南砺 (Nanto)

南砺 (Nanto) is a city of 57 thousand,¹ formed in 2004, and located well south of the Noto Peninsula of Honsh in Toyama Prefecture, on Honshū Island in ⽇夲 (Nippon or Japan). The city was created in 2004 out of several settlements including Taira and Kamitaira. These last have some of the traditional steep-roofed houses that are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site called "Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama."²

External references

Traditional houses in Nanto, Nippon (Japan)

Footnotes

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Japan, accessed 3/25/2014.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_Villages_of_Shirakawa-g%C5%8D_and_Gokayama, accessed 3/25/2014.