Nonoichi City

This main house came from Kanazawa in 1891.

Kita family residence

Photo by Suikotei (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Suematsu Temple Ruins

From a Hakuho-era temple site,a roof-finial shows a woman, incised.

Suematsu Haiji Ato (末松廃寺跡), a temple site from the late 7th-century Hakuho period, became a National Historic Site in 1939. A 2018 excavation found a fragment of a clay roof-finial (gato) incised with the figure of a woman, thought to date from around the 9th century. No other such incised finial is known nationwide.

1939: National Historic Site
Incised finial, c. 9th century
The only such find nationwide

02 ／ Okyozuka Site

Inside a ring of stones,a gyobutsu-sekki was found.

Okyozuka Iseki (御経塚遺跡), a Late-to-Final Jomon settlement from roughly 3,700 to 2,500 years ago, became a National Historic Site in 1977. Inside a stone-lined enclosure at the center of the plaza, excavators found a gyobutsu-sekki (御物石器), a stone implement of unknown use and character, drawing scholarly attention.

1977/3/8: National Historic Site
Settlement, c. 3,700-2,500 years ago
Gyobutsu-sekki found inside a stone ring

03 ／ Togashi Residence Site and Nunoichi Jinja

Behind two rivers as its moat,Kaga's provincial seat is thought to have stood.

The Togashi clan's hereditary residence, also called Togashi Castle, used the Kuso and Shinbei rivers as its outer moat. Togashi Takaie, the first of the clan to become shugo (military governor) of Kaga, is thought to have set up his seat of government here in 1335. Nunoichi Jinja, said to trace back to a shrine Togashi Iekuni built on the grounds, took its present name in 1914.

1335: Seat of government (thought)
Kuso and Shinbei rivers as moat
Nunoichi Jinja renamed in 1914

Living here

Ishikawa's smallest city, packed with homes.

about 60,000 people

At 13.56 square kilometers, Nonoichi is the smallest city in Ishikawa Prefecture. Its compact area, wedged between Kanazawa and Hakusan, holds houses, farmland, and the old townscape of the former Hokkoku Kaido post town.

People living here: 57,238people
Area: 13.56km²
Households: 26,200households
Rent (average for rentals): 48,506yen
Healthcare: 4 hospitals ／ 57 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —16 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

Surrounded by 2 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Nonoichi City in Japan36.519°N 136.610°E

Territory of Nonoichi City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

6.6km

金沢市, 白山市

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

Nonoichi City isthis kind of town.

01Nonoichi (野々市市), Ishikawa's smallest city, sits between Kanazawa and Hakusan. In Hommachi (本町), once the first post town on the Hokkoku Kaido out of Kanazawa castle town, stands the main house of the Kita family residence -- moved, after an 1891 fire, from a Kanazawa soy-sauce shop, and now a National Important Cultural Property.
02Suematsu Haiji Ato, a temple site built in the Hakuho period, became a National Historic Site in 1939. Excavations found a roof-finial incised with a woman holding a hossu whisk -- no other example is known.
03Okyozuka Iseki, a Late-to-Final Jomon site, became a National Historic Site in 1977; a gyobutsu-sekki stone implement was found inside a stone enclosure there. On the site where the Togashi clan once had its residence stands Nunoichi Jinja.

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

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