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The Mawaki Site is located at the back of a small cove on the Noto Peninsula surrounded by hills on three sides, overlooking Toyama Bay.It is one of the largest Jōmon archaeological sites in the Hokuriku region and contains the site of a settlement which was continuously occupied over a 4000-year period from the beginning to the end of the Jōmon period.
The Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. Before the Meiji era, the peninsula belonged to Noto Province. The main industries of the peninsula are agriculture, fisheries, and tourism.
Located in the Hokuriku region on Japan’s western coast, the Noto Peninsula is renowned for its rustic beauty and rich cultural history. The Hokuriku region was struck by a magnitude-7.6 ...
The ichinomiya of Noto province, Keta Taisha is located in Hakui, and shrine legend asserts that this is the location at which Ōkuninushi landed with 300 of his folders from Izumo to subdue the inhabitants of Noto Peninsula during the reign of the demi-legendary 8th Emperor Kōgen or 10th Emperor Sujin.
Noto Province (能登国, Noto-no kuni) was a province of Japan in the area that is today the northern part of Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, including the Noto Peninsula (Noto-hantō) which is surrounded by the Sea of Japan. [1] Noto bordered on Etchū and Kaga provinces to the south, and was surrounded by the Sea of Japan to the
Ishikawa is located on the Sea of Japan coast and features most of the Noto Peninsula which forms Toyama Bay, one of the largest bays in Japan. Ishikawa Prefecture is part of the historic Hokuriku region and formerly an important populated center that contained some of the wealthiest han (domains) of the Japanese feudal era.
The Noto Kokubun-ji temple site is located on the east coast of Noto Peninsula in a paddy field about 2.5 kilometers south of Nanao city of the coast facing Nanao Bay. The name of the neighbourhood is "Kokubu", indicating that the now-vanished provincial capital of Noto Province was located in the close vicinity.
Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto Hantō) in the northern half of Ishikawa Prefecture, extends about 100 kilometers into the Sea of Japan. The peninsula is known for its coastal scenery and rural atmosphere. The Quasi-National Park covers much of the coastline, one side of which faces Toyama Bay and other side of which faces the Sea of Japan. [3]