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September events

■Hassaku Festival in Yamashiro Hot Spring  
      
[DATE] September 1st. (Wednesday)
[PLACE] Yamashiro Hot Spring (Hattori Shrine) Kaga-City Ishikawa
[DETAILS] An autumn festival of Yamashiro Hot Spring, The large lion which dedicated a dance in the precincts. Then parades around many places in the town and dedicates a dance of Urayasu praying for peace in the main building of the shrine and give thanks in commemoration of staple grains abundant harvest.

Inquiry : Yamashiro Hot Spring in Kaga-City ☎0761-77-1144
email :info@yamashiro-spa.or.jp http:www.yamashiro-spa.or.jp

■Yamanaka-Bushi national contest in Japan Sea folk song festival
      
[DATE] September 5th. (Sunday)
[PLACE] Yamanaka Hot Spring in Kaga-City Ishikawa
[DETAILS]A party appears from the whole country every year as the contest the authoritative of Yamanaka-Bushi hot spring folk song which represent Hokuriku area and it's held magnificently.

Inquiry : Yamanaka hot spring tourism Association
☎0761-78-0330, Fax: 0761-78-0332
email :otazune@yamanaka-spa.or.jp

■Yamanaka-Bushi folk song music parade
      
[DATE] September 5th (Saturday)
[PLACE] Yamanaka Hot Spring Neighborhood, Kaga-shi Ishikawa
[DETAILS] Loved Yamanaka, Played Yamanaka-Bushi folk song and let it run, While parade in a shamisen player Honjo Hidetarou join by Honjo way family of other ones and local people. Please enjoy the sound of shamisen and Chinese fiddle play and accomplish at night in summer.

Inquiry : Yamanaka hot spring tourism Association
☎0761-78-0330, Fax: 0761-78-0332
email :otazune@yamanaka-spa.or.jp

■Kahoku Four Seasons Festival (Summer fiesta in Kahoku)

[DATE] July 31st (Saturday)~August 1st (Sunday)
[PLACE] Kahoku-shi, (Shirao, Sotohisumi Beach, Oomigawa Floodplain, Unoke baseball field.
[DETAILS] To plan for the water quality conservation and the improvement by which it's for a branch and lakes and marshes, the exhibition and the keynote speech, etc. for inhabitant of a prefecture to understand necessity in a living effluent treatment facility are held.

Inquiry :Komatsu-shi environment promotion division
☎0761-24-8067 FAX: 0761-23-6403
email :kankyoka@city.komatsu.lg.jp

■10th Anniversary Yosakoi Soran Japan Sea in Noto

[DATE] September 4th (Saturday)
[PLACE] La Porte Suzu, Suzu-shi, Ishikawa
[DETAILS] The 10th anniversary YOSAKOI Soran Sea of Japan Noto were held by a schedule for 2 days on September 5th from September 4th. About 700 people developed 16 teams of performance full of lively motion beauty at Laporte in Suzu-shi as the event site in the first day, and the place was wrapped by heat in dance performance by all party of full participation. About 800 people moved a place to the Nanao-shi Nanao Marine park on September 5th, and showed 20 teams of splendid performance full of rhythmic sense.

Inquiry : YOSAKOI Soran Sea of Japan Noto branch
☎0767-28-5880 FAX :0767-28-591

Photograph: "ASUTERASU" Houdatsushimizu-cho

■Kawashima Festival

[DATE] September 11th, (Saturday)
[PLACE] Hakusan Shrine Anamizu-Machi, Houshigun
[DETAILS]  Kawashima Kiriko festival is a largest scale by an annual festival in autumn in Anamizu-machi zHakusan Jinja (old shrine compared with Miasanahiko). The form that 7 sets and luxurious float 7 set portable shrines parade a town is highlights, Chirico who lowered a big paper-covered lamp from Omachi to Kawashima main street. A downtown bustles with many visitors.

Inquiry : Anamizu Town Hall, Hoshi-Gun Ishikawa
☎0768-52-0300 FAX:0768-52-0395
email :anamizu@town.anamizu.lg.jp

■Hodatsu Tanabata Kiriko Festival (Hodatsu Tanabata Kiriko Matsuri)

[DATE] August 7th (Saturday)
[PLACE] Ukaimitsuke beach area, Hodatsu-machi, Suzu-shi, Ishikawa
[DETAILS]  Assemble and carrying out by each district about 14m in height, large-sized Kiriko, about 2tons in weight. This is the Kiriko of the maximum grade in Noto. There are tendency to move on days to Saturday and Sunday , but here does not change holding on August 7 from  the situation with "the Tanabata Festival".
As for the festival to the end, Kiriko enters to the sea and dances boisterously among the sea and turns around " a torchlight" which I installed, and fireworks are launched in the background.
While a gong and a drum is rung, of 14m carried on their shoulder by about 100 youths Kiriko aims at the torch of the offing very much, and is a heroic festival to dance boisterously in the whole sea.

Inquiry : Nanao Tourism Association
☎0767-53-8424
email :kankou@city.nanao.lg.jp

■Teraya Kiriko Festival

[DATE] September 11th (Saturday)
[PLACE] Tedori river ground, Kawakita-machi, Nomi-gun, Ishikawa
[DETAILS]  The Tedori fire festival (Kawakita Festival) has been begun 1,986 (Showa 61 year). "Event of   drum performance to drive away crop-eating insects", "bonfire" and "Tedori kou ryu” hand drum" are shown at the specially-installed stage which provided at ground in Tedori-river field, with the bonfire which scorches a night sky in summer in red in the background.
The fireworks event with which a climax of a festival is decorated is composition, and 20,000 lift-offs are the largest scale in the Hokuriku area. A night sky is dyed by colored very much by a continuous lift-off of 5 sets of lift-off and star mine and scramble star mine (slanting strike) etc. from number 4 to number 20.

Inquiry : Nanao Tourism Association
☎0767-53-8424
email : kankou@city.nanao.lg.jp

Four Spas Kaga Expo : June 1st(Fri.)-September 30th(Sat.)

Kaga Four Spas are located in the middle of three prefectures of hokuriku region, Toyama Ishikawa Fukui prefectures named Hokurik 3(San) ken, Ishikawa prefecture known for Noto peninsula projecting into the Japan Sea, and Hyakumangoku castle town Kanazawa, Kaga Four Spas are about 40km south from there, from metropolitan area Haneda airport flight to Komatsu Just about one hour, from Kansai area 2 hours and 20 minutes by JR (Japan Railway), Year 2015 Hokuriku Shinkansen scheduled to open (Nagano - Kanazawa) resulting in about 2 hours and 30 minutes between Tokyo to Kanazawa. We look forward to the opening.

One of the three famous mountains in Japan “sacred Mt. Hakusan” has beautiful view. Mt. Fuji in Suruga, Mt. Tateyama in Etchu, and Mt. Hakusan in Kaga referred to herein as the three famous mountains in Japan. Mt. Hakusan is located on boarder of four prefectures, Ishikawa, Fukui, Toyama and Gifu.

Kaga Four Spas are in south Kaga area with that peaks can expect a beautiful figure of a mountain like a folded screen. The people of the south Kaga revere for sacred Mt. Hakusan, they love the rich native place in gratitude to the grace with live proudly.

Each is unique, "Kaga Four Spas" grown by the grace of sacred Mt. Hakusan, Awazu, Katayamazu, Yamashiro, Yamanaka four hot springs ground in the small range of about a radius of 8 kilos

Awazu Onsen...like miniature garden surrounded by foothills mountain village.
Katayamazu Onsen...Developed into the shore of the Shibayama Lagoon.
Yamashiro Onsen...Overlooking country spreads out of the rolling hills.
Yamanaka Onsen…Open in the ravine (Kakusenkei) of the among the mountain.
Locations are different, even effects are "Four spas Four recuperates"

Japanese onsen culture has enshrined Yakushi Buddha. In the background where hot spring continued springing out said "Yumori temple" may exist. Four spas each have the "Yumori temple" Awazu Onsen is the "Daiouji Temple", Katayamazu Onsen is the "Aizenji Temple" Yamashiro Onsen is the " Yakuouin Onsenji Temple" Yamanaka Onsen is the "Iōji Temple". Since ancient times, has been revered as the Buddha of medicine, "Yakushi Nyorai" are both enshrined. Good for hot spring cure, good for fulfillment of a wish, an old Japanese ran the hot spring culture in the past, Kaga Four Spas are still rooted.

Inquiry : Kaga Hot Spring Village Council　email : info@kaga410.com

Home Town NOTO Expo.
Summer: July2nd (Friday) 〜 October 2nd (Saturday) 2010
Winter: January 9th (Sunday) 〜 March 6th(Sunday) 2011

The exhibition is held in which many utilize local resources areas in the long history of Noto, Noto region (four cities, five towns) and the entire venue. Therefore　not any special pavilions.

If we emphasize it and say, local festivals and events, and rich coastline on three sides surrounded by water, abundant seafood, the traditional craft work represent by Wajima lacquer ware, and country's leading Wakura Onsen hot springs, in addition, more than anything "Faith Guests" to entertain the people of Noto travelers called "hospitality", such as the Pavilion and the entire region attractive Noto with every single resource.

Noto area is few areas where nature still stays in our country which economic growth goes ahead through drastically after the war, and manners and customs stay, and the heart of the person stays. Absolutely this area is appropriate home town in Japan.

Noto in these areas, as baby boomers the driving force behind today's dramatic economic development, and the family layer of the generation to take Japanese development in the future, and beside casual everyday divergent fatigue, tomorrow revitalize, to heal the mind and body as well as such people are apt to forgetful it "home town" to remind.

Inquiry : ｢Hot Ishikawa」Tourism campaign executive committee (Ishikawa prefecture tourism promotion division）
Telephone：076-225-1538　Fax：076-225-1540 （Monday to Friday 9a.m. to 5p.m.）
email : info@hot-ishikawa.jp

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