The document provides information about three locations in Japan: 1) Noto-jima Aquarium in Suzu City displays about 40,000 marine lives representing 500 species. It offers dolphin shows, sea lion shows, and a star festival event. Visitors can touch dolphins on the beach in summer. 2) Kenroku-en Garden in Kanazawa is one of Japan's three most beautiful gardens, known for its stone lanterns, bridges, and ponds. It showcases the beauty of the four seasons. 3) Kaio-maru Park in Imizu City features the Kaio-maru sailing ship, called the "Lady of the sea". It is

1. B Noto-jima Aquarium
Suzu City The aquarium displays about 40,000
marine lives representing about 500
species, most of which are caught in the
A Senmai-da Rice Fields sea around Noto peninsula. It offers a
•Wajima Urushi Lacquer Art Museum •Mitsuke Beach variety of shows such as dolphin and sea
Wajima IC •Koiji Beach lion shows, sea otter feeding shows, and
Tanabata or Star Festival event. During
Wajima City summer, you can enjoy touching a
Noto Town dolphin in the beach.
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From Seaside Landscapes to Noted Gardens
Noto Airport IC Noto Airport Open: 9:00am-5:00pm (until 4:30pm in winter)
•Soji-ji Soin Temple
Anamizu Town
A Senmai-da Rice Fields Admission: Adult ¥1320 Closed: year-end holidays The wave has cut the coastal cliff jutting into
Tel: 0767-84-1271 http://www.notoaqua.jp/ the sea to create a great natural gate which is
Anamizu IC Along with Route 249 between Wajima
6m in width, 15m in height, and 60m in
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Anamizu and Sosogi are a lot of senmai-da or
length. The rock gate is one of the symbolic
“thousands of rice fields” whose rims
Noto
sights in Noto Kongo area. You can tour to
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depict geometric patterns toward the sea.
see around Takanosu-iwa rock, Hatago-iwa
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the City of Fish
Shiroyone senmai-da is a sight to see.
rock, and Goban-jima island by a pleasure
Not
From spring to summer, the sunset over
B Noto-jima Aquarium the sea beautifully reflects on the water in
boat, which offers you an impressive view.
Noto Kongo•
the rice fields. Ganmon Togi-ushioroshi Shika-machi Hakui-gun
Ganmon Gate C Wakura Tel: 0768-23-1146 (Tourism Section, Wajima City
Ishikawa Boats Operated from April to mid-
Hot Spring November Tel: 0767-32-9341 (Commerce and
Shika Town Office) http : //www.city.wajima.ishikawa.jp/
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Nanao City Tourism Section, Shika Town Office)
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Shiro-o IC Kamiichi Town the beautiful sunset over the Sea of Japan. seasons including cherry blossoms, kakitsubata
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Uchinada Town Tsubata Chirihama-machi Hakui-shi Ishikawa Tel: 0767- irises, autumn leaves, and yuki-tsuri or branch-
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Tateyama IC Tateyama-Kurobe Kurobe
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Kanazawa- Toyama City
Kanazawa-higashi IC Morimoto IC 7:00am-6:00pm (8:00am-5:00pm in winter)
Oyabe IC
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Tonami IC Toyama Airport Travel around Toyama, Noto, and Kanazawa Admission: Adult ¥300 Open 365 days Tel: 076-
Tonami JCT 234-3800 (Kanazawa Castle and Kenroku-en
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Kanazawa
Kanazawa To Himi IC jp/siro-niwa/kenrokuen
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Gokayama Area from Himi ! H Kaio-maru Park
Kaio-maru is praised as the most
(44km) graceful sailing ship in Japan and
F Amaharashi Seaside is called “The lady of the sea”. It
Ishikawa Prefecture Hida City Quasi-National Park is moored to Kaio-maru Park
41 From Himi to Takaoka stretches the coastline through the year for exhibition
To Himi IC of white sand and green pine trees, and over and is illuminated at night. The
Shirakawa-go IC the sea soars the Tateyama mountain range. staff hoist the sails for
Approx. The name “Amaharashi” or “clearing up after demonstration 10 times a year.
Hida-Furukawa
40min. rain” comes from a legend that a group led by 8 Kaio-machi Imizu-shi Toyama <Kaio-
(57km) Shirakawa Village Minamoto Yoshitsune, a famous samurai in maru> Open: 9:30am-5:00pm Admission:
Takayama
City the 12th century, sheltered from the rain under Adult ¥400 Tel: 0766-82-5181 http://
Hakusan City www.kaiwomaru.jp/
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Fukui Prefecture 1hr. 30min. Hirugano- 1hr.10min. Governor and a poet, whose poems appear a lot in Manyo-shu,
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(97km) had stayed during his term. With the theme of “Manyo world
(123km)
in our hometown” the museum provides a permanent
Gujo City
exhibition with visual images and sound, special exhibitions, L World Heritage Gokayama Area
a garden with plants and flowers found in Manyo-shu. Gokayama area is designated as the World
Takasu IC
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1-11-11 Fushiki-Ichinomiya Takaoka-shi Toyama Open: 9:00am-6:00 Heritage site. In Taira and Aino-kura
with a Bounty of Nature
Gifu Prefecture Gero City pm (until 5:00pm in winter) Admission: Adult ¥210; Junior high school
student or below: Free of charge Closed: Tuesdays Tel: 0766-44-5511
villages are 24 gassho-dzukuri thatched-
158 roof houses and 9 houses in Kamitaira and
Shirotori IC http://www.manreki.com/
Suganuma villages. You can experience
To Himi IC 256 making washi or Japanese traditional paper,
Approx. Gero see the workplaces and tools for sericulture,
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1hr. 55min. and stay at a thatched-roof house.
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(155km) Aino-kura/Suganuma Nanto-shi Toyama Admission:
Gujo- Charged for folk museums Tel: 0763-66-2468
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(183km)
The temple of the Soto sect of Zen Buddhism Takaoka, Kojo Park or Old Castle Park featuring locally-cultivated tulips in
was built in honor of Maeda Toshinaga, the is the ruin of Takaoka castle constructed Tonami. Held from late April to early
Mino IC Seki City second lord of Kaga domain, as his family by then Lord Maeda Toshinaga. The May, the Tulip Fair festival is bustled
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To kai- temple. The somon main gate, sanmon temple stone walls, fort and moat still remain. with people. In the park you can visit
Mino-Seki JCT k anjo gate, butsuden Buddhist temple and hatto
To Himi IC The moat accounts for one third of its Tulip Shikisai-kan, a year-round tulip
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Seki IC Mino-Ota park unique in Japan. In the park cherry 1-32 Hanazono-machi Tonami-shi Toyama
2hr.40 min. In 1997 Sanmon, butsuden, and hatto were blossoms in spring, green in summer, Admission: Free of charge (Charged for the
(215km) Kakamigahara City designated as National Treasure buildings and coloured leaves in fall are beautiful. Tulip Fair festival) Open 365 days Tel: 0763-
Gifu since Horyu-ji Kofu-zo in Nara in 1967. 33-7716 (Tulip Shikisai-kan) http://www.city.
1-1 Kojo Takaoka-shi Toyama Admission:
35 Sekihon-machi Takaoka-shi Toyama Open: tonami.toyama.jp/shisetsu/park/
Gifu-Kakamigahara IC Free of charge Tel: 0766-20-1563 (Kojo Park
9:00am-4:30pm Admission: Adult ¥500 Open 365 Management Office) http://www.takaoka.or.
days Tel: 0766-22-0179 http://www.zuiryuji.jp/ jp/ (Takaoka Tourism Association)
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Ichinomiya JCT Ichinomiya IC sankyo-son or scattered-house villages ones with 220-year-old history, such as Inami ranma
Kiyosu Kusunoki and Tate-yama mountain range are fanlights and shishi-gashira or lion masks for festivals,
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majestic. Families can enjoy visiting to contemporary carvings and crafts. The arrangement
Aichi Prefecture Da Vinci Techno Museum, riding of the modern hall is modelled after Zuisen-ji
Nagoya IC unique bicycles, and so forth. temple which is associated with Inami carving. You
Nagoya-nishi IC Nagoya Kamiyashiro
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2. Spring Giant Camellia Trees at Himi
The size of over 500-year-old Oidani camellia tree is 3.53m in
circumference, the largest in Japan. It is also called “Sashimata no
tsubaki” or intergrafted camellia because the trunk is branched at the
lower part and then new branches are grafted above with each other. Marine Leisure
Summer
The flower blooms from April to early May. Nagasaka Fudo camellia
tree is 11m high and about 400 years old. It is also called “Sando-zaki
no tsubaki” or camellia in full bloom three times a year during the 7 Shimao Beach
flower season from December to April. Shimao beach was
•Oidani camellia tree: 25-min. drive (16km) from JR Himi Sta.
designated as one of
•Nagasaka Fudo camellia tree: 28-min. drive (18km) from JR Himi Sta. Japan’s top 100 beaches
in 2006. The white sand
5 Junicho-gata Riverside Park and green pines are beautiful. The
Over 1200 years ago, in the ancient beach and the campsite at the
pine tree forest attract a lot of
1 Asahi-yama Park time of Manyo, then Governor Otomo
Yakamochi who is also one of the poets visitors in summer.
This is the best observation spot in Himi: •6-min. drive (3.8km) from Himi Sta.
in Manyo-shu poetry book visited here
on your left you can see Nada-ura beach
for a pleasure cruise in Fuse Mizu-umi
and Noto peninsula, and on your right
lake which is now Junicho-gata lagoon.
Matsudae-hama beach stretches with white
sand and green pines. Beyond the sea Prickly Water Lily The park encircles the lagoon,
soars Tate-yama mountain range. The park Giant Camellia Tree Giant Camellia Tree
symbolizing the unique bridge. Water 6 Kozakai Beach C.C.Z
is also known for cherry blossoms and 2 3 lilies bloom in summer and swans fly
The long sweeping beach with a
at Oidani at Nagasaka Fudo here for winter home.
azaleas as well as a beautiful night view. (Designated as a prefectural natural (Designated as a prefectural natural park was constructed as a coastal
•5-min. drive (3km) from JR Himi Sta. community zone. You can enjoy at
•3-min. drive (1.2km) from JR Himi Sta. treasure) treasure)
the white sand beach. The cobalt
blue sea under the sunshine is
beautiful.
Festivals in Himi Fishing Beach Seining Pleasure Boat
8 Ninjya Hattori-kun Train Karakuri-dokei Robots
4 Himi Shishi-mai Museum Characters of Ninjya Hattori-kun, a popular manga
Shishi-mai or traditional lion dance created by Fujiko Fujio A from Himi are painted on
has long been generated and popular the train. You can hear announcements by
in Himi, so the city is called “shishi- Hattori-kun in the train running along Toyama Bay,
mai no sato” or the village of lion through the pine tree forest and the urban area,
dance. You can learn what Himi lion which makes your trip fun. Please contact JR-West
dance is all about through the videos Hokuriku information centre (Tel: 076-251-5655)
and demonstration of the dance, an for the timetable.
exciting display which will put you
Ritual Dance with Lion Mask in the shishi-mai festival mood.
April-May, September-October •Open: 9:00am-5:00pm
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In Himi as the village of shishi-mai •Admission: Free of charge (the dance Sekido-san Mountain
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traditional lion dance, the dances have been demonstration is held irregularly and charged)
To
•Closed: Mondays, year-end and New Year Waki
generated at as many as 120 spots, the holidays Yoshioka
unparalleled number in the country. The •Tel: 0766-72-2454
magnificent taiko-dai or drum stands and •10-min. drive (6km)
This is the autograph
9 Minato-gawa “River Walk” Area
of Mr. Fujiko Fujio A.
“hundred-foot” lion dance performed by 5 or from JR Himi Sta. The creator of us wrote
Nagasaka no Tanada Rice Field and “Manga Road” Street
• Nakanami
6 dancers are unique. At shishi-mai festivals it on the inside wall when At the centre of the urban area you can enjoy
he rode on the train! strolling around Nakano-shima bridge at which
in spring and fall, the dances continue until
•Choju-ga-taki Fall
dawn to entertain the audiences.
Odaki 18 Michi Shrine 7 karakuri-dokei robots of characters from a
popular manga Ninjya Hattori-kun created by
Nakata Fujiko Fujio A appear on the hour. Along with
•Nagasaka no O-inukusu Tree
Giant Camellia Tree at Nagasaka Fudo 3 Prince Buri (yellowtail) Ikazo (squid) Shiokaze-dori Shoten-gai shopping street now
Nagasaka called “Manga Road” stand 16 statues such as
Abuga-shima Island• characters of Ninjya Hattori-kun and
sakana-shinshi or “gentlefish” created by Mr.
Fujiko.
Ozakai Cave Ruin 17 •Karakuri-dokei operating time: for 4 min. on the hour
Isobe Shiragawa from 9:00am to 7:00pm (until 9:00pm in July and
Kozakai Beach
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•Isobe Shine Forest August) except for winter
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Kozakai •Asahi Shrine Forest Kanimaru (crab) Toby (flying fish)
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begun when geisha visited Senju-ji temple by a big drought. Farmers and the chief Venus coming from the sea
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•Moridera-jo Castle Ruin
while specially wearing a marumage hairstyle priest of Jonichi-ji temple did a ritual for a
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the once-a-year holiday to Senju Kannon happy about the rain they kept gonging, Sassaki
Himi Hot Spring Area
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Bodhisattava at the temple they came to pray almost breaking, the big temple bell. This is Kyuten-jukki Statue
of Asano Soichiro
Ta
for their happy marriage. Today, single the origin of the festival. At the temple you
Forest Floral Himi Aiyama Garden 14 •
to-
Drive-in Rest Place Kumanashi
women are chosen among the applicants for need to heave a 50kg log to strike the bell.
No
To Hakui • Kumanashi Yokawa •Yokawa-koji no Sakura Onsen or hot springs are scattered across the city,
this event and wear the marumage hairstyle, A bell-gonging contest is held in the festival Ao •Taruhime Densetsu Legend
Cherry Blossom mainly at the northern part of the coastal area.
and pray for their marriage at the festival. for brawny people to flex their muscles. •
•Place: Senju-ji temple •Place: Jonichi-ji temple Tengu-bayashi Forest Park The twenty or more ryokan and minshuku or Japanese-style
•Ao-jo Castle Ruin
Kamiyokawa hotels and inns with a hot spring bath can accommodate
Himi-kita IC about 1700 people in total.
Kakinaya
Inadzumi Toyama Bay The therapeutic benefits include the relief
Taniya of cuts, burns, chronic skin ailments,
Himi Shishi-mai Museum 4 Fire Station and chronic woman’s ailments.
•Kara-shima Island
Containing natrium which is beneficial
iver Himino-e Bridge 16
is ho- gaw a R Izumi 15 Himi Fisherman’s Wharf “Kaisen-kan” for our skin, the hot springs
City Hospital City Hall
Mio Kam Himi IC Ono Himi Fishing Port especially attract women, known as
Asahi-yama Park 1 9 Minato-gawa “River Walk” Area “The hot spring waters
and “Manga Road” Street
Tae Ginkgo Tree at Jonichi-ji Temple 10 12 Himi Tourism Association
with beautifying powers”.
•Usuga-mine Mountain Uwada Himi City Museum Himi Station
Himi Festival 1st weekend of August Gong-gong Festival July 13-14 Hinata •Information for accommodation:
Himi Tourism Association
With the slogan of “Heart to Heart with About 300 years ago, the plague raged 8 Ninjya Hattori-kun Train
JR
•Tel: 0766-74-5250
60,000 people”, the festival provides a Himi. People enshrined the divided spirit of Tokonabe Ogume Junicho-gata Riverside Park 5
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variety of events such as an opening parade the Gion god in Yasaka shrine in Kyoto as ive Police Station 13 Himi Seaside Botanical Garden
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lantern parade, shishi-mai lion dances, and warded off. Since then people have paraded Kume o- Yanaida
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fireworks display off the fishing port. through the town with the Gion god spirit M a
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2 Giant Camellia Tree at Oidani gaw
•Place: Himi-machi and Moto-machi Shoten-gai on a mikoshi or a portable shrine.
sh oji- Shimao
Koma-tsunagi-zakura Bus Shimao
shopping street, Himi Fishing Port Park •Place: Hiyoshi shrine and Hinomiya shrine
Noet
(Sometimes held in late July; contact for details to
Cherry Blossom•
Yanaida Nuno-o-yama Station
Commerce and Tourism Section, Himi City Office) Iwagase
Furezaka • 21 Ancient Tomb 19 Kamiizumi To Taka
Kamikudzuro Camellia and Fuse no Maruyama Hill oka
Shimotako
Cherry Blossom
Kitokito Flesh Festival of Fujinami Shrine Forest 20
Kamitako
Food City Himi mid-October Tea Ceremony House and Garden
The festival brings you a wide variety at Kokyu-ji Temple 11
Horita
of local specialities such as flesh fish,
vegetables, meat, and other products. Soryo Iikubo
Shops, Himi beef and fish hot pot Kurabone
sections are crowded with people.
You can feel “the food city of Himi” • Akage Odake
Craft Workshop “Kan-un”
at the festival. (ceramics, wood carvings, glass sculptures,
•Place: Himi fishing port string instruments) Tel: 0766-76-1178 Busshoji To Takaoka
Himi Taste 15 Himi Fisherman’s Wharf
“Kaisen-kan” Flesh Fish Hall
Himi Buri
Yellowtail In Kaisen-kan, or “Flesh Fish Hall”, shops directly-managed
by fisher persons sell fish caught in Himi. Kaisen seafood
Himi Honami restaurant serves you fish dishes such as Kabusu-jiru or
Rice soup with a lot of chopped fish which satisfies gourmets.
12 Himi City Museum •Facilities: Kaisen restaurant (180 seats), Himi Tenobe Udon noodle
The museum exhibits archaeological restaurant (40 seats), a fast-food section, shops dealing with fish,
and folkloristical materials in fish products, prepared fish dishes, rice and agricultural products,
accordance with the themes such as and other local specialities
“The nature and history of Himi” or •Open: 10:00am-6:00pm (Kaisen restaurant), 8:00am-6:00pm (other
“The fixed net fishing of yellowtails”. facilities; unitl 5:00pm December-February)
Through these materials, dioramas, •Closed: the beginning of the year
•Parking capacity: 200 passenger cars, 15 large vehicles
and slide shows, you can get hold of •Tel: 0766-74-7100
an image of the fish city of Himi. •URL: http://www.kaisenkan.com
•Open: 9:00am-5:00pm •3-min. drive (1.5km) from JR Himi Sta.
•Admission: Adult ¥100, Elementary / junior
high student ¥50
•Closed: Mondays, National holidays,
year-end and New Year holidays 13 Himi Seaside Botanical Garden 14 Forest Floral Himi Aiyama Garden Himi-bozu-kun
Mirin-boshi •Tel: 0766-74-8231 The garden in the hall exhibits Japanese He is a son of Umi-bozu, a
Sweet Dried Fish
Flowers of all four seasons bloom in the 6
•2-min. drive (0.7km) from JR Himi Sta. monster of the sea, and
seaside plants including Japan’s largest western-style gardens which are surrounded smiles friendlily with a rod
mangrove forest plantation. In the outside by trees. For relaxation you can walk in the and a yellowtail. He is said
Himi Udon Noodle garden plants are categorised in four areas. gardens at a hill which overlooks Toyama to bring you happiness
Alongside the beach stretches the park with Bay and Tate-yama mountain range. when you stroke his head.
tabuno-ki camphor trees and hama-giku •Open: 9:00am-5:00pm (Varies according to the
Himi Beef
chrysanthemum. season, Admission until 30 min. before closing)
•Open: 9:00am-5:00pm (until 4:30 November-February) •Open 365 days (closed during year-end and New
•Closed: Tuesdays, the following days of national Year holidays for maintenance)
holidays, year-end and New Year holidays •Admission: Adult ¥800, Elementary / junior high
student ¥400, Senior (65 years old or over) ¥700;
•Admission: Free of charge
•Tel: 0766-91-0100 Preschool child: Free of charge
Spots associated with
•5-min. drive (2.8km) from JR Himi Sta. •Tel: 0766-72-4187 Manyo poems
Himi Hatomugi •12-min. drive via Ao (8.7km) from JR Himi Sta.
Barley Tea
Fujinami shrine is known for wisterias, therefore it is the
setting for yo-kyoku or noh singing “Fuji” or wisterias. Fuse
no Maruyama hill used to be an isolated island in the Fuse no
Mizu-umi lake. Now there stands the oldest Manyo
16 Himino-e Bridge monument in the prefecture.
Located in front of Kaisen-kan or •Fujinami shrine: 10-min. drive (6km) from JR Himi Sta.
•Fuse no Maruyama hill: 8-min. drive (5km) from JR Himi Sta.
flesh fish hall, the cable-stayed
bridge is illuminated white in spring
and fall, light blue in summer, and
light yellow in winter.
•3-min. drive (1.6km) from Himi Sta.
10 Ginkgo Tree at 11 Tea Ceremony House 17 Ozakai Cave Ruin 18 Michi Shrine 19 Yanaida Nuno-o-yama
Jonichi-ji Temple and Garden at Kokyu-ji (Designated as a national historical relic site) (Designated as a prefectural historical building) Ancient Tomb
(Designated as a national natural Temple (Designated as a national historical relic site)
The sea cave is about 16m wide, 8m Michi shrine was moved here from
treasure) (Designated as a prefectural scenic beauty) high and 35m long. It is Japan’s first Sekido-zan Tempyo-ji, a temple for Discovered in 1998, the ancient tomb is the
On the grounds of Jonichi-ji The strolling-style garden was designed cave ruin to be searched. Among 6 mountain asceticism, in accordance with largest in the regions along the Sea of
temple of the Shingon sect, the by Komazo, a landscape gardener of layers of the cave human bones and the edicts ordering the Separation of Japan. The tomb is said to be built in the
big female ginkgo tree is about Kaga domain. earthenware vessels including Yayoi Shinto and Buddhism during Meiji first half of 4th century and is extremely
100-year-old with the height of ancient ware were excavated. Restoration. The shrine uses highly large comparing to other ancient tombs 20 Fujinami Shrine 21 Fuse no Maruyama
24m and 12m in circumference.
•Open: 9:00am-5:00pm
around here. Constructed at the foot of a Forest Hill
•Closed: December-March •16-min. drive (12km) from JR Himi Sta. sophisticated techniques such as
•2-min. drive (1km) from JR Himi Sta. •Tel: 0766-91-1690 kumimono structure and ogi-daruki or hill which oversees Toyama Bay, the tomb
•12-min. drive (8km) from JR Himi Sta. rafters arranged in the shape of a fan. is considered to be of a powerful village
head who created wealth by overseas trade.
•20-min. drive (14.5km) from JR Himi Sta.
Autumn All Season
•8-min. drive (5.3km) from JR Himi Sta.