Sightseeing Information | Ishikawa Ryokan and Hotel Association

From 8 a.m., some 200 open-air stalls line both sides of Asaichi-dori street, selling fresh seafood, dried fish, vegetables and folk crafts - a morning market filled with the warm, down-to-earth spirit of Oku-Noto. Traditionally both the sellers and the buyers are women, and the town's day begins with the calls of the vendors. Stall spots have been handed down for generations, from parent to child to grandchild... See more

A day-use hot spring facility with a heated pool. The reddish-brown sodium-chloride spring emerges at 50 degrees C. Besides an open-air bath built of natural stone, there are cascade baths, lying baths and six kinds of spa facilities in kurhaus style, plus a full-scale 25 m indoor pool. See more

Enjoy a relaxing time whether traveling, on business, or with family and friends. Gourmet dining and beauty treatments await after a natural hot spring bath. Convenient for day-use bathing and banquets. All rooms except the Japanese-style rooms have LAN. Hot spring bathing is free for overnight guests. See more

More than 1,000 terraced rice paddies cascade down 1.2 hectares of steep slope at the foot of Mt. Koshu. Spreading toward the sea, the green paddies form a geometric mosaic against the blue water. Each paddy averages a mere six square meters - too small for machinery, so the fields are worked by hand in the traditional way, taking several times the labor of flat land... See more

The Nishi (western) teahouse district dates back to the feudal era, and traditional restaurants and geisha houses still line this quarter. On the second floor of the Kanazawa Nishi-Chaya Museum, dedicated to the author Seijiro Shimada who grew up here, shamisen, drums and lacquered furnishings displayed in a red-ochre-walled parlor convey the refined teahouse entertainment of old... See more