hall
2F Seats
Dressing RoomAccess

Japanese-Style Dressing
RoomRoom

Hogaku Hall
1F Seats●StageStage

Concert Hall
1F Seats

Hogaku Hall
Elevator
B2-1F(Wheelchair-accessible)▪ From the Kanto region (Tokyo): take the Hokuriku Shinkansen		 (Tokyo → Kanazawa: approx. 2 hr., 30 min. to 3 hr., 10 min.)

A Entrance

Hogaku Hall
Entrance

Main Entrance
Rest Corner
Promenade Stage Door

Information Desk &Ticket Box Office

Koryu Hall
Disaster ControlCenterDelivery Stage
Entrance DoorOfficeParking
EntranceEntrance

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Hogaku Hall

P8-11

Koryu Hall 

P12-13

Entrance
Entrance
HallKanazawa

C ⬅ Station●Practice
RoomFoyerMusic
LibraryKanazawa⬅ Station

By Car▪ From the Kanto region (Tokyo): take the Hokuriku Expressway
to Kanazawa-higashi IC, then drive 15 min.

(Kenrokuen exit)

Concert Hall
Elevator B2-2F

Practice
RoomKoryu HallP4-7▪ From the Chukyo region (Nagoya): take a Shirasagi Limited
Express (Nagoya → Kanazawa: approx. 3 hr.)

▪ From the Kansai region (Osaka): take the Hokuriku Expressway
to Kanazawa-nishi IC, then drive 15 min.

(Wheelchair-accessible)

B1
Concert Hall▪ From the Kansai region (Osaka): take a Thunderbird Limited
Express (Osaka → Kanazawa: approx. 3 hr.)Concert Hall
Entrance

CentralElevator
B2-1FB

By JR
1 minute walk from
JR Kanazawa Station Kenrokuen exit (East exit)

Concert Hall
Entrance

Dressing Room

1F

Date of Initial Opening
September 12, 2001

Hogaku Hall
2F Seats

2F

Other Facilities●By Airplane
40 minute highway bus ride from Komatsu Airport(Undergroundpassage)

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Rich, Warm Sound and Exquisite Acoustics

With its stately pipe organ, the Concert Hall makes quite an impression, and serves as aresident concert hall for Ishikawa’s own Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa. This classical music
hall’s shoe-box design ensures the finest acoustics, and the three acoustic reflectors above thestage can be adjusted to optimize the venue for any type of performance, from piano recitals
to chamber music, or even full orchestras, to deliver moving, unforgettable music experiences
through exceptional acoustics.

4Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa (OEK)
Established in 1988 by Ishikawa Prefecture andKanazawa City, with the late, world-renowned
conductor Hiroyuki Iwaki serving as the founding
music director (and permanent honorary musicdirector), this forty-person orchestra was thefirst in Japan to consist largely of performers
from around the world. Today, the orchestra uses
Ishikawa Ongakudo as their home base, and they
regularly hold performances, including with worldclass artists.

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Concert Hall Overview●

DesignShoe-box configuration

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Stage

19.5m wide × 13m deep × 20m tall

●Reverb Time

Approximately 2.0 seconds (full house)●Stage Mechanisms	Three adjustable acoustic reflectors,		

●Pipe Organbattens (four for lighting, four for scenery, two for side lighting,two for side scenery), seating area battens (one for lighting, onefor scenery), curtains (cyclorama also used for projection screen,and sound-absorbing curtain)
Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt (Germany)		organ with four keyboards, foot pedals, 69 stops, and 5,143pipes; approximately 13m wide × 12.5m tall × 3.7m deep(Pipe) Organ
Standing at the front of the Concert Hall is a (pipe)organ produced in Germany, in the Romantic style.
Its dignified styling features a folding fan motif, andthe console doors and music stand are evocativeof Kanazawa’s famous Kenrokuen Garden, withdecorations featuring Japan’s famous cherry blossoms,
as well as maple leaves, which serve as a symbol ofthe changing seasons.

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Design and Production●

Assembly●

Exterior Dimensions

12.5m tall × 3.7m deep × 13m wide●

No. of Pipes

5,143

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No. of Stops

69●Consoles●●

Number of Seats		

including eight wheelchair-accessible seats●

Dressing Rooms

Ten (20 to 51m²)●

Related Facilities	Lighting room, Sound control room, Lobby, Foyer, Cloak room,

1F Seats (2F)
704 seats(Pipe) OrganStage

1,560 (704 on 1F, 414 on 2F, 442 on 3F),

Café, Equipment for guests with hearing impairments (also usedfor simultaneous interpretation of foreign languages)

Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt (Germany)

2F Seats (3F)

Karl Schuke Berliner Orgelbauwerkstatt and Yamaha Corporation

414 seats

First Keyboard(I) : Hauptwerk
Second Keyboard (II) : Positive
Third Keyboard (III) : Schwellwerk
Fourth Keyboard (IV) : Chamadenwerk
Pedals(P) :Mechanical Key Action :  I, II, III, P
Electric Key Action : IV
Electric Stop Action

C-c4
C-c4
C-c4
C-c4
C-g1

(61 keys)(61 keys)(61 keys)(61 keys)(31 keys)

Cloak RoomFoyer

Dressing Room

Dressing Room
3F Seats (4F)
442 seats

Additional Equipments

Couple		●6Mechanical II/I. III/P. II/P. I/PElectric			 IV/III. IV/II. IV/I. IV/P. III/II. III/I				 Super (4’) III/III. III/II. III/I. III/P				 Sub (16’) III/III. III/II. III/I
Swell Box, Wind Pressure Modification, Clusters, Tremolo Function
Memory Equipments
Yamaha Memory System, Memory Card

Dressing Room

Stained Glass:
The Four Seasons of Ishikawa

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Hogaku Hall

A Beautiful Space for Traditional Performing Arts

With its vermilion-red walls, arched ceiling, and all-hinoki-cypress stage, the Hogaku Halltransports all who set foot inside it to the world of classical Japanese music. The stage
equipment includes a mawari butai revolving stage featuring twelve built-in lifts of varioussizes, and a movable hanamichi walkway through the audience, making the venue perfectfor authentic performances of kabuki, buyo dances, nagauta singing, sankyoku chambermusic, and more. This compact, intimate space allows audience members to practicallyhear the performers’ breathing, creating the sense that they could almost reach out andtouch the stage.

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Example Stage Setup with
Adjustable Acoustic Reflectors
for Classical Japanese Music(Koto Music)

Example Stage Setup withHanamichi Walkway
for Nihon Buyo Dance

Example Stage Setup
for Rakugo

Example Stage Setup with
Stage Mechanisms
for Original Performances9Hogaku Hall Overview

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Stage Mechanisms to Serve Dramatic Scenes🅓●Medium seri lift

The Hogaku Hall is equipped to serve as a venue for kabuki,
nagauta singing, buyo dances, and other traditional Japanese
performing arts. The mawari butai rotating stage features twelve
built-in lifts, and the hanamichi walkway through the audiencecan be raised and lowered, creating additional seating space for
performances that do not use the hanamichi.

Small seri lift

Large seri lift
Divided seri lift
Medium seri lift

Mawari Butai
Rotating Stage●Reverb Time

●Stage Mechanisms

Proscenium Stage: 30m wide × 15m deep × 20m sunoko height
Proscenium Opening: 16.6m wide × 6.3m tall
Approximately 1.2 seconds (full house)

Battens (nine for lighting, eighteen for scenery, twenty for curtains),
Curtains (Drop curtain, Blackout curtain, Side curtains, Draw curtains, Top masking curtain,Mid cyclorama, Leg wing curtains, Black cyclorama, Wing curtains, Rear cyclorama)
Hanamichi Walkway: Can be raised or lowered (equipped with Suppon)
Mawari Butai Rotating Stage: 7 ken (12.73m) diameter (features built-in seri lifts)	Seri Lifts: Large seri lift, Divided seri lift (six segments), Two medium seri lifts, Threesmall seri lifts
Kakoi scenery board (movable)
Adjustable acoustic reflectors●Number of Seats

727 (524 on 1F, 203 on 2F), or 691 when hanamichi walkway is in use,including five wheelchair-accessible seats●

Dressing Rooms		

Hogaku practice room (100m²)●

Related Facilities

Lighting room, Sound control room, Lobby, Foyer, Cloak room, Café,				

Nine (16 to 111m²), Japanese-style room (98m²),

1F Seats (2F)
524 seats

Stage

Right Box Seats🅒●StageLeft Box Seats🅐●●

Equipment for guests with hearing impairments(also used for simultaneous interpretation of foreign language)

Hanamichi Walkway

1F Seats (2F)

Can be raised or lowered(equipped with Suppon)

488 seats(When using hanamichi walkway)

Dressing RoomB

Right Box Seats

Japanese-Style RoomStage

Hanamichi Walkway

Foyer

Left Box Seats

Cloak RoomRightLeftACD

Hogaku Practice Room

2F Seats (3F)
203 seats

Traditional Craft Techniques for a Stunning Performance Venue

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A | Japan’s first hand-painted Kaga Yuzen drop curtain.
B | 	A drop curtain featuring overlapping chrysanthemums—an auspicious flower—as well as flowers
representative of the four seasons.
C | 	A window through the wall with Kanazawa Lacquerware decorations depicting ume plum blossoms, asymbol of the city.
D | A carved transom in Yamanaka Lacquerware.

Wall Panel:
Four Seasons — Sairyu(Kutani Ware)

Hogaku Hall Entrance:
Snow, Moon, and Flowers(Kutani Ware)

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Koryu Hall Overview●Size

17.3–19.8m wide × 26m deep × 7.3– 8.4m tall●

StageCan vary by stage lift settings; 16.8m wide × 9m deep (nine segments)●

Stage Mechanisms

Battens (seven for lighting, four for scenery),●Video Screen

Large-scale LED display (screen size: 4.56m wide × 3.36m tall)●

Number of Seats

250–400 when using tiered floor lift seating (nine lifts / nine tiers)●Waiting Rooms

Two (36m² each)●Related Facilities

Lighting, Sound control room, Foyer

Stage lift (nine segments), Tiered floor lifts (nine lifts/ten tiers),
Adjustable fence partition (first basement ⇄ first floor)

Koryu Hall (Cultural Exchange Square)

A Creative Space for Cultures to MeetStage (with tiered floor lifts for raised audience seating)Large & Small Practice Rooms

All-Flat Layout

Example Stage Lift Layouts

Koryu Hall offers a creative space adjacent to Kanazawa Station’s underground plaza. The
huge adjustable fence partition can be raised or lowered to create or remove the boundary
between rooms, connecting rooms on both the first floor and the first basement for a 520 m²space. The open stage can be made accessible from the first floor, as well — the hall offers avariety of flexible options to arrange the space. The stage area features a stage lift divided intonine segments, and the floor can be set up with a tiered layout that connects the first floor
and the first basement. Enjoy the incredible freedom of options this hall offers.

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Other Facilities

Concert Hall, Hogaku Hall, and Koryu Hall

Where People and Cultures Come Together

Ishikawa Ongakudo as Convention Venue

In addition to the three main halls, Ishikawa Ongakudo also features places
where people are always welcome to drop in. The information desk andticket box office offer information about the facility, ticket sales, performance
information, and more. There are also practice rooms, each equipped with apiano, as well as the music library, with an extensive collection of videos ofmusical performances and other music-related materials to peruse.

Ishikawa Ongakudo makes the perfect venue for events of all sizes! TheConcert Hall fits 1,560, the Hogaku Hall fits 727, and the Koryu Hall fits
250 and can be used as an exhibition room. With easy access to and from
JR Kanazawa Station, Ishikawa Ongakudo can be used together with nearby
hotels (accessible via underground passage) for large events, too!

Café Concerto

Promenade

Concert Hall

Reception Desk

Information Desk & Ticket Box OfficeMusic Library (Open 10:00 to 18:00 Sat. & Sun.)

Hogaku HallKoryu Hall15