is a
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a na ...
located on the northern shores of the
Hokuriku region
The was located in the northwestern part of Honshu, the main island of Japan. It lay along the Sea of Japan within the Chūbu region, which it is currently a part of. It is almost equivalent to Koshi Province and Hokurikudō area in pre-mod ...
of
Honshu
, historically called , is the largest and most populous island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island s ...
,
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
on the
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, i ...
. The bay borders
Toyama and
Ishikawa prefectures. The bay is known for the
mirage
A mirage is a naturally-occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays bend via refraction to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to English via the French ''(se) mirer'', from the Latin ''mirari'', meanin ...
s on the horizon during the winter months and for being a spawning ground for the
firefly squid. It is also one of Japan's three largest bays.
Parts of the bay are within the borders of the
Noto Hantō Quasi-National Park
is a quasi-national park covering a portion of Noto Peninsula of Ishikawa Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture in Japan. It is rated a protected landscape (category V) according to the IUCN.
in the northern half of Ishikawa Prefecture, extends a ...
.
Geography
Border communities
;Toyama Prefecture
:
Kurobe
is a city in Toyama Prefecture, in the Chūbu region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 41,564 in 15,387 households and a population density of 95.8 persons per km². Its total area was .
Geography
Kurobe is located in northeas ...
,
Uozu,
Namerikawa,
Toyama,
Imizu
270px, Tonami-yotaka festival held in June
is a city located in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 93,447 in 37,734 households and a population density of 850 persons per km². Its total area was .
Geography
I ...
,
Takaoka,
Himi
;Ishikawa Prefecture
:
Nanao
Rivers
Kurobe River,
Jōganji River,
Jinzū River,
Shō River, etc.
References
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Bays of Japan
Bays of the Sea of Japan
Landforms of Toyama Prefecture
Landforms of Ishikawa Prefecture