Shika Town

Waves carved a sea cave, 60 meters deep.

Ganmon

Photo by ブルーノ・プラス (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Togi Hassaku Festival

To meet the goddess, the god crossed by portable shrine.That, it is said, is how the festival began.

A god who drifted ashore at Masuhogaura (増穂浦) is said to have been rescued by the goddess of Sumiyoshi Shrine, and the two became husband and wife. Once each year, on the first day of the eighth lunar month, he is said to have crossed by portable shrine to meet her — the beginning, it is said, of the Togi Hassaku Festival. In 2025, on August 23–24, the tradition of Oyado (御宿), in which the shrine spends a night at a chosen villager's house, was carried on.

Said to recall a god and goddess meeting once a year at Masuhogaura
A rite held on the first day of the eighth lunar month
Carried out on August 23–24, 2025

02 ／ Former Fukura Lighthouse

A white lighthouse tops a sea cliff.An ink inscription named the carpenter who built it.

Built in 1876 by Hino Kichisaburo, this wooden lighthouse stands about 5 meters tall on a clifftop overlooking Fukura Port. Its three-story interior guided ships for 76 years, until 1952. The name of the carpenter who built it was identified only in recent years, from an ink inscription found on a ridge beam.

Built in 1876 (Meiji 9)
About 5 meters tall, wooden, three stories inside
Guided ships until 1952, for 76 years

03 ／ Yoshitsune no Funekakushi / Yase no Dangai

A cove said to have hidden 48 boats.A narrow inlet, hard to see from the open sea.

Fleeing his brother Minamoto no Yoritomo, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and his retainers are said to have hidden their boats in this cove on their way to Oshu — a narrow inlet hard to see from the open sea, said to have concealed as many as 48 boats. Next to it rises Yase no Dangai (ヤセの断崖), a 35-meter cliff linked by a footpath.

Said to date from 1185, when Yoshitsune's party hid their boats here
Said to have hidden as many as 48 boats
The neighboring cliff, Yase no Dangai, rises 35 meters

Living here

A 460.9-meter bench lines Masuhogaura beach.

about 20,000 people
Rural district town

Along Masuhogaura Coast (増穂浦), a 460.9-meter bench runs beside the sea, built in 1987 by some 830 local volunteers who wanted visitors to watch the sun set into the Sea of Japan. Listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1989 under the name "world's longest bench" (世界一長いベンチ), it remains a favorite spot for watching the sunset.

People living here: 18,630people
Area: 246.76km²
Households: 7,447households
Rent (average for rentals): 34,467yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 12 clinics

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

Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2005-09-01 に新設合併（富来町）。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。

Children waiting for childcare: —6 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 5 municipalities.

Shika Town in Japan37.006°N 136.778°E

Territory of Shika Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

32.1km

羽咋市, 七尾市, 中能登町, 穴水町, 輪島市

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

Shika Town isthis kind of town.

01Shika faces the outer coast of the Noto Peninsula, where waves have carved a sea cave known as Ganmon (巌門).
02In the Togi district, a tradition called the Togi Hassaku Festival (冨木八朔祭礼) is carried on once a year, in which a god crosses by portable shrine to meet a goddess.
03A wooden lighthouse built in 1876 stands above Fukura Port, and at Masuhogaura a 460.9-meter bench, once listed as the "world's longest," looks out over the sunset.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Shika Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗