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
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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
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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.
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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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History Museum G H Kaio-maru Park Uozu IC Spring Area
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Oyabe City I Zuiryu-ji Temple as a shoaling beach for swimming with garden also offers the beauty of all four
Shiro-o IC Kamiichi Town the beautiful sunset over the Sea of Japan. seasons including cherry blossoms, kakitsubata
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Tsubata Town Oyabe Takaoka City Imizu City Toyama
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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Cross-land Oyabe M K Tonami Tulip Garden Tateyama Town • • Hakui City Office) 1-4 Kenroku-machi Kanazawa-shi Ishikawa Open:
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Kanazawa-higashi IC Morimoto IC 7:00am-6:00pm (8:00am-5:00pm in winter)
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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-nishi IC Management Office) http://www.pref.ishikawa.
Kanazawa
Kanazawa To Himi IC jp/siro-niwa/kenrokuen
Kenroku-en Garden E Fukumitsu Tonami City
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Your Journey
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Komatsu Airport
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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:
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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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Featuring “Manyo-shu” poetry book, this museum is near the
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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
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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
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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
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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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Zuiryu-ji Temple At the centre of the urban area of The garden is a kind of a theme park
(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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Komaki JCT Seen from the Cross-land Tower, the The hall exhibits carvings ranging from traditional
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
can see carving demonstrations and buy products.
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