17210 ／ はくさんし
Ishikawa PrefectureEvery roof keeps its snow-clearing ladder.
Shiramine storehouse homes01 ／ Torigoe Castle Ruins
Built on a 312m hill between the Tedori River and its tributary the Dainichi, Torigoe Castle was held by Suzuki Dewa-no-kami and the mountain communities of the Hakusan foothills. From 1580 to 1582 they fought Oda forces under Shibata Katsuie, and more than 600 were killed or wounded on both sides. The main gate and others standing today were reconstructed in 1997–2000.
02 ／ Shirayamahime Shrine
Founded, tradition says, in the 7th year of Emperor Sujin, this shrine is a shikinaisha and the ichinomiya (chief shrine) of former Kaga Province. After a fire in 1480 (Bunmei 12) burned the main hall, it moved to its present site, Sannomiya-machi, Hakusan. Cedars and hinoki asunaro said to be a thousand years old line the solemn approach.
03 ／ Mikawa's Okaeri Matsuri
At Fujitsuka Shrine's spring festival, the Okaeri Matsuri, the mikoshi (portable shrine) travels 1km to an overnight lodging, then returns before dawn the next night along the "okaeri" route. The thirteen floats gather the craft of Mikawa butsudan (Buddhist altars) and are said to have begun in imitation of Kyoto Gion's yamahoko floats. The earliest record dates to 1811, and the festival became a prefectural Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 2001.
Living here
From its shore to its mountains, Hakusan rises about 2,700m in elevation, its area stretching from the mountains of Hakusan National Park through the Tedori River's fan-shaped plain to the shore at Mikawa on the Sea of Japan. Formed in 2005 when Mattō, Mikawa, Tsurugi and five other municipalities merged, its gateway is Mattō Station on the IR Ishikawa Railway.
+1% since 2015
109,450 → 110,408
197.7km² of it habitable
2024
2.7 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
6.5 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
55.5km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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