Kaga City

Ship planks wall the shipowners' houses.

Hashidate shipowners' houses

Photo by 大黒敬一郎 (CC0)

01 ／ Katano Duck Pond and the sakaami hunt

A net-hunt for ducks,now a prefectural treasure.

Katano Duck Pond became a Ramsar wetland in 1993, a wintering ground for geese and ducks. The sakaami net-hunt, practiced here since the Edo period, was named an Ishikawa Prefecture cultural property in December 2025, along with its tools. Hunters throw rake-shaped nets upward from a hillside called a sakaba, aiming for ducks that leave at dusk and return at dawn.

June 10, 1993: designated a Ramsar wetland (10 ha)
Dec. 2, 2025: sakaami hunt named an Ishikawa cultural property
Nets thrown upward from a hillside called a sakaba

02 ／ The Kutani ware kiln site

Around 1655,a kiln rose upriver.

Img392九谷A遺跡焼土跡.jpg — Photo by おとひこ (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Near the source of the Daishoji River, at the foot of Mt. Dainichi, this kiln was built in the early Edo period under the Kaga domain's industrial policy. It is said to date from around 1655 (Meireki 1), and to have stopped firing after roughly half a century. Kiln No. 1, a stepped climbing kiln, had a firebox and 13 firing chambers, standing about 10.75 meters tall. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1979.

Oct. 23, 1979: designated a National Historic Site
Kiln No. 1: about 10.75m tall, 13 firing chambers
Said to date from 1655 (Meireki 1)

03 ／ Ukichiro Nakaya and artificial snow

On Mar. 12, 1936,a snow crystal made by hand.

Physicist Ukichiro Nakaya, born in Katayamazu Onsen, succeeded on March 12, 1936, in making the world's first artificial snow crystal at Hokkaido University's low-temperature laboratory. By varying temperature and vapor levels, he charted how crystal shapes changed -- later known as the Nakaya diagram. He is remembered for the words, "Snow is a letter sent from heaven."

July 4, 1900: born in Katayamazu Onsen
Mar. 12, 1936: made the world's first artificial snow crystal
Charted temperature and vapor against crystal shape (the Nakaya diagram)

Living here

127 towns still keep a lion-dance mask.

about 60,000 people
Shinkansen stops here

A survey begun in 2018 confirmed lion-dance masks (shishigashira) in 127 towns across Kaga. Some came by Kitamae ship from Kyushu, others by the Hokkoku highway from Kyoto, Ise, or Edo -- the routes differ from town to town. At the mouth of the Daishoji River, the forest of Kashima-no-mori in Shioya-cho has stood uncut since the Edo period.

People living here: 63,220people
Area: 305.87km²
Households: 25,261households
Rent (average for rentals): 38,493yen
Healthcare: 5 hospitals ／ 45 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-10-01 に新設合併（山中町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —30 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Kaga City in Japan36.303°N 136.315°E

to TokyoHokuriku Shinkansen170min

Travel times follow 加賀温泉郷観光公式（tabimati.net）の「アクセス」ページ（index_1_1_1.html）に載る東京からの所要時間 (checked 2026-09-25). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Kaga City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

27.4km

Ishikawa Prefecture: 小松市
Fukui Prefecture: あわら市, 坂井市, 勝山市

Kaga City isthis kind of town.

01In Hashidate, rows of former shipowners' houses still stand, their walls built with ship planks and shakudani stone. Katano Duck Pond is a Ramsar wetland, where the traditional sakaami net-hunt became a prefectural cultural property in 2025.
02Kaga City was formed in 2005 by merging with Yamanaka. In Daishoji, once the castle town of the Daishoji domain, the ruins of Daishoji Castle became a National Historic Site in 2025 -- and mountaineering writer Kyuya Fukada was born here.
03The Kutani ware kiln site in Kutani-machi, Yamanaka Onsen, is a National Historic Site said to be the birthplace of Kutani ware. Ukichiro Nakaya, born in Katayamazu Onsen, made the world's first artificial snow crystal.

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Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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