Nomi City

A keyhole tomb, about 140m, on the plain.

Akitsuneyama No. 1 Tomb

01 ／ Terai Kiln and Sano Kiln (寺井窯・佐野窯)

Terai forged the path to massproduction; Sano's red-e took root.

Kutani Shoza opened the Terai kiln (寺井窯), training many successors and pioneering mass production of Kutani ware. Saida Dokai opened the Sano kiln (佐野窯), establishing fine red-e (akae) painting in Sano, Nomi. Kutani ware's founding kiln is in nearby Kaga, but these two kilns became the foundation of Nomi's own production.

Terai kiln: Kutani Shoza (1816-1883)
Sano kiln: Saida Dokai (1796-1868)
Kutani ware craft techniques: prefectural cultural property

02 ／ Hideki Matsui

Seeing the sea and Mt. Hakusanmakes him feel he's come home.

Hideki Matsui grew up in Nomi (formerly Neagari-cho) and played for the Yomiuri Giants and New York Yankees. The Hideki Matsui Baseball Museum (松井秀喜ベースボールミュージアム) stands near his childhood home. He has said that seeing the Sea of Japan and Mt. Hakusan of his hometown gives him the feeling of "coming home."

From Nomi (formerly Neagari-cho)
Played for the Giants and Yankees
Baseball museum stands near his family home

03 ／ Tatsunokuchi Onsen (辰口温泉)

A hot spring buried by floods,redug at the end of the Edo era.

Tatsunokuchi Onsen is said to be about 1,400 years old, with a legend that villagers once healed an injured horse's leg in its waters. Long buried by flooding, it is said to have been redug and revived at the end of the Edo period, in 1836 (Tenpo 7), by a man named Gensuke of Kimaru village.

Said to be about 1,400 years old
Redug and revived at the end of the Edo era (1836)
Legend of healing an injured horse

Living here

Potters in Nomi still fire Kutani ware today.

about 50,000 people

According to the city of Nomi, Kutani ware in the line of the Terai and Sano kilns is "still made by artists in the city today." At Kutani Togei Mura (九谷陶芸村, Kutani Ceramic Art Village) in the Terai district, visitors can try their hand at painting.

People living here: 48,523people
Area: 84.14km²
Households: 18,192households
Rent (average for rentals): 29,833yen
Healthcare: 3 hospitals ／ 28 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —15 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.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Nomi City in Japan36.447°N 136.554°E

Territory of Nomi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

9.2km

小松市, 白山市, 川北町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Nomi City isthis kind of town.

01Nomi was formed in 2005 when the towns of Neagari, Terai, and Tatsunokuchi merged. The Akitsuneyama No. 1 Tomb, a keyhole-shaped mound about 140m long, forms the Nomi Kofun Group national historic site together with the nearby Wadayama-Suejiyama Historic Park.
02Kutani Shoza, who opened the Terai kiln, and Saida Dokai, who opened the Sano kiln, both trained many successors from the late Edo period into the Meiji era. Every May, the Kutani Chawan Matsuri (九谷茶碗まつり) pottery festival at Kutani Togei Mura draws pottery fans from across Japan.
03Hideki Matsui, from Neagari, played for the Giants and the Yankees and has spoken of his feelings for his hometown. Tatsunokuchi Onsen is said to be about 1,400 years old, and was redug and revived at the end of the Edo period after long being buried by flooding.

See the town as it is now.

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

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