Shiroyone Senmaida is a terraced rice field with a beautiful landscape representing “Noto no Satoyama Satoumi” registered as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System.

“Shiroyone Senmaida rice terrace” is a terraced rice field in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Terraced rice field is a rice field on a sloping land. The landscape of 1,004 rice paddies of various sizes facing the Sea of Japan that stretch all the way down to the coast has been designated as a national scenic spot, and was registered as a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems in 2011 as a component of “Noto’s Satoyama-Satoumi.”

“Satoyama-satoumi” refers to areas and natural environments with mountains and seas that are closely connected to people’s lives, especially in farming villages and fishing villages.

<Rice planting in Shiroyone Senmaida>

Rice cultivation in Shiroyone Senmaida cannot be mechanized because each paddy is small, and it requires a lot of manpower and time, making it difficult to maintain the terraced rice paddies alone with the aging population and lack of successors in the local community. There is a “Shiroyone Senmaida Supporters System” to protect the beautiful scenery of Shiroyone Senmaida. In the owner system, members pay an annual membership fee as “Supporters,” and as “my rice fields,” experience farm work such as “tilling the rice field,” “plastering ridge,” “rice planting,” “mowing,” and “rice harvesting.” Members can receive the harvested rice.

<Sunset at Shiroyone Senmaida>

From late April to early May, when the rice fields are filled with water until rice planting, each rice field becomes the Mizukagami (the surface of water like a mirror), and the scenery of the setting sun reflected on the surface of the water is very beautiful.

<Illumination of Shiroyone Senmaida>

Every year from October to March during the agricultural off-season, Shiroyone Senmaida holds an illumination event with 25,000 LED lights. After sunset, the lights will slowly change colors to pink, green, gold, and blue every 15 minutes, and will gradually disappear after 4 hours.

Access to Shiroyone Senmaida rice terrace

[Railway]

It takes about 2 hours and 45 minutes from JR Tokyo Station to JR Kanazawa Station by Hokuriku Shinkansen. Get off at JR Kanazawa Station.

It takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes from JR Osaka Station to JR Tsuruga Station by limited express train. Transfer to the Hokuriku Shinkansen at JR Tsuruga Station and it takes about 40 minutes to JR Kanazawa Station. Get off at JR Kanazawa Station.

It takes about 2 hours and 30 minutes by limited express bus from JR Kanazawa Station to Wajima-ekimae bus stop. After getting off at Wajima-ekimae bus stop (transfer), it takes about 20 minutes from Wajima-ekimae bus stop to Shiroyone Senmaida bus stop.

[Airplane]

It takes about 1 hour from Haneda Airport to Noto Airport. * Flights run every day, twice a day.

It takes about 5 minute-walk from Noto Airport to Noto Satoyama Airport bus stop, and about 30 minutes from Noto Satoyama Airport bus stop to Wajima-ekimae bus stop. After getting off at Wajima-ekimae bus stop (transfer), it takes about 20 minutes from Wajima-ekimae bus stop to Shiroyone Senmaida bus stop.