Noto Peninsula Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
peninsula in the island of Honshū, Japan
About Noto Peninsula
Noto is one of the most remote parts of mainland Japan. Its first and most famous chronicler wasŌtomo no Yakamochi(大伴家持), an 8th century poet and bureaucrat best known for compiling a large part of theMan'yoshu, Japan's first anthology of poems. In 745, he was appointed governor of Etchu Province (today'sToyama), and the poems he wrote during his six-year stay often lament the harshness of his remote posting far away from the splendors of the capital: To this day the west coast, battered continuously by the harsh Sea of Japan, is rugged and thinly populated by scattered fishing villages, while the more sheltered east coast around Nanao Bay houses the bulk of the population. In March 2007, Noto was hit by a strong earthquake (M6.9) that caused significant damage to the northern part of th
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