Each of them conducts a variety of central banking operations, such as smooth provision of banknotes and coins, settlement of funds, treasury funds services, and research and analysis of financial institutions' business conditions and of economic and financial developments in the region. Although these operations sound unspectacular, they constitute a part of the important infrastructure that supports financial and economic activity in each region.
In fiscal 2008, the sum of receipts and payments of banknotes at the Kanazawa Branch was around 2 trillion yen – 200 million notes of 10,000 yen bill. During the last 100 years, the Kanazawa Branch has strived to maintain an uninterrupted supply of banknotes in spite of occasional difficulties such as heavy snow and major earthquakes.