Suzu City

A lighthouse Japanese engineers built.

Rokkozaki Lighthouse

Photo by Qurren (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Agehama salt-making

About 600 liters of seawater,scattered over 40 minutes.

At the salt fields in Shimizu-cho, Suzu, seawater drawn from Nii Beach is scattered over the sand by hand -- about 600 liters in about 40 minutes. Dried in the sun for around 8 hours, the salty sand is rinsed in a tareobune trough and the brine boiled down in kettles. The technique was named a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property in 2008.

Mar. 13, 2008: named a National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property
About 600 liters of seawater yields 120kg of salt
Dried in the sun about 8 hours, then rinsed in a tareobune trough

02 ／ Iida-machi Toroyama Festival

16 meters tall, toppedwith a 6-meter doll.

飯田町燈籠山祭り3.jpg — Photo by Guritogura1 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

The summer festival of Kasuga Shrine in Iida-machi, Suzu, is said to date from the Kan'ei era of the Edo period. The toroyama float stands 16 meters tall and weighs about 5 tons, topped with a doll about 6 meters high. Eight lacquered floats join it, parading through town. In 2025 it was held on July 20 and 21.

Said to date from the Kan'ei era
The toroyama: 16m tall, about 5 tons, its doll about 6m
Joined by eight fully lacquered floats

03 ／ Aenokoto

Rice-cake flowers offeredto send the field god off.

Masayuki Urano, a farmer in the Takanami district of Misaki-machi, Suzu, carries on his grandfather's Aenokoto. The field god, welcomed from the rice paddies in December, is offered rice-cake flowers and other gifts in February before being sent back to the fields. In 2026, the public was invited to join on February 17 and 18.

Held in the Takanami district of Misaki-machi, Suzu
The god is welcomed in December, sent to the fields in February
The public was invited to join on Feb. 17-18, 2026

Living here

A town facing the sea, at the peninsula's tip.

about 10,000 people

Along about 60km of coastline, artisans here carve shichirin charcoal braziers from diatomaceous earth dug from the ground. At the cape where Rokkozaki Lighthouse stands, sunrise from the sea and sunset into it can be seen from the same spot.

People living here: 12,929people
Area: 247.2km²
Households: 5,517households
Rent (average for rentals): 38,451yen
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 10 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —8 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 2 municipalities.

Suzu City in Japan37.436°N 137.261°E

Territory of Suzu City

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

27.2km

能登町, 輪島市

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

Suzu City isthis kind of town.

01Rokkozaki Lighthouse, on the cape, was built in 1883 (Meiji 16) under the lead of Japanese engineers. At the salt fields in Shimizu-cho, the agehama salt-making technique is still carried on.
02Suzu City sits at the tip of the Noto Peninsula, its coastline running about 60km. Artisans here carve shichirin braziers from diatomaceous earth dug from the ground.
03In Iida-machi, the Toroyama Festival brings out a 16-meter float. In the Takanami district of Misaki-machi, the Aenokoto rite is still handed down.

See the town as it is now.

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

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