Noto Full Day Driving Tour (Private Car)

Energetic voices fill the avenue since early mornings, and you will find stalls lining the streets, selling fresh fish brought in from the port, fresh vegetables from the nearby farmland, traditional arts & crafts, and dry provisions, etc. With more than one thousand years of history, who would want to miss out on the famous Wajima Morning Market?

People visiting Senmaida are greeted by an amusing site with many layers of rice paddies on the steep slopes with an area of 1.2 hectares at the foot of Koushuzan Mountain. The number of these paddies goes up to 2000. These green rice paddies facing the sea create are spread almost geometrically and thus create a beautiful and bright landscape on the background of the blue sea. From Spring to Summer, the rays of evening sun setting over the sea reflect beautifully on the green paddies and make it an ideal spot for landscape photography.

The Okunoto Salt Farm Village in Suzu is the only facility in Japan to use the traditional "Agehama" Technique for salt production. As the name explains, a salt field is a field for making salt, and the field is created by spreading clay on top of a bedrock, then spread sand all over it after the clay has harden. People used the same method to produce natural salt with rich minerals about 500 years ago

Visitors can also visit Joroku-do, a hall containing a wooden statue of Shakamuni Buddha (5 meters tall, 1686); this statue was restored lately to remove all alterations that were made last centuries, and recovered now its original appearance

This beach driveway is 8 km long and has a road-width of 50 m. It's made of tightly compacted fine sand making it firm enough for a pleasant drive along the beach. The particle diameter of the ordinary beach sand granule is about 0.5 mm to 1 mm, while that of the sand on Chirihama Beach is a quarter of the ordinary size and thus very fine.