Shika Onsen Ishikawa

Shika, on the western Noto Peninsula coast in Ishikawa Prefecture, is known as the site of the Shika Nuclear Power Plant set against the dramatic Sea of Japan coastal landscape, as well as the traditional farming and fishing communities of the central western Noto whose satoyama and satoumi practices form part of the UNESCO agricultural heritage landscape designation. Shika Onsen Ishikawa draws on chloride-rich coastal thermal waters from the marine geology of the western Noto coastline, offering warming maritime baths in a community that balances the coexistence of modern energy infrastructure with the living traditional agricultural and fishing culture that defines the Noto Peninsula's UNESCO heritage designation. The Chirihama Driveway beach where vehicles can legally drive along the firm sand of the Sea of Japan shore, the Oyabe Shrine of the Noto traditional religion, and the fresh Noto Peninsula winter crab and yellowtail fishing culture of the western coast create a distinctive and varied spa destination in central western Ishikawa Prefecture.