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Shika, Ishikawa

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Country
  
Japan

Area
  
246.6 km²

Local time
  
Saturday 9:56 PM

District
  
Hakui District, Ishikawa

Region
  
Chūbu Hokuriku

Population
  
23,177 (Aug 2011)

Prefecture
  
Ishikawa Prefecture

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Time zone
  
Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

City hall address
  
1-1 Sueyoshi Senko, Shika-machi, Hakui-gun, Ishikawa-ken 925-0198

Website
  
www.town.shika.ishikawa.jp

Weather
  
4°C, Wind NE at 18 km/h, 72% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Shikanosato Hot Spring, Fukiageno Falls, Sakuragai Museum, Bijozan

Shika (志賀町, Shika-machi) is a town in Hakui District, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. It is one and a half hours from Kanazawa by car. National highway 249 goes through Shika.

Map of Shika, Hakui District, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

As of August 2011, the town has a registered population of 23,177. The total area is 246.55 km².

On September 1, 2005, the former town of Togi was merged into the town.

There are two nuclear power stations in Shika.

A natural feature of Shika is the Ganmon caves.

On January 9, 2015 a resident reported a wooden boat to the local police, which was washed up on the shore. Due to Hangul characters on the boat it was suspected to be from North Korea. The police arrested one man on the boat, who claimed he had left North Korea unintended in mid-December 2014 when conducting an inspection of the boat.

References

Shika, Ishikawa Wikipedia