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Snow-covered peaks above a dark alpine lake on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route

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Ishikawa, in the Hokuriku region. Producers are still being researched.

Regional context image (photographed in Tateyama, Toyama)Photo: lumoplank / Public domain

REGIONAL CONTEXT

Alpine snow and the Sea of Japan wind.

Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui. Snow from the Northern Alps and Mount Hakusan flows down as rivers to the plains, shaping life alongside a harsh Sea of Japan winter.

HokkaidoAomoriIwateMiyagiAkitaYamagataFukushimaIbarakiTochigiGunmaSaitamaChibaTokyoKanagawaNiigataToyamaIshikawaFukuiYamanashiNaganoGifuShizuokaAichiMieShigaKyotoOsakaHyogoNaraWakayamaTottoriShimaneOkayamaHiroshimaYamaguchiTokushimaKagawaEhimeKochiFukuokaSagaNagasakiKumamotoOitaMiyazakiKagoshimaOkinawa
ISHIKAWAN 36.59°  E 136.63°

Producers here are still being researched. We do not display categories that aren't on record.

Geographical Indications

  • GI HakusanSAKE · 2005-12-22

SOURCES

  1. 1酒類の地理的表示一覧国税庁 National Tax Agency · Government · accessed 2026-09-26

PHOTO CREDITS

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  1. 1Snowy mountains — lumoplank · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons