• Unique sportive bicycle tour on the Noto Peninsula. An amazing route you won't find in the guide books, to explore the timeless Japanese countryside with typical Noto houses and rice paddies, a traditionnal salt farm and Senmaida "1000 terraced rice paddies".
• Noto has become one of the most popular cycling destination in Japan, among Japanese weekenders, or 1 week + bicycle tours operated by foreign companies. Unfortunately, being a remote countryside area, there is yet no facility for independant travelers to rent a good bicycle and enjoy the peninsula the best way possible.
• With this tour, I will bring you to the most rewarding route for an unforgetable day in Noto, using high quality, light weight hybrid bicycles (no e-bike).
• I have been living in the Wajima countryside for over 5 years, where I have been learning about local history and culture, while working at a traditional salt farm; more recently as a local guide, and as a cycling guide with Great Explorations.

Roughly 60 km (788m uphill) cycling through a various landscapes in the Noto Peninsula. Start with a ride through the Okubo valley, the most medieval part of Noto with remaining traditional houses surrounded by rice paddies. Cross a luxuriant mountain to Kanakura, one of the 100 beautiful Sato (mountain village) in Japan. Ride downhill to the Sotoura coast which still features many sights heritated from its past. Witness a 500 hundreds year old salt farming method, and stop by the emblematic Sennmaida rice terraces on the way back to Wajima.