The Higashi Chaya District has flourished as a hanamachi (entertainment district) since the Edo era and the sound of shamisen and drums being played by geisha sometimes emerges from between the latticed windows taking passers-by into the past.
Noto was already a key stop on the transport routes to the Tohoku district as well as being a gateway to China and other Asian countries by around the 7th or 8th centuries.
Wajima, at the center of the Okunoto area and facing the Sea of Japan was the focal point of local commerce and trade after villages were created in the area as long ago as the Jomon period (10,000 BC-the 4th century BC).
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