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| Abare Festival is known for its wild atmosphere. On the day of
the Festival, about40 tall (some are as high as 7 m) sacred lanterns are paraded
through the streets along with 2 omikoshi portable shrines. |
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| This is one of the biggest and most lively summer festivals of
Noto where spirited men from the area around a fishing town called Ishizaki, parade
through the town streets with rallying shouting, carrying the Hoto (votive lanterns)
on their shoulders. |
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| A boat carrying omikoshi, along with 10 other boats, decorated
with tomobata flags and 5 coloured fukinagashi wind-streamers rove inside the
bay praying for large catch. It's a lively, gorgeous festival emphasizing the
typical character of a seaside town. |
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| Seihakusai is celebrated in May and is one of the biggest festivals
of Noto. This Spring Festival is dedicated to Ootoko-nushi (Sanno) Shrine in Nanao. |
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| Wearing a Tengu (long-nosed goblin) mask and dancing to the rhythm
of the drums, a festival character called "Sarutahiko" leads the mikoshi
portable shrine procession through the streets. |
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| 10 meter tall festival lanterns called Kiriko as well as smaller
portable paper lanterns are carried through the town streets along with portable
shrines called "omikoshi". |
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| It is said that the drummers wearing ghost masks and seaweed
hair fought off the armies of Uesugi Kenshin who tried to attack the Nafune area
in 1577. |
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| This small Noto Kashima station is popularly known as Sakura-eki
or the Station of Cherry Blossoms. In spring when the Cherry Trees that stand
on both the sides of the track are in full bloom, they create a "Sakura Tunnel"
with their blossoming branches. |
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| This Park is located on a hill overlooking Nanao Bay. The site
of the Park was originally the site of a castle. Park is famous for its Sakura
trees (cherry blossoms) in Spring and Tsutsuji (Azalea) flowers in early summer. |
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| It's one of the most famous cherry blossom spots in Noto. It
has 1,500 trees of Somei-yoshi cherry blossom variety. |
