Kanazawa Trip Overview
Explore the beautiful coast line of Noto Peninsula via chartered vehicle exclusively for you. The area is home to beautiful coastal scenery, quaint fishing villages, thriving agricultural traditions, and centuries-old craft cultures.
On this day trip departing from Kanazawa, leave the hustle and bustle of the city behind to wander around a unique village, stroll through historic streets, take in stunning coastlines and secluded beaches of the Noto Peninsula, and enjoy a lunch made of authentic local ingredients.
Noto’s thriving agricultural traditions and crafts offer a window into the area’s distinctive culture. The charming town of Wajima is a center of culture on the Noto Peninsula. It is best known for 500 years of lacquerware production and its lively morning market.
Your English-speaking driver will customize your fantastic and efficient Full-day tour according to your interests and requests.
Additional Info
Duration: 7 hours
Starts: Kanazawa, Japan
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
Explore the beautiful coast line of Noto Peninsula via chartered vehicle exclusively for you. The area is home to beautiful coastal scenery, quaint fishing villages, thriving agricultural traditions, and centuries-old craft cultures.
On this day trip departing from Kanazawa, leave the hustle and bustle of the city behind to wander around a unique village, stroll through historic streets, take in stunning coastlines and secluded beaches of the Noto Peninsula, and enjoy a lunch made of authentic local ingredients.
Noto’s thriving agricultural traditions and crafts offer a window into the area’s distinctive culture. The charming town of Wajima is a center of culture on the Noto Peninsula. It is best known for 500 years of lacquerware production and its lively morning market.
Your English-speaking driver will customize your fantastic and efficient Full-day tour according to your interests and requests.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Pass By: Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Hokuriku, Chubu
Your driver picks you up at your hotel or your preferred location around Kanazawa.
Pass By: Chirihama Nagisa Driveway, Chirihamamachi, Hakui 929-1344 Ishikawa Prefecture
The Chirihama Nagisa Driveway is a sandy beach on the western edge of the Noto Peninsula that is open to cars. Traffic runs in both directions on the 8-kilometer stretch that runs alongside the Sea of Japan.
Stop At: Wajima Morning Market, 1-115 Kawaimachi Honmachidori, Wajima 928-0001 Ishikawa Prefecture
Wajima City (輪島) is the largest city in the Okunoto region, which makes up the northern half of the Noto Peninsula. The city is centered around a protected harbor on the Sea of Japan coast and is most famous for its morning market and lacquerware.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Wajima Kobo Nagaya, 4-66-1 Kawai-machi, Wajima 928-0001 Ishikawa Prefecture
This is an integrated facility with studios for making the wooden bases for lacquerware, and painting on the lacquer, to make traditional Wajima lacquerware. Visitors can actually go to the studios to meet the craftspeople to learn about the charms of Wajima lacquerware. Visitors can also try their hand at painting on pictures, which they may take home as souvenirs.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: Shiroyone Semmaida, Shiroyonemachi, Wajima 928-0256 Ishikawa Prefecture
Shiroyone Senmaida (A Thousand Rice Paddies in Shiroyone) is the rice terraces located in Shiroyone town, Wajima City of Ishikawa Prefecture. The scenery of 1,004 small rice paddies on steep slopes along the seaside is splendid, and thus famous among the many other rice terraces in Japan. Shiroyone Senmaida was selected as one of “Japan’s Top 100 Terraced Rice Paddies” and nationally designated a “Special Place of Scenic Beauty”. In June 2011, it was also registered to Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS).
Duration: 30 minutes