Komatsu City

Its main hall stands inside a rock cave.

Natadera

Photo by 663highland (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Hikiyama Children's Kabuki

Eight districts, two each year --children perform kabuki on floats.

Komatsu's Otabi Matsuri (お旅まつり) is the spring festival of Ubashi Shrine (莵橋神社) and Motoori-Hiyoshi Shrine (本折日吉神社). Its floats (hikiyama) were built in 1766, modeled on those of Nagahama. The 8 surviving floats are a Komatsu-designated property, and the float festival is an Ishikawa Prefecture-designated intangible folk property. Two of the eight districts perform children's kabuki each year, in what is called one of Japan's three great children's kabuki traditions.

1766: floats built, modeled on Nagahama's
8 floats survive (city-designated property)
Float festival: prefecture-designated intangible property

02 ／ Komatsu Castle Ruins

A castle ringed by marsh --known as the "floating castle."

In 1639 the shogunate allowed Maeda Toshitsune (前田利常), third lord of the Kaga domain, to make Komatsu Castle his retirement residence; he entered it the following year. Surrounded by the Kaji River in marshland, it was called Komatsu Ukishiro (小松浮城), the "floating castle." Toshitsune also built Komatsu Tenmangu (小松天満宮) to guard the castle. He lived there until his death in 1658; today only the stone base of the main tower remains.

1639: shogunate approves a retirement castle
Ringed by marsh -- the "floating castle"
Tower-base stonework (city historic site)

03 ／ Ataka Sumiyoshi Shrine

Said to be Japan's only shrinefor overcoming life's hardships.

Ataka Sumiyoshi Shrine (安宅住吉神社) traces its founding to 782 and moved to its present site in 1647. Its grounds recall the legend of Yoshitsune, fleeing his brother Yoritomo and shielded by the warrior-monk Benkei, while the barrier guard Togashi let them pass, knowing who they were. The shrine calls itself Japan's only guardian deity for overcoming life's hardships, and it draws worshippers from across the country.

Founded 782, by tradition
Moved to its present site in 1647
Called Japan's only guardian deity for overcoming hardship (city)

Living here

Paddlers cross a lake mirroring Hakusan.

about 110,000 people
Shinkansen stops here

Kibagata (木場潟) is a natural lagoon covering 49.1 hectares; the foundation that manages the park calls it the prefecture's only natural lagoon park. Designated a national training-center base for canoe sprint, it reflects Mt. Hakusan (白山) on its surface.

People living here: 106,216people
Area: 371.05km²
Households: 41,312households
Rent (average for rentals): 48,305yen
Healthcare: 9 hospitals ／ 67 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —33 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.

Komatsu City in Japan36.408°N 136.446°E

to TokyoHokuriku Shinkansen159min

Travel times follow JR西日本公式「JRおでかけネット」区間時刻表『北陸新幹線（東京〜高崎〜金沢〜敦賀）下り』（timetable.jr-odekake.net/line-timetable/2829）を、ブラウザで開いて表組みをそのまま読み取った。東京→小松に定期で直通する便を全部拾うと、かがやき3501号（06:16→08:56・160分）、はくたか561号〜569号（187〜189分）、**かがやき3517号（20:00発→22:39着・159分）**があり、3517号がいちばん速い定期便 (checked 2026-09-26). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Territory of Komatsu City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

33.0km

Ishikawa Prefecture: 加賀市, 白山市, 能美市
Fukui Prefecture: 勝山市

Komatsu City isthis kind of town.

01Komatsu is the hub city of southern Kaga (南加賀), Ishikawa. Natadera (那谷寺) is said to have been founded in 717 by the monk Taicho (泰澄); its "Kigan Yusenkyo" (奇岩遊仙境) rock garden gained a further national scenic-site designation in 2014, as part of the "Scenic Sites of Oku no Hosomichi."
02At the Otabi Matsuri (お旅まつり), the spring festival of Ubashi and Motoori-Hiyoshi shrines, two of eight districts take turns performing children's kabuki on decorated floats each year. Kaga lord Maeda Toshitsune made Komatsu Castle his retirement seat; ringed by marsh, it was called Komatsu Ukishiro (小松浮城), the "floating castle."
03In Ataka, Ataka Sumiyoshi Shrine (安宅住吉神社) keeps the legend of Yoshitsune and Benkei, and calls itself Japan's only guardian deity for overcoming hardship. Hanasaka stone (花坂陶石), said to have been found in the late Edo period, is still quarried in Hanasaka for Kutani-ware clay.

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Komatsu City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗