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Noto Peninsula

Peninsula on Honshū Island, Japan

Field	Value
name	Noto Peninsula
native_name	能登半島
native_name_lang	ja
image	Noto Peninsula Ishikawa Japan SRTM.jpg
image_caption	Landsat image with high-resolution data from Space Shuttle
image_map	Noto Peninsula Relief Map, SRTM-1.jpg
image_map_caption	Topographic map of Noto Peninsula
pushpin_map	Japan
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Japan
coordinates
location	Sea of Japan
country	Japan
country_admin_divisions_title	Prefecture
country_admin_divisions	Ishikawa Prefecture

The Noto Peninsula (能登半島, Noto-hantō) is a peninsula that projects north into the Sea of Japan from the coast of Ishikawa Prefecture in central Honshū, the main island of Japan. Before the Meiji era, the peninsula belonged to Noto Province. The main industries of the peninsula are agriculture, fisheries, and tourism.

Name

According to Alexander Vovin, the name is derived from Ainu ain 'cape' or ain 'big cape'. It is written with two ateji (ad hoc kanji used for an unrelated word): 能 nō 'ability' and 登 tō/to 'ascend'.

Area and spots

Three regions

The area of the Noto Peninsula is divided into three regions. ;Kuchi-Noto (Entrance of Noto):South part of the area. Hakui City, Kahoku City, Hōdatsu-shimizu Town, Shika Town ;Naka-Noto (Middle of Noto):Middle part of the area. Nanao City, Wakura Onsen Resort, Naka-Noto Town, Tatsuruhama ;Oku-Noto (Deep Noto or North Noto):North part of the area. Wajima City, Suzu City, Noto Town, Anamizu Town, Noto Island

In film

The Noto Peninsula features prominently in the Japanese film noir Zero Focus (Zero no Shoten, 1961), directed by Yoshitaro Nomura. The film features footage of the peninsula's coast, along with a dissection of the area's social distinctions. Noto Peninsula is also the setting of Hirokazu Koreeda's second film Maborosi (1995) and Shōhei Imamura's final film Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (Akai Hashi no Shita no Nurui Mizu, 2001). Suzu, the city located at the tip of the Noto Peninsula, is the setting for the 2014 film Saihate Nite.

Transportation

;JR Nanao Line: Comes from Kanazawa to Wakura Onsen Station via Unoke, Hakui, Nanao. ;Noto Railway: Small local railway from Wakura to Anamizu. ;Noto Airport: Located between Anamizu and Wajima. Air line to Tokyo International Airport. ;Noto Satoyama Kaido: Stretches from Kanazawa to Anamizu Town. ;No-etu Expressway (partly opened): Comes from Oyabe (Toyama) to Wajima via Nanao and Noto Airport. ;Suzu Road: A free elongation of the Noto Tollway, from Anamizu to Suzu. ;Route 249: National road that stretches around the Noto Peninsula.

Earthquakes

Main article: Noto earthquake

The 2007 Noto earthquake on March 25, 2007 shook the peninsula, causing one death and at least 170 injuries. Between May 2018 and June 2022 the northeastern tip of Noto experienced an earthquake swarm with over 20,000 earthquakes, including 10 with a magnitude over 4. A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck in May 2023. More than 200 died in the 2024 Noto earthquake on January 1, 2024.

Heritage designation

The Noto Peninsula was designated as a part of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in 2011.

References

(2020). "A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Western Old Japanese". Brill.
(2023). "Long-Living Earthquake Swarm and Intermittent Seismicity in the Northeastern Tip of the Noto Peninsula, Japan". Geophysical Research Letters.
Blair, Gavin. (January 1, 2024). "Japan earthquakes: 'battle against time' to find those trapped under rubble as death toll rises". The Guardian.
"World Agricultural Heritages".

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