Ishikawa Prefecture Live Cameras
Noto (Wajima)
Nanao City | Wajima City | Suzu City | Hakui City | Shika Town | Hodatsushimizu Town | Nakanoto Town | Anamizu Town | Noto Town
Kaga (Kanazawa)
Kanazawa City | Komatsu City | Kaga City | Kahoku City | Hakusan City | Nomi City | Nonoichi City | Kawakita Town | Tsubata Town | Uchinada Town
All over the prefecture
- Tedori River | Tedori River upstream live video / Kanazawa River National Highway Office
- Ishikawa Prefectural Coasts | Kanazawa / Kaga Coast, Noto coast | Live Catch! 2
- Prefectural Roads | Ishikawa Michi Information Net | Ishikawa Prefectural Government
- Prefectural Roads | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Road Condition Live Videos – National highways 8, 157, 160, 249, Hebei, Kanazawa, Kaga, etc. | Michi Navi Ishikawa
- Prefectural Rivers | Disaster Prevention Information Ishikawa – Saigawa, Tedorigawa, Kakehashiga, Nakanogawa | Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Kanazawa River National Highway Office
Ishikawa Prefecture Tourism Information
Ishikawa Prefecture of the Hokuriku region on the Japan Sea side is in contact with Toyama Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture and Fukui Prefecture. The size of the prefectural land is about 100km from east to west, about 200km from north to south, 4,815 square km and the coastline is about 580km. The prefecture is divided into Noto region of Noto Peninsula in the northern prefecture and Kaga refion in the southern prefecture, and it consists of 11 Cities, 5 Counties and 8 towns. The prefectural population is about 1.16 million people, and the population of the prefectural capital, Kanazawa City, is 460,000 people, 40% of the total population of the prefecture.
Kanazawa City flourished as the castle town of Kaga Maeda family, which yield one million koku of rice and dominated Noto Province, Kaga Province and Ecchu Province, and it is still the center of the economy in the Hokuriku region.
As the tourist destinations of the prefecture, there are the nationally designated special scenic spot “Kenrokuen” in Kanazawa City, “Kanazawa Castle Park,” “Seisonkaku” of nationally designated important cultural property, “Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art”, the country’s important traditional Monuments Preservation District “Higashi Chaya Street”, “YuYu Onsen (hot spring)”, “Wajima Asaichi (morning market)” of Wajima City, and “Shiroyone no Senmaida (one thousand paddy fields of Shiroyone)” and “Wakura Onsen” of Nanao City.
In addition, there are many traditional crafts that have been developed as regional industries and artistic cultures in various places in Ishikawa Prefecture. The 10 traditional crafts, Kaga Yuzen, Kutaniyaki, Kanazawa Buddhist altar, Kanazawa lacquerware, Kanazawa foil, Kaga embroidery, Wajimanuri, Yamanaka lacquerware, Ushikubi pongee and Nanao Buddhist altar, are designated as a national designation of traditional craft, and other six species are prefectural specified traditional crafts and 20 species are rare traditional crafts.
There are local cuisines such as “Kaburazushi (turnip sushi),” a kind of “Narezushi,” the sushi of fermented fish and vegetables, and “Jibuni,” stews of duck or chicken fillets sprinkled with flour and seasonal vegetables.
