Insight Guides Japan - Japan Travel Guide by Insight Guides

Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Japan
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2018-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Creating lacquerware in Wajima, Ishikawa.

Kanazawa City/JNTO

From Kanazawa consider an excursion out onto Noto-hanto $ [map] (Noto Peninsula), which jabs out into the Sea of Japan (East Sea) like a crooked finger. The sedate eastern coast, encircling a bay, is moderately developed for tourism. The western coast, sculpted by the vigorous winds and currents of the Sea of Japan (East Sea), is rocky and rustic. Noto’s main town, Wajima, is noted for Wajima-nuri, a type of lacquerware, which you can learn more about at the Wajima Shiki Kaikan (Wajima Lacquerware Museum; www.wajimanuri.or.jp/frame-e.htm; daily 8.30am–5pm). Wajima is also known for its morning market (asa-ichi), which can take on a tourist-focused mood at times but is still interesting to visit.

Niigata and around

Moving north along the coast, there are few highlights until Niigata Prefecture. Although the city of Niigata % [map] itself isn’t the most exciting of places, it has enough affordable hotels and restaurants, not to mention transport links, to make for a good stepping stone before exploring the rest of the prefecture or before setting off north or east into Tohoku (for more information, click here). Being snow country, Niigata Prefecture is, not surprisingly, known for its skiing. It was here, inland in the Joetsu region of southern Niigata, that Austrian Major Theodore von Lerch first introduced skiing to Japan in 1911. The most popular ski area in Niigata today, Echigo Yuzawa ^ [map], is also the most easily accessible from Tokyo – just 77 minutes on the shinkansen from Tokyo Station. The town has plenty of hotels and ryokan, most of which have their own hot springs, and is within a short bus ride from several good ski fields, including the modern and English-speaker-friendly GALA Yuzawa (season mid-Dec–early May;

http://gala.co.jp).

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