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Sightseeing Spots in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture
Wajima City in Ishikawa Prefecture is the strongest tourist destination. There are too many sightseeing spots to visit in one day. Wajima City in Ishikawa Prefecture is in the northwestern part of the Noto Peninsula. It is a popular tourist destination famous for Wajima-nuri Japanese lacquerware, Wajima Morning Market, and Shiroyone Senmaida rice terrace. The sightseeing district is roughly divided into the urban area where Wajima Port and Marine Town are located, and Monzen-machi area around Sojiji Temple. In the urban area, there are many sights to see such as the Wajima Museum of Urushi Art, the Wajima Morning Market, the Wajima Kiriko Art Museum, and the Go Nagai Wonderland […]
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Shiroyone Senmaida rice terrace
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 […]